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The Big Ideas @ Berkeley marketplace allows individuals to
support undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about tackling
major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the
environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and
technology-based entrepreneurship.
Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering NEWS: NERSC made the No. 7 system in TOP500, Top Spot on Latest List of World’s TOP500 Supercomputers The No. 7 system, called Franklin, is the second new Cray XT5 system. It is installed at DOE’s NERSC Center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and achieved 266.3 Tflop/s.
Drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area with GPS-enabled mobile phones can now tap into new technology that promises to transform traffic monitoring. Researchers have publicly released pilot software that turns cellular devices into mobile traffic probes providing real-time information on traffic flow and travel times. (Below: College of Engineering Dean Shankar Sastry opens this briefing to visitors and media.)
Presentations from the recent TIER workshop are now online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/TIER.
The CoolClimate Calculator (http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu) has been developed by researchers at the Berkeley Institute of the Environment to help US households evaluate their complete climate footprints, including all direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, household energy, food, goods and services.
For more information and to apply for internship please contact: Tammy
Welcome at LBNL: TSWelcome@lbl.gov
Title: Student Assistant Position with IT Division at LBNL
Undergraduate or graduate position, <50% during academic year, 100%
during summer
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and
the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis
W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science.
For more information and to apply visit: http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html
The University of Copenhagen is hosting an
international scientific congress on climate change March 10-12, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings will be compiled in a book on climate
change, and an excecutive summary will be handed
over to policy makers at the COP15.
The Deadline for paper submissions for the Copenhagen Climate Congress is November 1, 2008.
The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.
A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.
