The Spring 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series. The Spring 2011 speaker series is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Gary Baldwin, the first Managing Director of the i4Energy Center.
All talks take place at noon in the Banatao Auditorium on the 3rd floor of Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, unless otherwise noted.
The CITRIS-LBNL-CIEE i4Energy Center focuses on the development of information technology systems that facilitate significant energy and cost savings. Free and open to the public, the i4Energy Speaker Series is a weekly roundtable of lectures and discussions that highlight these research issues.
JANUARY 21 Measuring the Usability of Thermostats and Other Really Annoying Devices
Alan Meier, LBNL
Link to video on YouTube
JANUARY 28 Selling Random Energy
Kameshwar Poolla, UC Berkeley
*Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Link to video on YouTube
FEBRUARY 4 Plausible Futures for Electric Grid Architecture: A Scenario Planning Exercise
Merwin Brown, CIEE
*Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Link to video on YouTube
FEBRUARY 11 Synchrophasors: How They Are Making the Grid Smarter
Lloyd Cibulka, CIEE
Link to video on YouTube
FEBRUARY 18 The Demand Side: What Behavioral Patterns Stand in the Way?
Jim Sweeney, Stanford University
Link to video on YouTube
FEBRUARY 25 Why Fluorescent Lighting Isn’t Dead
Francis Rubinstein, LBNL
Link to video on YouTube
MARCH 4 A Primer to Competitive Electricity Markets: Smart Markets for a Smart Grid
Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley
Link to video on YouTube
MARCH 11 The Printing of Energy Scavenging and Storage Devices
James Evans, UC Berkeley
Link to video on YouTube
MARCH 18 High-Performance Computing Challenges for Magnetic Fusion Simulations
Eric Sonnendrucker, Université de Strasbourg
*Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Link to video on YouTube
MARCH 25 No seminar due to spring break holiday
APRIL 1 California Smart Grid Center – Education Opportunities in Power Engineering and Certificate Programs
Emir Macari and Suresh Vadhva, CSUS
Link to video on YouTube
APRIL 8 Emerging Cyber Security Issues of the Smart Grid
Isaac Ghansah, CSUS
Link to video on YouTube
APRIL 15 CANCELED Entirely New and Better Approaches to Conditioning Buildings
Ed Arens, UC Berkeley
APRIL 22 Exploring the Potential and Contribution of Waste for Reaching Zero Net Energy and Zero Landfill-waste at UC Merced
Gerardo Diaz, UC Merced
Link to video on YouTube