CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Wolfgang Ketter – FleetPower: Creating Virtual Power Plants in Sustainable Smart Electricity Markets
2017-03-20 15:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 3108 Etcheverry Hall, 3108 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Lecture | Monday, March 20, 2017 | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Speaker: Wolfgang Ketter, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
As the share of renewable energy becomes an increasing part of electricity generation, electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to be used as virtual power plants (VPP) to provide reliable back-up power. This could generate additional profits for EV carsharing rental firms. We design a computational control mechanism for VPPs that decide whether EVs should be charging, discharging, or rented out. We validate our computational design by developing a discrete-event simulation platform based on real-time GPS information from 1,100 electric cars from Daimlers carsharing service Car2Go in San Diego, Amsterdam, and Stuttgart. We compute trading prices (bids) for participating in secondary control reserve markets and investigate what effect the density of charging infrastructure, battery technology, and rental demand for vehicles have on the pay-off for the carsharing fleet. We show that VPPs can create sustainable revenue streams for electric vehicle carsharing fleets without compromising their rental business.
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Wolfgang Ketter is a Professor of Next Generation Information Systems at the Department of Technology and Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Professor Ketter is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group at Erasmus. The goal of this group is to research, develop and apply autonomous and mixed initiative intelligent agent systems to support human decision making in the area of business networks, electronic markets, energy grids and supply chain management. His is also the founder and director of the Erasmus Center for Future Energy Business which enables robust, intelligent, efficient and sustainable energy networks of the future. Professor Ketter leads Power TAC, a new TAC competition on energy retail markets. Since 2011 he has served as the chair of the IEEE Task Force on Energy Markets. He was the program co-chair of the International Conference of Electronic Commerce (ICEC) in 2011. He co-chaired the TADA workshop at AAAI in 2008, has been the general chair of the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) in 2009, is a member of the board of directors of the Association for Trading Agent Research (ATAR) since 2009, and its chair since 2010. His research has been published in information systems- and computer science journals such as AI Magazine, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, the European Journal of Information Systems, INFORMS-OR/MS Today, INFORMS, Information Systems Research and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. He serves on the editorial boards of ISR, MISQ, and BISE.
Professor Ketter was the keynote speaker at the International KES Conference on Agents and Multi agent Systems Technologies and Applications in 2012, and the Agents and Data Mining Interaction Workshop in 2012. He was the keynote speaker at the Scandinavian Energy Conference in Oslo in 2011. He has given numerous distinguished lectures at international conferences, and renowned universities including Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Liverpool, RWTH Aachen, the University of Connecticut, TU Delft, KIT, the University of Mannheim and University of St. Thomas.
He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2007.

PRP Workshop at 2017 CENIC
2017-03-20 15:00 - 17:00
Workshop | Monday, March 20, 2017 | 3 PM – 5 PM | Pacifica B, Estancia La Jolla Hotel, San Diego, CA
CENIC Registration: http://bit.ly/2k81Zp5 (If you plan to ONLY attend the PRP Workshop at the 2017 CENIC Conference and do not wish to register for the entire conference, please contact Dr. Brandie Nonnecke <nonnecke@citris-uc.org>)
Presenters:
Michael Cianfrocco, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Diego
Elizabeth Villa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego
Frank Vernon, Research Geophysicist & Lecturer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Camille Crittenden, Deputy Director, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley (moderator)
The NSF-funded Pacific Research Platform (PRP) is a science-driven high-capacity data-centric “freeway system” being developed on a large regional scale. The PRP will enable participating universities and other research institutions to move data 1,000 times faster compared to speeds on today’s inter-campus shared Internet. This workshop will highlight early progress on facilitating collaborative, data-intensive research with case studies on use of the PRP for Cryo-EM and real-time wildfire detection and response.
Big data has arrived for a fast-growing field of biological research: cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). As a research tool for ‘structural biology’, researchers worldwide are turning to cryo-EM to illuminate the atomic details that underlie key biological processes. These atomic structures are then used to understand the inner workings of a cell, with implications ranging from human health & disease to agriculture. Cryo-EM relies on collecting and analyzing terabytes of low signal-to-noise ratio images of specimens. Through the analysis of millions of different images, researchers are able to overcome the low signal to produce atomic-level understanding of biological processes through the use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources. Given the large size of the datasets, researchers face significant hurdles connecting HPC resources to their cryo-EM datasets. Furthermore, it is becoming routine to have centralized cryo-EM facilities that serve both local and national users from across the United States.
The High-Performance and Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) was created in 2000 with funding from NSF.and provides telecommunications capability in areas not well-served by other fixed or mobile high-speed wireless services. HPWREN functions as a collaborative cyberinfrastructure on research, education, and public safety activities. This includes creating and evaluating a non-commercial, high-performance, wide-area wireless network in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial counties. Both the County of San Diego and San Diego Gas & Electric provided further resources to acquire additional cameras and weather stations for environmental observations for the HPWREN sensor network, increasing its utility for public safety uses. The cameras were installed in strategic locations on remote mountain tops, overlooking vast areas of mountainous brush and chaparral, and are often used by firefighters to confirm the location or status of an active wildfire, as well as by news organizations and the general public. HPWREN Director Frank Vernon will discuss recent collaborations between the network, CENIC, and the PRP.

Tikkun Olam Makers (TOM:Berkeley) Makeathon This Weekend!
2017-03-17 08:00 - 2017-03-19 17:00 | 310 Jacobs Hall, Berkeley, CA, United States
Bay Area makers and UC Berkeley students join global movement to collaborate
and develop custom solutions with people with disabilities in 48-hour Makeathon.
Makeathon | March 17 – 19, 2017 | Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
[Berkeley, March 17-19] 95 innovators and makers will gather at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley for TOM:Berkeley, a three-day technology-development marathon where participants work together with people with disabilities to develop solutions for everyday challenges. Physical prototypes address the local need, and the designs will be published online to address the needs of others with similar disabilities around the world.
TOM:Berkeley is the newest TOM:Tikkun Olam Makers community – a global movement of makers, designers, developers, and innovators who seek to solve challenges faced by people living with disabilities worldwide. The community is being launched alongside three other college campuses and one high school this Spring with the support of the Jim Joseph Foundation.
With 1.1 Billion people living with disabilities around the world, there are countless personal challenges which hinder independence and inclusion. The uniqueness of many of these challenges limits the prospective market size, limiting company development and driving prices up for existing commercial products. This event seeks to meet those needs within the local community by connecting volunteers with different backgrounds and skill sets, then providing support and structure to facilitate development.
The teams will have access to the state of the art workshop at both Jacobs Hall and the CITRIS Invention Lab at UC Berkeley, including 3D printers, laser cutters, water jet cutters, electronics fabrication. The eleven teams will have 48 hours to create a working prototype for their challenge.
TOM:Berkeley, starting March 17th at the Jacobs Institute on UC Berkeley and culminating on the 19th, brings together local Makers and people with disabilities on 11 separate challenges. The closing event which is open to the public will take place at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation on 19th of March at 4pm, when TOM:Berkeley participants will showcase their prototypes to the community.
TOM:Berkeley (berkeley.tomglobal.org) is a local community for student Makers, designers, developers and engineers working together with people with disabilities to develop technological solutions for everyday challenges. This event is co-organized by the student group EnableTech at UC Berkeley, who will provide support for projects to continue after the event, and sponsored by CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and the CITRIS Invention Lab, as well as other sponsors, including Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, MakerBot, Neurotech@Berkeley, FEM Tech, Jim Joseph Foundation, Engineering Student Services, and the Reut Group.
By mobilizing TOM Communities worldwide, TOM:Tikkun Olam Makers (tomglobal.org) seeks to address neglected challenges and develop millions of affordable technological solutions for people with disabilities around the globe. Established in 2014, TOM is a strategic initiative of the Reut Group, a Tel Aviv-based innovative policy and strategy group creating and scaling models to ensure prosperity and resilience for Israel and the Jewish People while courageously pursuing a vision to positively impact the lives of 250 Million people in a decade.

Growing Wikipedia Across Languages Via Recommendations
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Growing Wikipedia Across Languages via Recommendations

Lecture | March 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Speaker/Performer: Leila Zia, Research Scientist, Wikimedia Foundation
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Leila Zia joined the Wikimedia Foundation in February 2014 as part of the Research and Data team.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.
Register Online
Event contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

Deep Robotic Learning
2017-03-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Sergey Levine
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, March 13 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Deep learning methods have provided us with remarkably powerful, flexible, and robust solutions in a wide range of passive perception areas: computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. However, active decision making domains such as robotic control present a number of additional challenges, standard supervised learning methods do not extend readily to robotic decision making, where supervision is difficult to obtain. In this talk, I will discuss experimental results that hint at the potential of deep learning to transform robotic decision making and control, present a number of algorithms and models that can allow us to combine expressive, high-capacity deep models with reinforcement learning and optimal control, and describe some of our recent work on scaling up robotic learning through collective learning with multiple robots.
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Sergey Levine received a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2009, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2014. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in fall 2016. His work focuses on machine learning for decision making and control, with an emphasis on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms. Applications of his work include autonomous robots and vehicles, as well as computer vision and graphics. His research includes developing algorithms for end-to-end training of deep neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, deep reinforcement learning algorithms, and more. His work has been featured in many popular press outlets, including the New York Times, the BBC, MIT Technology Review, and Bloomberg Business.

Ken Goldberg – The New Wave in Robot Grasping
2017-03-13 15:30 - 17:30 | 3108 Etcheverry Hall, 3108 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Seminar | Monday, March 13, 2017 | 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Sponsored by Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Speaker: Ken Goldberg
More information: https://eecs.berkeley.edu/events/2017/03/ken-goldberg-new-wave-robot-grasping
Despite 50 years of research, robots remain remarkably clumsy, limiting their applications in home decluttering, warehouse order fulfillment, and robot-assisted surgery. The first wave of grasping research, still dominant, uses analytic methods based on screw theory and assumes exact knowledge of pose, shape, and contact mechanics. The second wave is empirical: purely data-driven approaches which learn grasp strategies from many examples using techniques such as imitation and reinforcement learning with hyperparametric function approximation (Deep Learning). I conjecture that the next wave will be based on hybrid methods that combine analytic models to bootstrap empirical models, where data and code is exchanged via the Cloud using emerging advances in cloud computing and big data. I’ll present examples of this history and emerging results from our lab.
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Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor, and UC Berkeley Professor. His home department is Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, with secondary appointments in EECS, Art Practice, the School of Information, and Radiation Oncology at the UCSF Medical School. Ken is Director of the CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative and the UC Berkeley AUTOLAB where he and his students pursue research in geometric algorithms and machine learning for robotics and automation in surgery, manufacturing, and other applications. Ken developed the first provably complete algorithms for part feeding and part fixturing and the first robot on the Internet. Despite agonizingly slow progress, Ken persists in trying to make robots less clumsy. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and eight U.S. Patents. He co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Ken’s artwork has appeared in 70 exhibits including the Whitney Biennial and films he has co-written have been selected for Sundance and nominated for an Emmy Award. Ken was awarded the NSF PECASE (Presidential Faculty Fellowship) from President Bill Clinton in 1995, elected IEEE Fellow in 2005 and selected by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for the George Saridis Leadership Award in 2016. He lives in the Bay Area and is madly in love with his wife, filmmaker and Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain, and their two daughters. He is fiercely protective of his family, his students, and his frequent-flier miles.

Datacenter Computers: Modern Challenges in CPU Design
2017-03-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall, 430-438 Soda Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Lecture | March 10 | 11 AM – 12 PM | Wozniak Lounge, 430-438 Soda Hall
Speaker: Richard L. Sites, Google Inc.
Event Sponsor: ASPIRE Lab
Event Contact: roxana@eecs.berkeley.edu
Computers used as datacenter servers have usage patterns that differ substantially from those of desktop or laptop computers. We discuss four key differences in usage and their first-order implications for designing computers that are particularly well-suited as servers: data movement, thousands of transactions per second, program isolation, and measurement underpinnings.
Maintaining high-bandwidth data movement requires coordinated design decisions throughout the memory system, instruction-issue system, and even instruction set. Serving thousands of transactions per second requires continuous attention to all sources of delay –causes of long-latency transactions. Unrelated programs running on shared hardware produce delay through undesired interference; isolating programs from one another needs further hardware help. And finally, when running datacenter servers as a business it is vital to be able to observe and hence decrease inefficiencies across dozens of layers of software and thousands of interacting servers. There are myriad open research problems related to these issues.
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Dick Sites is a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, where he has worked for 10 years. He previously worked at Adobe Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Burroughs, and IBM. His accomplishments include co-architecting the DEC Alpha computers and building various computer performance monitoring and tracing tools at the above companies. He also taught Computer Science for four years at UC/San Diego in the 1970s. His work at Google has included CPU disk and network performance anomalies, and web-page language detection. He currently works in the Google Translate group. Dr. Sites holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford and a BS degree in Mathematics from MIT. He also attended the Master’s program in Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill 1969-70. He holds 38 patents and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

View from the Top: Martin Anstice
2017-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
On Wednesday, March 8, the College will welcome to campus the next speaker in our View from the Top series – Martin Anstice, President and CEO, Lam Research. He will speak on “Innovation-Driven Leadership: Sustaining a High-Performance Organization.” I encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to join a conversation with this global industry leader.
Wednesday, March 8
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Refreshments will be provided following the program
This View from the Top lecture is co-sponsored by the Colleges of Engineering and Chemistry and the student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
http://engineering.berkeley.edu/news-events/events/view-top

Computational Imaging for 3D Gigapixel Microscopy
2017-03-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Computational Imaging for 3D Gigapixel Microscopy
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Health Initiative: Big Data: People and Robots Initiative | March 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Laura Waller, Associate Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Abstract:
Computational imaging involves the joint design of imaging system hardware and software, optimizing across the entire pipeline from acquisition to reconstruction. This talk will describe new methods for computational microscopy with coded illumination, based on a simple and inexpensive hardware modification of a commercial microscope. Traditionally, one must trade field-of-view for resolution; with our methods we can have both, resulting in Gigapixel-scale images with resolution beyond the diffraction limit of the system. Our reconstruction algorithms are based on large-scale nonlinear non-convex optimization procedures for phase retrieval.
Laura Waller leads the Computational Imaging Lab, which develops new methods for optical imaging, with optics and computational algorithms designed jointly. She holds the Ted Van Duzer Endowed Professorship and is a Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS), with affiliations in Bioengineering and Applied Sciences & Technology. Laura was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer of Physics at Princeton University from 2010-2012 and received BS, MEng and PhD degrees from MIT in 2014, 2015 and 2010, respectively. She is a Moore Foundation Data-Driven Investigator, Bakar fellow, Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring awardee, NSF CAREER awardee and Packard Fellow.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.

Register online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

The Intimacy of Things: Privacy and the Internet of Things
2017-03-07 13:00 - 14:00
As part of its Spring 2017 Lunch Seminar Series, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity presents Gilad Rosner, founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum.

Automatic discovery and localization of tough bugs in large SoCs using formal-enhanced quick error detection
2017-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Clark Barrett
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, March 06 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Quick error detection (QED) is an existing technique that transforms existing SoC test suites to improve coverage and reduce error detection latency. I will discuss two recent results which use formal methods to greatly enhance the power of QED. First, Symbolic QED is a method which uses bounded model checking to exhaustively search for short sequences of instructions which could cause QED checks to fail. Symbolic QED finds logic bugs and is applicable both to pre- and post-silicon designs. Second, Electrical QED is a technique that uses a small amount of additional hardware coupled with bounded model checking and QED to quickly localize post-silicon electrical bugs to specific design blocks and even to a handful of flip-flops within those design blocks. Both techniques were evaluated on the OpenSPARC T2 SoC with a wide variety of injected logic and electrical bugs. The new techniques automatically found and localized the injected bugs.
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Clark Barrett is an Associate Professor (Research) of Computer Science at Stanford University, with expertise in constraint solving and its applications to verification. His Ph.D dissertation introduced a novel approach to constraint solving now known as Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT). His subsequent work on SMT has been recognized with a best paper award at DAC, an IBM Software Quality Innovation award, the Haifa Verification Conference award, and first-place honors at the SMT, CASC, and SyGuS competitions. He was also an early pioneer in the development of formal hardware verification: at Intel, he collaborated on a novel theorem prover used to verify key microprocessor properties; and at 0-in Design Automation (now part of Mentor Graphics), he helped build one of the first industrially successful assertion-based verification tool-sets for hardware.

3+1 - An HMI Design Framework for Autonomous Vehicles
2017-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 | 540 Cory Hall, 540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Brian Lathrop
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Friday, March 03 | 2 – 3 PM | 540 Cory Hall | Webcast
While mode confusion and the ensuing human error that goes with it will likely have a significant impact on the safety of future AVs, the transitioning between modes and how those transitions are orchestrated via the vehicle’s HMI will be equally important. This is particularly relevant when the modes to which one is transitioning are not discrete states (e.g., on and off). That is, when transitions are put into the context of SAE Driving Automation Definitions it becomes clear that the human operator will transition into partial automation, conditional automation, and high automation. These variable states of the vehicle need to be communicated in a timely and clear manner, and the orchestration of the transitions between states needs to be effortless and exact.
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Senior Principal Scientist Brian Lathrop is the Senior Principal Scientist for the Technology and Trend Scouting team at Volkswagen. In 2003 Brian received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2004 Brian joined VW and was responsible for human factors and usability testing activities for infotainment and driver assistance systems. In 2008 Brian became the senior manager of the HMI team at the ERL, responsible for defining the vision, roadmap, and overall strategy. He has led many projects focused on reinventing the vehicle cockpit of tomorrow, realizing advanced infotainment controls, futuristic displays, gaze and gesture-dependent interfaces, and HMI concepts for self-driving cars. In 2016 Brian joined the Technology and Trend Scouting, focused on transforming customer insights into user friendly products.

Open mHealth and Data Integration
2017-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Open mHealth and Data Integration
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Health Initiative | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Ida Sim, Professor, UCSF
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Dr. Ida Sim is a primary care physician, informatics researcher, and entrepreneur. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she co-directs Biomedical Informatics at UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her current research focuses on the use of mobile apps and sensors to improve health and manage disease for populations and individuals, and to make clinical research faster and less expensive. She is a co-founder of Open mHealth, a non-profit organization that is breaking down barriers to mobile health app and data integration through an open software architecture. Dr. Sim is also a co-investigator and Consortium Core Lead with the Mobile Data to Knowledge NIH Center of Excellence.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.
Register Online
Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

The Bugs that went to Mars and Terrorized Earth
2017-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Rajeev Joshi
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, February 27 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Since its dramatic landing in Gale crater in August 2012, the Curiosity Rover has been busy exploring the surface of Mars, looking for evidence of past habitable environments. Having completed over 4 years on Mars, and with nearly 17 kms on its odometer, Curiosity has already made historic discoveries, finding evidence of an ancient freshwater streambed, organic molecules and other key ingredients necessary for life. Yet, in spite of its great successes, the mission has not been without a few hiccups. In this talk, we discuss the most significant of these: the Sol-200 anomaly, when the failure of a flash memory chip uncovered three latent software bugs that nearly killed the mission. We describe how the anomaly manifested itself, how recovery was achieved, and lessons learnt from the experience. The work described in this talk was carried out at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Rajeev Joshi is a Principal Engineer at the Lab for Reliable Software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he works on building and applying tools based on formal methods to improve mission software reliability. He is also currently the Chief Engineer for Flight Software and Avionics Systems at JPL. He was a member of the Curiosity rover flight software development team, and, after landing, a member of the surface operations team, serving as data management chair and supporting anomaly investigations. For his work on Curiosity, he received two JPL Mariner Awards and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MS/PhD (also in Computer Sciences) from the University of Texas at Austin. His previous employment includes 4 years at the DEC/Compaq/HP Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, CA, and 2 years at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. He is an elected member (and current secretary) of IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology.

Biomedical Instrumentation:
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Biomedical Instrumentation:: How do we measure what we want to measure, when and where we want it
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Health Initiative | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Dan Fletcher, Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Dr. Dan Fletcher is Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems in the Bioengineering Department at UC Berkeley, where his research focuses on the biophysics of cell movements and the cytoskeleton and development of biomedical devices. Recent work from his laboratory includes direct measurement of the actin networks that drive crawling motility, development of vesicle encapsulation technology for cellular reconstitution, and demonstration of fluorescence microscopy on a mobile phone.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.
Register online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

Data-Driven Price-of-Anarchy Estimation in Transportation Networks
2017-02-20 10:00 - 11:00 | 380 Soda Hall, 380 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Ioannis Paschalidis
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS)
This event has been postponed. Please check the seminar series schedule for any updates.
Equilibrium modeling is common in a variety of fields such as game theory, transportation science, and systems biology. The inputs for these models, however, are often difficult to estimate, while their outputs, i.e., the equilibria they are meant to describe, are often directly observable. By combining ideas from inverse optimization with the theory of variational inequalities, we develop an efficient, data-driven technique for estimating the parameters of these models from observed equilibria. A distinguishing feature of our approach is that it supports both parametric and nonparametric estimation by leveraging ideas from statistical learning.
We apply this general framework to transportation networks. Using real traffic data from the Boston area, we estimate origin-destination flow demand matrices and the per-road cost (congestion) functions drivers implicitly use for route selection. Given this information, one can formulate and solve a system-optimum problem to identify socially optimal flows for the transportation network. The ratio of total latency under a user-optimal policy versus a system-optimal policy is the so-called Price-of-Anarchy (POA), quantifying the efficiency loss of selfish actions compared to socially optimal ones. We find that POA can be quite substantial, sometimes exceeding 2, suggesting that there is scope for control actions to steer the equilibrium to a socially optimal one. We will discuss what some of these actions may be and how to prioritize interventions.
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Yannis Paschalidis is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is the Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of systems and control, networks, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, medical informatics, and bioinformatics.
Prof. Paschalidis’ work has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the second prize in the George E. Nicholson competition by INFORMS, and a finalist best paper award in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). His work on protein docking has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups. Work with students has won a best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, and an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize. He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference. Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture: From Geometry to Startups - Reinventing Engineering Education
2017-02-16 12:00 - 13:00
Lecture | February 16 | 12 PM – 1 PM | Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Featured Speaker: Dr. Zexiang Li, Co-Founder, DJI
Sponsor/Organizer: College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Target Audiences: Open to all audiences, faculty, graduate & undergraduate students
Refreshments: Lunch will be provided
Event Contact: bears@berkeley.edu
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Professor Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.

Big Data Mining and Neural Networks
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Tearing Down the Deep Learning Performance Wall
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Big Data: People and Robots Initiative | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Greg Diamos, Senior Researcher, Baidu
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Just this year, deep learning has fueled significant progress in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. We have seen a computer beat the world champion in Go with help from deep learning, and a single deep learning algorithm learn to recognize two vastly different languages, English and Mandarin. At Baidu, we think that this is just the beginning, and high performance computing is poised to help.
It turns out that deep learning is compute limited, even on the fastest machines that we can build. This talk will provide empirical evidence from our Deep Speech work that application level performance (e.g. recognition accuracy) scales with data and compute, transforming some hard AI problems into problems of computational scale.
This talk will describe the performance characteristics of Baidu’s deep learning workloads in detail, focusing on the recurrent neural networks used in Deep Speech as a case study. It will cover challenges to further improving performance, and outline a plan of attack for tearing down the remaining obstacles standing in the way of strong scaling deep learning to the largest machines in the world.
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Greg Diamos is a senior researcher at Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL). Previously he was on the research team at NVIDIA. Greg holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he contributed to the development of the GPU-Ocelot dynamic compiler, which targeted CPUs and GPUs from the same program representation. His PhD thesis pioneered execution models for heterogeneous processors.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.

Register online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

From Resource to Price: The Case of the Italian Electricity Network and Market - Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine
2017-02-14 13:00 - 14:00
Siebel Energy Institute Seminar Series
From Resource to Price: The Case of the Italian Electricity Network and Market
Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine

Tuesday, February 14 at 1:00 PM PT
Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Lunch is offered.
Live Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/citris/live

Abstract:
We empirically investigate the impact of renewable production on congestion using a unique database on the Italian Power Market, where zonal pricing is in place. We estimate two econometric models: a multinomial logit model, to assess whether renewables increase the occurrence of congestion, and a two stage least square (2SLS) model to evaluate the impact of wind and photovoltaics on congestion costs. Our analysis suggests that larger renewable supply in importing regions decreases the probability of congestion compared to the no congestion case, while the reverse occurs when renewable production is located in an exporting region. The 2SLS estimations reveal that the same mechanisms explain the level of congestion costs. Our results also highlight that the magnitude of the congestion effects, both in terms of probability and costs, is very sensitive to the localization of the historical efficient production, mainly hydro power, and to the geographical configuration of the transmission network. Finally, the implications of forecasting and simulating new renewable production, based on data of wind and solar availability, will be discussed.

Speaker Biography:
Anna Creti is a Full Professor at the Université Paris Dauphine, LeDA-CGEMP (Laboratoire d’économie de Dauphine-Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des matières premières) and Director at the Chaire European Electricity Markets. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique, and currently is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her PhD in Economics at the Université de Toulouse, her master’s degree at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and her in B.A. in Economics at the University L. Bocconi -Discipline Economiche e Sociali in Milan. She has been a fellow at the London School of Economics, and researcher at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle, Toulouse and has won numerous awards for her work, including the Research Excellence Award at Bocconi University in 2008, 2009, and 2010. She has published in various journals that cover topics in network economics, with a special focus on telecommunications, electricity and gas sectors. Her research interests are in energy economics, industrial organization, regulation theory and organization theory.

About the Siebel Energy Institute
The Siebel Energy Institute is a global consortium for innovative and collaborative energy research. The Institute funds cooperative and innovative research grants in data analytics, including statistical analysis and machine learning, to accelerate advancements in the safety, security, reliability, efficiency, and environmental integrity of modern energy systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructures. To maximize the impact of research and its long-term benefits to society, research outcomes will be publicly available and the Institute maintains an active connection to the energy sector through an Industrial Advisory Board. Member universities are Carnegie Mellon University, École Polytechnique, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Princeton University, Tsinghua University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Tokyo.

Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates
2017-02-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Julie Shah
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, February 13 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Every team has top performers — people who excel at working in a team to find the right solutions in complex, difficult situations. These top performers include nurses who run hospital floors, emergency response teams, air traffic controllers, and factory line supervisors. While they may outperform the most sophisticated optimization and scheduling algorithms, they cannot often tell us how they do it. Similarly, even when a machine can do the job better than most of us, it can’t explain how. In this talk, we will view results from work investigating effective ways to blend the unique decision-making strengths of humans and machines. We will discuss the development of computational models that enable machines to efficiently infer the mental state of human teammates and thereby collaborate with people in richer, more flexible ways. Our studies demonstrate statistically significant improvements in people’s performance on military, healthcare and manufacturing tasks, when aided by intelligent machine teammates.
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Julie Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2014, Shah was recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and by MIT Technology Review on its 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also in Technology Review’s 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. She has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Symposium on Robotics. Shah earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and in autonomous systems from MIT.

Berkeley Innovators Present: She Started It - Film Screening + Discussion
2017-02-08 18:00 - 20:30 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PST
Banatao Auditorium
Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
About She Started It:
96% of venture capitalists are men 1. Women still account for less than 10% of founders for high growth firms 2 and earn only 12.9% of computer science degrees 3. She Started It gives a new face to the image of the tech entrepreneur: a female face.
Join the CITRIS Foundry, Berkeley Innovators, Student Technology Council, and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship for a film screening of “She Started It,” a new documentary film that follows five trailblazing young female entrepreneurs through their journeys of entrepreneurship. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Abigail Jacob, Materials Science and Engineering ’18, Engineering Student Council Vice President and Head of Internal Affairs, and a Unit Supervisor for Residental Computing; Tarrika Soni, Cognitive Science ’15, User Ops at Nerd Wallet.
View the trailer for the film here. UC Berkeley Students, Staff and Faculty are invited to attend this free event.

Agenda:
6:00 PM | Welcome
6:15 PM | Film Screening of She Started It

Light snacks will be served

7:15 PM | Film Discussion with panel

Abigail Jacob, Materials Science and Engineering ’18, Engineering Student Council Vice President and Head of Internal Affairs, and a Unit Supervisor for Residental Computing
Tarrika Soni, Cognitive Science ’15, User Ops at Nerd Wallet

8:30 PM | Program Close

Register to Attend

Event Hosted By
This event is a part of the Berkeley Innovators Series and is hosted by the CITRIS Foundry, Berkeley Innovators, Student Technology Council, and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship.

About the CITRIS Foundry:
The CITRIS Foundry is the University of California accelerator for founders building transformative technology companies. If you’re ready to jump in, the Foundry provides access to design, manufacturing and business development tools, along with a community of entrepreneurs and experts, to accelerate your team into founders.
About Berkeley Innovators:

Part of the central campus office of University Development and Alumni Relations, Berkeley Innovators connects alumni entrepreneurs and founders with campus resources that can help their company grow – including recruiting, visibility, networking, and events.
About the Student Technology Council (STC):
The Student Technology Council (STC) is a student-led, student-run organization that advises the campus Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor on issues of student technology. STC’s mission is to connect, innovate, and sustain in order to meet student technology needs.
About the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship (SCET):
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology is the premiere institution on the UC Berkeley campus for the study and practice of “technology-centric” entrepreneurship and innovation.

1Fortune2″Sources of Economic Hope” by Kauffman Foundation3Computing Research Association study

Software Engineering with Machine Learning
2017-02-08 12:00 - 13:00
Software Engineering with Machine Learning
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Big Data: People and Robots Initiative | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch at UC Berkeley if you register by the Monday before the talk (lunches limited).

Register Online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live during the time of the event

Machine Vision Innovations
2017-02-01 12:00 - 13:00
Machine Vision Innovations
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Speaker/Performer: Gary Bradski, CTO, Arraiy.com
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Gary Bradski is CTO at Arraiy.com, which is building a computer vision and deep learning platform to provide customers new abilities to capture and understand the visual world. Bradski co-founded Industrial Perception, a company that developed perception applications for industrial robotic application (since acquired by Google in 2012) and has worked on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as published a book on that library.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch at UC Berkeley if you register by the Monday before the talk (lunches limited).
Register online
Event contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live during the time of the event

Transforming SF: The Future of Work
2017-01-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room, 57 Post Street 4th Floor Meeting Room, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Transforming SF: THE FUTURE OF WORK
Thursday, January 26, 2017 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PST
Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room
57 Post Street
4th Floor Meeting Room
San Francisco, CA 94104
What are the social and economic impacts of technology, robotics and AI on work and employment?
Will human beings be completely replaced in the work force? What new jobs will be created and which industries most affected? What will we do with time on our hands and how will we “earn a living”? Two experts in this field will sort out these complicated dynamics, dispel misconceptions, and offer both the short and long view.
This conversation includes artist, inventor and robotics guru Professor Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Director of the CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative; and economics expert Professor Emeritus John Zysman, UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science and Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).
Please register below and select “UC Berkeley Affiliate” for free admission:
Register to Attend

Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) with Dan Garcia
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Please join us for the first CITRIS Research Exchange seminar of the Spring 2017 semester!
“Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)”
Speaker: Daniel Garcia, UC Berkeley
CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 25
Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
https://garcia-citrisre.eventbrite.com/
Register to Attend
Abstract:
Our Beauty and Joy of Computing course was chosen as one of the national pilots for the new Advanced Placement (AP): Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to broaden participation in computing to traditionally underrepresented groups. Locally offered as a non-majors computing course, BJC was the first introductory CS course in Cal’s recorded history to have greater than 50% female enrollment, and women usually outperform the men! We have reached thousands of learners worldwide through our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) BJCx, and we have provided professional development to over 300 high school teachers nationwide, with plans for 100 more this summer. This talk will review the state of the “computer science for all” movement, and share how we are moving the needle to transform high school computer science, bringing fun, engaging, and powerful introductory computing ideas to the world.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. The complete schedule for Spring 2017 is coming soon to: CITRIS Research Exchange
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live.
Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE.
All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/playlists
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
CITRIS @ Santa Cruz: Room 595B, Engineering 2 Building, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00
Please join us for the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the spring semester.
Abstract:
Our Beauty and Joy of Computing course was chosen as one of the national pilots for the new Advanced Placement (AP): Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to broaden participation in computing to traditionally underrepresented groups. Locally offered as a non-majors computing course, BJC was the first…

Design Field Notes: Neil Goldberg
2017-01-24 16:00 - 17:00
Neil Goldberg will give a talk, “Design Matters: From Design Consciousness to Design Thinking,” at the Jacobs Institute.

How Chemistry Can Revolutionize Electronics and Opto-Electronics
2017-01-20 14:00 - 15:00
Since the beginning of Solid State Electronics, with the invention of the transistor, chemical bonding structures have actually played the key enabling role. This lecture will outline how chemical bonds were critical for the computing revolution, the internet revolution, and are of great importance for the forthcoming energy revolution. I will try to answer the following question: What does…

Seed Grant Program Info Session at UC Santa Cruz
2017-01-10 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
January 10, 4-5pm at UC Santa Cruz
Location: Engineering 2 Building, Room 180, The Simularium, UCSC campus
The 2017 CITRIS Seed Funding opportunity invites Principal Investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health System, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz to apply for seed funding that furthers CITRIS and the Banatao Institute research initiatives, strengthens connections among UC campuses, and catalyzes early-stage research that can lead to external funding.
This year, we are pleased to continue our seed funding partnership with UC Riverside and encourage joint applications from investigators at UC Riverside and one or more CITRIS campuses.

$550,000 available: Core CITRIS Seed Funding
$150,000 available: CITRIS & UC Riverside Seed Funding

View the full program overview with detailed areas of interest, eligibility, requirements, online application portal, and FAQs.
Deadline for all CITRIS Seed Funding proposals:
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 5:00pm PST
Funded projects have attracted follow-on support from federal, state, industrial, and private sources including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Intel, Microsoft, Mellon Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more info about this info session, please contact: Angel Dominguez, Administrative Manager and Project Coordinator
Find out more about the CITRIS Seed Funding program at https://citris-uc.org/citris-seed-funding/

WAFR 2016: The 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
2016-12-18 08:00 - 2016-12-20 17:00 | Exploratorium, Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St), San Francisco, CA, United States
WAFR 2016
Date: December 18-20, 2016
Location: San Francisco, CA
Venue: Exploratorium
Register to Attend
About WAFR
Founded in 1994, the International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a prestigious biannual meeting of international researchers presenting the latest advances in algorithms for robotics. WAFR is a single-track workshop devoted to recent advances on algorithmic problems in robotics. The workshop proceedings will be published in a hardcover volume in the Springer STAR series, and selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research.
Topics:
The focus of WAFR is on the design and analysis of robot algorithms from both theoretical and practical angles. The topics of interest are very broad. We encourage papers on fundamental algorithmic issues, such as complexity, completeness, machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and new programming paradigms, to name a few. We also encourage papers on applications of robot algorithms to important or new domains, such as manufacturing, legged locomotion, distributed robotics, human-robot interaction, surgical robots, intelligent prosthetics, and brain-controlled robots. Furthermore, robot algorithms are being applied in domains beyond the traditional scope of robotics, e.g., computational biology, computer animation, sensor networks, etc. Papers on these topics are also welcome.

Image credit: http://wafr2016.berkeley.edu/
