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:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111104T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4269-1320393600-1320426000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Smart\, Energy Producing and Healthy Homes: Eight European Experiments\, Nov 4 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n Abstract: \n Ms. Hansen has been responsible for interdisciplinary building and research projects based on defining\, testing and communicating Active House\, a vision of buildings that ‘give more than they take’. The basis of the project involves eight national and international buildings\, together with the companies VELUX\, VELFAC and Sonnenkraft. The aim is to find methods and examples of how to improve quality of life in future energy-producing buildings. Ellen was project manager on the first house and kindergarden built according to the Active House principals\, ‘Home for Life’ and ‘Solhuset’. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/smart-energy-producing-and-healthy-homes-eight-european-experiments-nov-4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4270-1320825600-1320858000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Getting UAVs Off Their Bottoms (with Flexrotor)\, Nov 9 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \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 \n Abstract: \n UAVs have a record of note for \n Disappointing the civil promotor. \n What has always been lost? \n A great need for low cost! \n A solution\, perhaps\, is Flexrotor. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/getting-uavs-off-their-bottoms-with-flexrotor-nov-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4271-1320825600-1320858000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Building a 10\,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages\, Nov 9 DESCRIPTION:The Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation is working to build an open public digital collection of all human language as well as an analog backup that can last for thousands of years–The Rosetta Disk. In the “long now\,” the goal is long-term storage and access to information–on the scale that both supports and transcends individual human societies and civilizations. In the “here and now” the project serves to support and amplify the importance of the world’s nearly 7\,000 human languages\, the vast majority of which are endangered and\, if current trends continue\, likely to go extinct in the next 100 years. I’ll present our current work on the Rosetta Project Collection and Disk as well as some new initiatives including the “Language Commons” where we are working to help build the multilingual Web. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/building-a-10000-year-archive-of-all-human-languages-nov-9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4272-1320825600-1320858000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Building a 10\,000 Year Archive of All Human Languages\, Nov 9 DESCRIPTION:The Rosetta Project at The Long Now Foundation is working to build an open public digital collection of all human language as well as an analog backup that can last for thousands of years–The Rosetta Disk. In the “long now\,” the goal is long-term storage and access to information–on the scale that both supports and transcends individual human societies and civilizations. In the “here and now” the project serves to support and amplify the importance of the world’s nearly 7\,000 human languages\, the vast majority of which are endangered and\, if current trends continue\, likely to go extinct in the next 100 years. I’ll present our current work on the Rosetta Project Collection and Disk as well as some new initiatives including the “Language Commons” where we are working to help build the multilingual Web. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/building-a-10000-year-archive-of-all-human-languages-nov-9-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4273-1320912000-1320944400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Current State of Hydroclimate Modeling and Ability to Predict Floods\, Droughts and Extreme Events\, Nov 10 DESCRIPTION:———- \n CITRIS’s Intelligent Water Infrastructure for California initiative will create a state-wide information ‘infrastructure’ that will enable the better management of the state’s limited water resources and save California money by averting the need for new water storage facilities. \n ————— \n Abstract: \n Hydrologists and Water Resource planners require information about future hydroclimatic conditions to guide them in their decision making process. Depending on the timescale\, a variety of mathematical models has been developed and are being used. Regional climate models are used with longer time scales\, ranging from seasons to decades while information from Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)models are often employed to help with shorter time scale forecasts (days to weeks). The output of such models is then used as input to hydrologic models for a variety of applications\, including flood forecasting. \n This presentation reviews the state of the current capabilities of the above mentioned models in terms of their predication skill and their level of usefulness for operational hydrologic and water resources decision making. Examples related to each of these modeling timescales will be discussed with specific focus on the needs of arid and semi-arid regions. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/current-state-of-hydroclimate-modeling-and-ability-to-predict-floods-droughts-and-extreme-events-nov-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111110T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4274-1320912000-1320944400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Cleantech Entrepreneurship Forum\, Nov 10 DESCRIPTION:Hear some of the leaders in today’s cleantech space discuss how an idea becomes a product and what it takes to make company successful! The panelists are Jennifer Indovina of Tenrehte Technologies\, Rick Winter of Primus Power\, and Brooks Kincaid of Imprint Energy. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cleantech-entrepreneurship-forum-nov-10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111116T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4275-1321430400-1321462800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Investing in Innovation for More Affordable\, Accessible Health Care\, Nov 16 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \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 \n Abstract: \n Health care in America has increasingly priced itself out of the reach of customers. Employers and individuals have long complained about the system’s lack of affordability. And the payer of last resort-government-is now facing the same reality. \n Indeed\, the current debate over how to manage the country’s deficit has produced a striking milestone in American politics: Both sides of the aisle now agree on the need to dramatically rein in government health spending. The argument today is not about whether to cut costs\, but about how. \n Many schools of thought cast innovation as the principal problem in health care. They assert that the quest for the latest new gizmos\, without regard to value\, has brought the nation to this point. While there is no question that high-cost\, low-value products and services have been created in the name of innovation\, we believe that bold new clinical and business models\, often aided by technical breakthroughs\, are instead a vital part of the answer. \n Our experiences in the field have led us to create the CHCF Health Innovation Fund. This three-year\, $10 million effort is dedicated to identifying and investing in both nonprofit and for-profit companies developing technologies and services that have the potential to create a dramatic impact on the cost and accessibility of care. As we developed the fund\, we paid close attention to the creative approaches of other health-care foundations in this area. While most impact investing in health care to date has been from foundations working internationally\, we see a growing interest among social investors and entrepreneurs in tackling health-care costs and inequities inside the United States. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/investing-in-innovation-for-more-affordable-accessible-health-care-nov-16/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4276-1321516800-1321549200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Building a Smarter Planet talk by IBM\, Nov 17 DESCRIPTION:Refreshments will be provided. \n Abstract: \n Dr. Meyerson will introduce IBM Smarter Planet solutions\, where natural and engineered systems can be made “smarter” with the use of information and systems technology. Systems such as Water\, Transportation\, Energy and Healthcare can be instrumented\, analyzed and optimized to make cleaner water\, less congested traffic\, cost-efficient energy\, and safer food and healthcare. \n Now\, we need to know what to do next. How do you infuse intelligence into a system for which no one enterprise or agency is responsible? How do you bring all the necessary constituents together? Our companies\, our cities and our world are complex systems—indeed\, systems of systems—that requirenew things of us as leaders\, as workers and as citizens. A smarter planet will require a profound shift in management and governance toward far more collaborative approaches. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/building-a-smarter-planet-talk-by-ibm-nov-17/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111117T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4277-1321516800-1321549200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Internet and Democracy\, Nov 17 DESCRIPTION:Are the insurgencies spawned in the “Arab Spring” riding a wave borne by the Internet\, or are the new information technologies more likely to subvert those very movements? Evgeny Morozov\, Internet-savvy analyst of social protest\, doubts that the new media necessarily represent “technologies of freedom.” Instead\, he argues in his new book The Net Delusion\, repressive regimes may use social networking sites and other digital media to track and subvert popular causes. On November 17\, Dissent magazine and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues’ Center for Research on Social Change will present “The Internet and Democracy\,” a forum featuring Morozov and Jillian York of the Electronic Freedom Foundation in a dialogue on what democratic movements all over the world can expect from the new technologies. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-internet-and-democracy-nov-17/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4278-1321603200-1321635600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Reducing Peak Load on Campus: Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response in Sutardja Dai Hall\, Nov 18 DESCRIPTION:Live broadcast at \n . Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n Abstract: \n The Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response (DIADR) management system has intelligent optimization and control algorithms for demand management\, taking into account many factors affecting cost: comfort\, HVAC\, lighting\, and other building systems\, climate\, and usage/occupancy patterns. \n The goal of the two year project is to demonstrate an innovative DR management system on a typical commercial building to achieve 30% demand reduction while still maintaining the building as a healthy\, productive\, and comfortable environment for the building occupants. In addition to centralized building energy management\, this project features distributed intelligent control via various load control gateways that manage end devices\, such as computers\, printers\, and task lighting. \n The selected building\, Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus\, is a relatively new building (opened Feb 2009) and houses the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley. This building has a Siemens Apogee Building Automation System and WattStopper lighting system. Progress thus far has been \n . Outlining the functional requirements \n . Development\, installation and demonstration of the Siemens Smart Energy Box (SEB) to receive demand response signals from the Demand Response \n Automated Server (DRAS) at LBNL and automatically generate a DR response (thermostat setpoint change) in the test office. \n . Developing and testing the Service Oriented Architecture (distributed load control gateway) \n . Developing and simulating central and distributed load control algorithms. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/reducing-peak-load-on-campus-distributed-intelligent-automated-demand-response-in-sutardja-dai-hall-nov-18/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111121T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111121T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4279-1321862400-1321894800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Networked Journalism and a Public Right to Hear in an Age of Newsware and APIs\, Nov 21 DESCRIPTION:What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments\, and why does such a right matter? In this talk I’ll describe how this right to hear has\, in part\, historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press’s claims to autonomy and\, more fundamentally\, models of democratic freedom. I’ll trace how this right appears in contemporary networked news production\, and show how three networked news organizations have used Application Programming Interfaces to simultaneously listen to and distance themselves from their readers. A modern public right to hear — and thus the press’s claims to autonomy — depends\, in part\, upon networked technologies and practices that mediate among different groups and professions struggling for identity and legitimacy through what Bowker and Star (1999) call “boundary infrastructures.” It is through these technosocial systems — powerful yet often invisible infrastructures that I call “newsware” — that the contemporary\, institutional press signals how it is willing to listen to\, with\, and for publics. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/networked-journalism-and-a-public-right-to-hear-in-an-age-of-newsware-and-apis-nov-21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111121T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111121T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4280-1321862400-1321894800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:ATC Lecture: Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape\, Marc Horowitz\, Nov 21 DESCRIPTION:Marc Horowitz is an interdisciplinary artist\, working primarily in performance\, video and installation. The central concerns driving most of his work have to do with engaging strangers in public and on the internet around absurdist principles. These projects engage in a dialog with a diverse range of subjects including entertainment\, advertising\, architectural environments\, commerce and the quest for daily meaning. Marc says that he is “constantly making lists of potential inventions\, neologisms\, moneymaking schemes\, jokes\, drawings\, websites\, characters and impromptu videos. It is my hope that my work speaks to “the moment\,” that it might reflect and critique American idealism\, expansionism\, and capitalism; that it might parody pop culture so successfully it becomes re-appropriated by it.” \n Marc Horowitz will discuss how contemporary information technologies\, i.e. smart phones\, youtube\, social media sites\, are changing the way we make and consume art and entertainment. \n Marc Horowitz is many things: a virtual cross country explorer\, a comedic performance enthusiast\, sheep shearer\, social experimentalist\, one of People Magazine’s 50 most eligible bachelors\, and possibly the first would-be inventor of a brick-house\, diesel-truck\, hybrid helicopter. \n One of his recent digital adventures landed him on NPR’s Weekend Edition – discussing the Los Angeles to Richmond\, Virginia road trip he and friend\, Peter Baldes\, took via Google Maps without ever leaving their homes. Prior to that\, Marc was challenged to live 168 hours straight in a Nissan Sentra for the “Seven Days in a Sentra” national ad campaign. \n Before his Nissan project\, Marc spent the better part of an entire year traveling around the country having dinner with strangers he met out of a Crate & Barrel catalog. After that\, he drove the shape of his coast-to-coast signature on a US map\, improving towns along the way. These improvements include starting an Anonymous Semi-Nudist Colony in Nampa\, Idaho and burying an entire town’s problems in Craig\, Colorado. \n Other projects include: “www.theadviceofstrangers.com” with Creative Time\, where Marc lived his life through the advice of strangers as he surrendered his life choices online for the public to vote on; the Talkshow247 internet broadcast\, a 24/7 three-month long lifecast; his involvement with The Center for Improved Living\, “The Me & You Show” at the Hayward Gallery\, “Marc Horowitz Saves America” MTV pilot; the Human Video Game Experiment; and well\, you get the idea. Marc is a busy man\, with many talents. His work can be seen on his site www.ineedtostopsoon.com. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/atc-lecture-performance-and-humor-in-the-new-media-landscape-marc-horowitz-nov-21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4281-1322640000-1322672400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Dataflow Computing for Data-intensive Applications\, Nov 30 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \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/dataflow-computing-for-data-intensive-applications-nov-30/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4282-1322812800-1322845200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Technology Demonstration Success Stories from the PIER Program: Making End-Use Efficiency Happen\, Dec 2 DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\, the i4Energy Speaker Series is a weekly roundtable of lectures and discussions that highlight these research issues. All talks take place at noon on Fridays in 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus\, unless otherwise indicated. \n Live broadcast at \n . Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n The California Energy Commission (CEC) Public interest Energy Research (PIER) Program has produced many high efficiency end-use technologies capable of substantially reducing energy use\, costs\, and environmental impacts. The State Partnership for Energy Efficient Demonstrations (SPEED) Program is one of the key connections to the market for the PIER Program\, proving technology in the field\, providing feedback to the product development process\, and piloting technology deployment toward achieving energy efficiency at scale. \n Karl Brown is the Director of the SPEED Program and Deputy Director of the California Institute for Energy and Environment. Karl will describe the SPEED team coordinated by CIEE\, summarize the extensive portfolio of demonstrations\, and mark progress toward achieving the market potential of demonstrated technologies in California. Karl will also provide three technology success stories illustrating the diverse and nimble approaches the Program takes in advancing technology adoption. \n ————————- URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/technology-demonstration-success-stories-from-the-pier-program-making-end-use-efficiency-happen-dec-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4284-1323158400-1323190800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Mobile Entrepreneurship at Cal – IEOR 190E Final Showcase and Competition\, Dec 6 DESCRIPTION:Join us as Berkeley’s eight newest mobile startups show off their apps and fight for a chance to defend UC Berkeley’s title at the international University Mobile Challenge at Barcelona. Help your favorite team win the coveted Audience Choice award! \n IEOR 190E – “Mobile Applications and Entrepreneurship” is a course at Berkeley that aims to bridge the gap between academia and business. Through the course of a semester\, teams of 4-5 students each create a mobile-based business and prototype their technology. At\nthe\nconclusion\n of\nthe\n course\,\neach\nteam\n will\npitch\n their\ncompany\n to\na\npanel\n of\n VCs\n and\n angel investors. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/mobile-entrepreneurship-at-cal-ieor-190e-final-showcase-and-competition-dec-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4285-1323158400-1323190800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Mobile Entrepreneurship at Cal – IEOR 190E Final Showcase and Competition\, Dec 6 DESCRIPTION:Join us as Berkeley’s eight newest mobile startups show off their apps and fight for a chance to defend UC Berkeley’s title at the international University Mobile Challenge at Barcelona. Help your favorite team win the coveted Audience Choice award! \n IEOR 190E – “Mobile Applications and Entrepreneurship” is a course at Berkeley that aims to bridge the gap between academia and business. Through the course of a semester\, teams of 4-5 students each create a mobile-based business and prototype their technology. At\nthe\nconclusion\n of\nthe\n course\,\neach\nteam\n will\npitch\n their\ncompany\n to\na\npanel\n of\n VCs\n and\n angel investors. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/mobile-entrepreneurship-at-cal-ieor-190e-final-showcase-and-competition-dec-6-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111206T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4283-1323158400-1323190800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Swarm Lab Inauguration\, Dec 6 DESCRIPTION:On December 6\, we celebrate the official inauguration of the Center with a “Swarm Visions” session in the morning followed by a poster and demo session in the afternoon\, as well as a ribbon cutting ceremony presided over by Paul Jacobs\, CEO of Qualcomm Inc. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/swarm-lab-inauguration-dec-6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4286-1323244800-1323277200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Saving the World Together\, One Server at a Time\, Dec 7 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \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 \n Abstract: \n Power and energy management\, and more recently environmental sustainability\, are emerging as central issues in systems design. The next order-of-magnitude improvements in these areas will come from rethinking how we approach and optimize energy efficiency — “holistically” across traditional design boundaries. This talk will discuss such optimizations from the data-centric data center project at HP Labs\, specifically focusing on two examples — “dematerialized datacenters” and “nanostores”. These designs\, cross-cutting the sustainability\, technology\, architecture\, and software communities\, can achieve significant improvements in energy efficiency (10X-50X). \n Bio: Partha Ranganathan is a Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs where he currently leads a large initiative on future data-centric data centers. His research interests are in systems architecture and manageability\, energy-efficiency\, and systems modeling and evaluation. He has done extensive work in these areas including key contributions around energy-aware user interfaces\, heterogeneous multi-core processors\, power capping and power-aware server designs\, federated enterprise power management\, energy modeling and benchmarking\, disaggregated blade server architectures\, and most recently\, storage hierarchy and systems redesign for non-volatile memory. He was also one of the primary developers of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM). Dr. Ranganathan’s work has led to several commercial products and has been featured in various venues including the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Business Week\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Times of India\, Slashdot\, Youtube\, and Tom’s hardware guide. Dr. Ranganathan has been named one of the world’s top young innovators by MIT Technology Review\, and has been recognized with several other awards including Rice University’s Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award. Dr. Ranganathan received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University\, Houston. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/saving-the-world-together-one-server-at-a-time-dec-7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111207T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4287-1323244800-1323277200@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:CITRIS Holiday Gala\, Dec 7 DESCRIPTION:Please mark your calendars for an exciting event at Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley on Wednesday\, December 7th: the annual Holiday Gala at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-holiday-gala-dec-7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4288-1323331200-1323363600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Digital We at the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS\, Dec 8 DESCRIPTION:The Social Apps Lab focuses on creating mobile applications that use elements of gameplay to motivate citizen learning\, civic action\, and crowdsourced solutions for social problems. The Digital We examines the premises\, prospects\, and projects of this kind of social media production through a day of workshops and public discussions. The directors of the Social Apps Lab will present several new projects\, including CitySandbox\, DengueTorpedo\, Pathways\, and BingoType. \n Join us for – \n Workshops with presentations from: \n • Chris Kelty – UC Los Angeles\, Department of Information Studies \n • Kacper Poblocki – University of Poznan\, Department of Anthropology \n • Warren Sack – UC Santa Cruz\, Program of Digital Arts and New Media \n • Artur Celinski – Res Publica\, Warsaw \n • Marina Gorbis – Institute for the Future\, Palo Alto \n • Heather Horst – UC Irvine\, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub \n Roundtable Discussion about Interdisciplinary Initiatives and University-City Projects with: \n • Paul Wright – UC Berkeley\, Director of CITRIS \n • Carla Hesse – UC Berkeley\, Dean of Social Sciences \n • Anthony Cascardi – UC Berkeley\, Dean of Arts and Humanities \n • Gordon Wozniak – City of Berkeley Councilmember \n Demo of Recent Projects at the Social Apps Lab: \n • James Holston\, Co-Director \n • Greg Niemeyer\, Co-Director \n • URAP Students at the Social Apps Lab \n And Dialogues with: \n • Artur Celinski – Res Publica\, Warsaw \n • Ken Goldberg – UC Berkeley\, Dept of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research \n • Marina Gorbis – Institute for the Future\, Palo Alto \n • Heather Horst – UC Irvine\, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub \n • Josefina Coloma – Sustainable Science Institute & UC Berkeley School of Public Health \n • Terry Deacon – UC Berkeley\, Department of Anthropology \n • Faraz Farzin – Stanford\, Department of Psychology \n • Kacper Poblocki – University of Poznan\, Department of Anthropology \n • Bill Satariano – UC Berkeley School of Public Health URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-digital-we-at-the-social-apps-lab-at-citris-dec-8/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111208T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4289-1323331200-1323363600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:The Digital We at the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS\, Dec 8 DESCRIPTION:The Social Apps Lab focuses on creating mobile applications that use elements of gameplay to motivate citizen learning\, civic action\, and crowdsourced solutions for social problems. The Digital We examines the premises\, prospects\, and projects of this kind of social media production through a day of workshops and public discussions. The directors of the Social Apps Lab will present several new projects\, including CitySandbox\, DengueTorpedo\, Pathways\, and BingoType. \n Join us for – \n Workshops with presentations from: \n • Chris Kelty – UC Los Angeles\, Department of Information Studies \n • Kacper Poblocki – University of Poznan\, Department of Anthropology \n • Warren Sack – UC Santa Cruz\, Program of Digital Arts and New Media \n • Artur Celinski – Res Publica\, Warsaw \n • Marina Gorbis – Institute for the Future\, Palo Alto \n • Heather Horst – UC Irvine\, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub \n Roundtable Discussion about Interdisciplinary Initiatives and University-City Projects with: \n • Paul Wright – UC Berkeley\, Director of CITRIS \n • Carla Hesse – UC Berkeley\, Dean of Social Sciences \n • Anthony Cascardi – UC Berkeley\, Dean of Arts and Humanities \n • Gordon Wozniak – City of Berkeley Councilmember \n Demo of Recent Projects at the Social Apps Lab: \n • James Holston\, Co-Director \n • Greg Niemeyer\, Co-Director \n • URAP Students at the Social Apps Lab \n And Dialogues with: \n • Artur Celinski – Res Publica\, Warsaw \n • Ken Goldberg – UC Berkeley\, Dept of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research \n • Marina Gorbis – Institute for the Future\, Palo Alto \n • Heather Horst – UC Irvine\, Digital Media and Learning Research Hub \n • Josefina Coloma – Sustainable Science Institute & UC Berkeley School of Public Health \n • Terry Deacon – UC Berkeley\, Department of Anthropology \n • Faraz Farzin – Stanford\, Department of Psychology \n • Kacper Poblocki – University of Poznan\, Department of Anthropology \n • Bill Satariano – UC Berkeley School of Public Health URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/the-digital-we-at-the-social-apps-lab-at-citris-dec-8-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120110T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120110T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4290-1326182400-1326214800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Siemens PLM NX CAE Training\, Jan 10-11\, 2012 DESCRIPTION:RSVP is Required \n This training program is open to all four CITRIS campuses (UC Berkeley\, Davis\, Merced and Santa Cruz) and LBNL. Space is very limited. \n Tuesday\, January 10 \n Lecturer: Louis Komzsik\, Chief Numerical Analyst \n Fundamentals of NASTRAN \n Coordinate systems \n Constraints and boundary conditions \n Loads \n Finite elements \n Solutions \n Wednesday\, January 11 \n Lecturer: Marilyn Tomlin\, Advanced Application Engineer \n Introduction to Advanced Simulation \n Simulation Navigator \n Selecting entities \n Model preparation \n Basic meshing techniques \n Boundary conditions \n Solving \n Post-processing techniques URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/siemens-plm-nx-cae-training-jan-10-11-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4291-1327305600-1327338000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Regents Lecture: Howard Rheingold\, Jan 23 DESCRIPTION:Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create\, deliver\, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. Rheingold proposes that our intention should be to teach ourselves how to teach ourselves online\, and to share what we learn. He will show how the use of social media in courses he has taught about social media issues led him to co-redesign his curriculum\, which led to more active participation by students in co-teaching the course. \n Rheingold is an independent scholar and currently a guest lecturer at Stanford’s Department of Communication. A writer and designer\, he was among the first wave of creative thinkers who saw\, in computers and then in the Internet\, a way to form powerful new communities. \n His 2002 book “Smart Mobs”\, which presaged Web 2.0 in predicting collaborative ventures like Wikipedia\, was the outgrowth of decades spent studying and living life online. An early and active member of the Well (he wrote about it in “The Virtual Community”)\, he went on to co-found HotWired and Electric Minds\, two groundbreaking web communities\, in the mid-1990s. Now active in Second Life\, he teaches\, writes and consults on social networking. His latest passion: teaching and workshopping participatory media literacy\, to make sure we all know how to read and make the new media that we’re all creating together. \n This lecture is presented by UC’s Berkeley Center for New Media with support from the Regents’ Professorships and Lectureships Program. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley School of Information. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/regents-lecture-howard-rheingold-jan-23/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120125T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4292-1327478400-1327510800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:From Information to Foresight: Getting Beyond the Bits\, Jan 25 DESCRIPTION:All talks may be viewed on our \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 \n Abstract: \n Data volumes are sky-rocketing\, and new sources and types of information are proliferating; we can now track and obtain data faster than ever before. But data is only of value if you can extract insight from it – insights that let you solve your challenges\, improve your processes\, attract new clients\, and be more nimble in your business. There is a real opportunity to harness this data and gain insight to improve our world – but to do so\, we must do more than capture information. We must correlate and align information across sources\, extract meaning from it\, and leverage that meaning to create value. This talk will describe some of the challenges of capturing\, integrating\, and analyzing information and some of the progress that has been made in terms of runtimes and tools to support these tasks\, as well as some ongoing research in this space. We will highlight some successful applications of these technologies in a variety of fields\, and close with a proposal to work together to advance the state of the art in these technologies and in their application. \n Bio: \n Laura Haas is an IBM Fellow\, and Director of IBM Research’s new Institute for Massive Data\, Analytics and Modeling; she also serves as a “catalyst” for ambitious research across IBM’s worldwide research labs. She was the Director of Computer Science at IBM’s Almaden Research Center from 2005 to 2011. From 2001-2005\, she led the Information Integration Solutions architecture and development teams in IBM’s Software Group. Previously\, Dr. Haas was a research staff member and manager at Almaden. She is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor (from which DB2 LUW was developed)\, on Garlic\, a system which allowed integration of heterogeneous data sources\, and on Clio\, the first semi-automatic tool for heterogeneous schema mapping. She has received several IBM awards for Outstanding Innovation and Technical Achievement\, an IBM Corporate Award for her work on information integration technology\, and the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award. Dr. Haas was Vice President of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees from 2004-2009\, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the IBM Academy of Technology\, an ACM Fellow\, and Vice Chair of the board of the Computing Research Association. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/from-information-to-foresight-getting-beyond-the-bits-jan-25/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4293-1327651200-1327683600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Energy Savings with LEDs\, Jan 27 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1066 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n Abstract: \n Today lighting accounts for about 20% of the worldwide electricity consumption. Household lighting\, commercial lighting\, and street lighting are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions. Developments of new light emitting diodes (LED) can reduce the electricity consumption dedicated to lighting considerably. Light Emitting Diodes (LED) can become the perfect energy efficient substitute for the attractive but inefficient incandescent and halogen lighting. No other lighting technology can match the quality\, efficiency\, and lifetime of LED lighting. \n In contrast to incandescent bulbs that create light and heat from filaments\, LEDs convert electricity with high efficiency directly into visible light. However\, there are a number of technical problems such as low color rendering that have to be solved before LED lighting will make a complete breakthrough. The efficiency of LED’s has doubled every third year and LED’s will within the near future become more energy efficient than most efficient conventional lighting sources. In addition to the energy savings\, LED’s have a number of other advantages: small and compact emitters with high flux\, they are robust\, no emission of UV- or IR- radiation when used for visible illumination\, and a long lifetime (20.000 – 100.000 hours) provided proper thermal management. In the talk I will review the basic physics of LEDs and I will discuss the new possibilities that LEDs offer.Finally\, I will discuss a number of new applications of LEDs where energy savings can be obtained. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/energy-savings-with-leds-jan-27/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120127T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4294-1327651200-1327683600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Energy Savings with LEDs\, Jan 27 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1066 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n Abstract: \n Today lighting accounts for about 20% of the worldwide electricity consumption. Household lighting\, commercial lighting\, and street lighting are responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions. Developments of new light emitting diodes (LED) can reduce the electricity consumption dedicated to lighting considerably. Light Emitting Diodes (LED) can become the perfect energy efficient substitute for the attractive but inefficient incandescent and halogen lighting. No other lighting technology can match the quality\, efficiency\, and lifetime of LED lighting. \n In contrast to incandescent bulbs that create light and heat from filaments\, LEDs convert electricity with high efficiency directly into visible light. However\, there are a number of technical problems such as low color rendering that have to be solved before LED lighting will make a complete breakthrough. The efficiency of LED’s has doubled every third year and LED’s will within the near future become more energy efficient than most efficient conventional lighting sources. In addition to the energy savings\, LED’s have a number of other advantages: small and compact emitters with high flux\, they are robust\, no emission of UV- or IR- radiation when used for visible illumination\, and a long lifetime (20.000 – 100.000 hours) provided proper thermal management. In the talk I will review the basic physics of LEDs and I will discuss the new possibilities that LEDs offer.Finally\, I will discuss a number of new applications of LEDs where energy savings can be obtained. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/energy-savings-with-leds-jan-27-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120130T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4295-1327910400-1327942800@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:3rd Annual Workshop on Photonic Technologies and Applications\, Jan 30-31\, 2012 DESCRIPTION:CITRIS invites you to attend the 3rd Danish-Californian two-day workshop on Photonic Technologies and Applications @ UC Berkeley on January 30-31\, 2012. Together with Innovation Center Denmark\, we have partnered with the best and brightest scientists and industry experts from Denmark and California\, including partners from the Universities of California\, Stanford University\, Danish universities and industry. \n . \n Attendance is free\, however\, registration is mandatory and space is limited. Registered attendants are provided with free workshop material\, breakfast and lunch both days and a wine and snack reception as well as refreshments throughout the workshop. \n Registration Deadline is January 22\, 2012. \n . \n Photonics technologies is revolutionizing our daily life\, societies and industries around the globe. According to Photonic 21\, photonic technologies will enable solutions such as dramatically reducing global energy consumption of our future telecommunication systems\, higher capacity energy storage devices and many more. \n Experience the most influential experts from the industry and academia present the latest results in photonic technologies for nanolasers\, biophotonics\, optical communication system for hybrid wireless/wired access networks and video communication. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/3rd-annual-workshop-on-photonic-technologies-and-applications-jan-30-31-2012/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120201T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4296-1328083200-1328115600@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Open Source Robotics\, Feb 1 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \n Over the next 10 years\, personal robots (as opposed to industrial robots) have the potential to improve people’s lives by taking automation to a new level. Like personal computers of 30 years ago\, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex\, multidisciplinary field\, and fielding successful applications requires expertise ranging from hardware (mechanical and electrical) to social science. By working together on an open source software platform\, we can accelerate progress in the field and more quickly field successful applications. Willow Garage has partnered with Stanford University and many other top robotics laboratories around the world to create such an open source code base. The robot operating system\, ROS\, is quickly becoming the de facto platform for robotics research. I will argue that most if not all robotics companies should join the ROS bandwagon\, as a way to move the entire industry forward quickly. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/open-source-robotics-feb-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4297-1328169600-1328202000@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Community-Based Research Across Disciplines\, Feb 2 DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion with scholars from diverse disciplines whose research involves community collaboration.* How do notions of CBPR\, Engaged Scholarship\, PAR\, Community Engaged Planning\, etc. vary by discipline and department? How is such work conceptualized\, theorized and practiced in different fields? What current projects are faculty and graduate students working on? This workshop will seek to answer these questions through a panel discussion with faculty and graduate students from a diverse set of disciplines to share what engaged scholarship looks like in their field\, including examples from their own teaching and scholarship. \n **Snacks will be provided!** \n Panelists: \n • Christina Brandom (Doctoral Student\, School of Social Welfare) \n • Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch (Professor\, Environmental Science\, Policy and Management) \n • Dr. Na’ilah Suad Nasir (Professor\, Department of African American Studies) \n • Dr. Victoria Robinson (Lecturer\, Department of Ethnic Studies & Coordinator\, American Cultures Center) \n Advance RSVP is requested but not required — we want to get an estimate of the # attendees so we can provide enough food. Please RSVP to suzanakin@berkeley.edu. \n *Community-engaged scholarship goes by many different names: Community-based participatory research (CBPR); Participatory action research (PAR); Participatory planning; Service learning courses\, etc. Whatever terms we all use\, each involves collaborations with communities outside academia for research and/or teaching. \n This event is sponsored by the Cal Corps Public Service Center: http://publicservice.berkeley.edu. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/community-based-research-across-disciplines-feb-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073956 CREATED:20140202T090101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140202T090101Z UID:4298-1328256000-1328288400@citris-uc.org SUMMARY:Tackling the Load from Hell: Cooling Efficiency Research at UC Davis WCEC\, Feb 3 DESCRIPTION:The complete schedule for the semester is online at \n . All talks may be viewed on our \n Webviewing at UC Davis: 1007 Kemper Hall \n Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100 \n Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building\, Room 506 \n Abstract: \n The Western Cooling Efficiency Center was started about 5 years ago as the cornerstone of the Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California at Davis. The mission of the center is to effect change in the energy performance of cooling systems in hot dry climates like California\, in particular on the peak electricity demand associated with said cooling. This seminar will provide an overview of various research projects and initiatives at the WCEC. As rooftop packaged HVAC systems (RTUs) perform a large fraction of cooling and heating of non-residential buildings\, they were one of the first targets for Center. The seminar will cover the rationale and technical basis for the Western Cooling Challenge (WCC)\, which provides energy performance targets that are roughly 50% better than Department of Energy standards. Results of laboratory and field tests on WCC equipment will be presented\, as will a related initiative to improve the performance of RTUs that are not old enough to replace. Research topics that will be covered include recent work on the issues associated with small-scale\, on-site water use within cooling systems\, as well as two new research projects at the center: a) the use of encapsulated phase change materials in hydronic distribution systems\, and b) the application of an aerosol based technology for sealing leaks in building envelopes. URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/tackling-the-load-from-hell-cooling-efficiency-research-at-uc-davis-wcec-feb-3/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR