CITRIS Research Exchange – Spring 2014

Free and open to the public, the Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly roundtable of presentations and discussions that highlights ways to frame and tackle societal-scale research issues.

Talks are on Wednesdays, noon to 1 p.m. in the Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall at UC Berkeley.


Jan 22, 2014

Cognitive Computing for Utilities

David Haussler

Distinguished Engineer, IBM


Jan 29, 2014

Does Rebound Offset the Savings from Energy Efficiency?

Severin Borenstein

Co-Director, Energy Institute at Haas


Feb 5, 2014

Health Care Price Transparency

Christopher Waley

Analytics Associate, Castlight Health


Feb 12, 2014

Breaking the Habits of Economic Growth: an Imperative for a Low Carbon Transformation

Harold Wilhite

Professor, Centre for Development and the Environment


Feb 19, 2014

Crowdsourcing in Policy-Making: The Impact of Blended Expertise on Law-Making Process

Tanja Aitamurto

Visiting Scholar, Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley


Feb 26, 2014

Themes of California Water Plan Update: Integrate, Align & Invest

Kamyar Guivetchi

California Department of Water Resources


Mar 5, 2014

Innovations in Disaster Relief Work

Brian Fishman

Philanthropic Engineer, Palantir Technologies


Mar 12, 2014

Future of Demand Side Energy Management – Opportunities and Challenges

Steven Schiller

Chair Emeritus, CA Energy Efficiency Industry Council

No Webcast Available


Mar 19, 2014

OpenROV: Open Source Underwater Robots for Exploration and Education

David Lang

OpenROV

No Webcast Available


Apr 2, 2014

Games for Change

Brenda Romero

UC Santa Cruz

No Webcast Available


Apr 9, 2014

Enabling a Sustainable Energy Infrastructure

David Culler

UC Berkeley

No Webcast Available


Apr 16, 2014

In Drought and Deluge: How Applied Hydroinformatics are Becoming Standard Operating Data for All Californians

Joshua Viers

UC Merced

No Webcast Available


Apr 23, 2014

Renewables Integration and Grid Management: The Role of Storage and Electric Vehicles

Carla Peterman

Commissioner of the California Energy Commission

No Webcast Available


Apr 30, 2014

Telehealth Challenges in the Future

Birthe Irene Dinesen

Aalborg University

No Webcast Available


May 7, 2014

Intermittency-Friendly Community Scale Renewable Energy Microgrids

Michael Isaacson

UC Santa Cruz

No Webcast Available