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i4Energy Seminar: The Challenges of Solar Forecasting: Reducing the Cost of Solar Power Through Research

The Solar Forecasting Laboratory at the University of California Merced has collected over 15 months of high quality horizontal and direct normal irradiance measurements at different wavelengths (UV, IR and visible) with the primary objective of developing, calibrating and benchmarking novel and more accurate forecasting models for solar irradiance at the ground level. Without effective forecasting methodologies, neither solar nor wind power plants cannot be effectively connected to the power grid, which presents a major obstacle for high-penetration utilization of intermittent sources.

Research Exchange: Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare

Knowledge is power. Knowing of the quantities of specific molecules present in a biological system is fundamental to understanding systems level operation. This understanding is critical for translating basic knowledge of specific molecules into applied medical, agriculture, forensic, and drug development assays, and has created a need for methods that more accurately quantify an ever-increasing number of newly identified analytes with greater precision.

Valeria La Saponara

Dr. Valeria La Saponara received her Bachelor’s degree in 1994 in aerospace engineering from the University of Naples, Italy. She worked as a research fellow at the MARS Center, Italy, a subcontractor of NASA and the European Space Agency. She then went to the U.S. and completed her Master’s and Ph.D. in 2001, both in aerospace engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Matthew Guthaus

Matthew Guthaus received his BSE in Computer Engineering in 1998, MSE in 2000, and PhD in 2006 in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan (UM). Matthew is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Computer Engineering department. His research interests are in high-performance and low-power clock distribution; design for variability and reliability; and computer-aided design of Integrated Circuits.

Anna Scaglione

Prof. Anna Scaglione received the Laurea (M.Sc. degree) in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in 1999 from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza.” She is currently Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis, where she joined in 2008. She was previously at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, from 2001 where became Associate Professor in 2006; prior to joining Cornell she was Assistant Professor in the year 2000-2001, at the University of New Mexico.

CITRIS and the New Year 2010

– CITRIS Director Paul Wright delivers a message for the New Year –

CITRIS is a symbol of everything wonderful that the UC system offers
the world in terms of education, research, and service. Several hundred
graduate and undergraduate students on four campuses are funded by the
national and international extra-mural grants that are brought into the
UC system because of CITRIS. Our work covers energy, water, healthcare,
and infrastructures and, by being multi-disciplinary, our students come
from all walks of life.

2010 MDV Innovators Award Winners Announced

The 2010 Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award Winners have been announced. Mohr Davidow Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm investing in pioneering science, has announced that among its winners are Ali Javey from UC Berkeley and Delia Milliron from LBNL

Lydia Sohn

Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Chair in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Prof. Carey receives award from Hewlett-Packard

Professor Van P. Carey, CITRIS researcher and UC Berkeley professor of Mechanical Engineering recently received an award from Hewlett-Packard as part of a growing research effort on sustainable energy technologies in the Energy and Information Technologies (EIT) Laboratory that he founded with CITRIS seed funding. Prof. Carey has attracted more that $250,000 in new funding for this lab in recently awarded grants from HP and UC Discovery.

Alex Bayen interviewed on Smartplanet

Professor Alexandre Bayen was recently interviewed by CBS’ Smartplanet, a new online channel from CBS. The interview focused on Mobile Millennium, a traffic information system built jointly by Nokia, Navteq and UC Berkeley, in partnership with the US Department of Transportation and the California Department of Transportation. View two minute interview.

Professor Holger Schmidt

Prof. Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow with
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of electrical engineering and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics.

Professor Nader Pourmand

Dr. Pourmand is the head of the Biosensors and Bioelectrical Technology Group, as well as, director of the Genome Sequencing Center at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering. Dr. Pourmand’s ongoing research strives to develop new techniques and assays for biomedical applications. Because the nature of science is ever changing, Dr. Pourmand and his team of researchers work diligently in order to be innovative and proactive when it comes to research, collaboration, and discovery.

Professor Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi

Research Areas
Physics and chemistry of complex functional materials; group III-V compound semiconductor nanometer-scale structures and devices; mixed oxide nanometer-scale structures and devices; tailored nano-micrometer-scale hybrid semiconductor structures for energy conversion devices and advanced electronics

Michael Isaacson

Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz