CITRIS Research Exchange – Fall 2014

Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at noon Pacific Time and is hosted live in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.

View PDF of the Fall 2014 Research Exchange Seminar Series schedule.


Sept 3, 2014

The Transformation of Transportation: New Vehicles, Fuels, and Mobility Services

Dan Sperling

Institute for Transportation Studies, UC Davis


Sept 10, 2014

Lessons Learned from Drinking Water Treatment, Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves, and Energy Efficient Lights

Ashok Gagdil

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


Sept 17, 2014

Digital Agenda for Europe

Francisco García Morán

Chief IT Advisor – European Commission


Sept 19, 2014

Blending Science Engineering and Design

Ben Shneiderman

University of Maryland


Sept 24, 2014

Wireless Sensor Networks for Flash Flood and Traffic Monitoring in Urban Environments Using Mixed Eulerian Lagrangian Sensing

Christian Claudel

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering – KAUST


Oct 1, 2014

UrbanSim model of urban development

Paul Waddell

Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning – UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design


Oct 8, 2014

Data Analytics in Energy

Ed Abbo

c3Energy

No Webcast Available


Oct 15, 2014

The Technology of Access: Allowing People of Age to Vote for Themselves

Ted Selker

UC Santa Cruz


Oct 22, 2014

How We Got to Now

Steven Johnson

Bestselling Author


Oct 29, 2014

Pragmatic Translational Informatics

Nick Anderson

Director of Informatics Research – UC Davis Health System


Nov 5, 2014

The Economics of Energy

C.-Y. Cynthia Lin

Dept of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Dept of Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis


Nov 12, 2014

Medicine: A Big Data Revolution Occurring in Our Midst

Ted Driscoll

Claremont Creek Ventures


Nov 19, 2014

Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance

Richard Swart

The Coleman Fung Institute

No Webcast Available


Dec 3, 2014

Big Data for Better Medicine

David Haussler

Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering – UC Santa Cruz