This year, CITRIS awarded seven student-led proposals a total of $30,000 in prize money at the April 22 poster session for our annual White Paper competition.
Nanotechnology
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.
CITRIS newsletter about Marvell Lab
The April newsletter is online and focuses on the happenings of the Marvell Nanolab.
Smaller Keeps Getting Bigger: Marvell Lab Kicks into Gear
If small was beautiful, nano is stunning.
NSF awards $24.5 million for center to stem increase of electronics power draw
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $24.5 million to researchers
at the University of California, Berkeley, to head an ambitious,
multi-institutional center that could one day lead to a million-fold reduction
in power consumption by electronics.
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.
2010 CITRIS Seed Funding RFP Now Open
CITRIS is pleased to announce a new round of seed funding for FY 2010. It is open to all CITRIS investigators in UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Spring 2010 is now online
The spring schedule for the Research Exchange can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010
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
CITRIS Research Exchange for the Fall now online
The Fall 2009 schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online. The talks begin Sept. 2 and will take place in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall.
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.
Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy Interviewed at Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems
The CITRIS sponsored Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems recently gathered about 100 researchers. EE Times reporter Rick Merritt interviewed Sun Microsystems co-founder and keynote speaker Bill Joy. Watch interview.
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
Marvell Lab featured in Wall Street Journal
A recent WSJ article discusses the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory and its founders.
Capture of Nanomagnetic ‘Fingerprints’ a Boost for Next-Generation Information Storage Media
A team of physicists at UC Davis has developed a
technique to capture the magnetic “fingerprints” of certain nanostructures —
even when they are buried within the boards and junctions of an electronic
device