The spring schedule for the Research Exchange can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010
Nanotechnology
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.
Holger Schmidt
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, UC Santa Cruz
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
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule
The spring semester schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online.
Kai Liu
Professor Kai Liu joined UC Davis in 2001. His research interest is in experimental studies of nanostructured materials for nanomagnetism, spin-transport, and advanced energy explorations. Due to their intricate nanostructures, extremely small length scales, rich surfaces and interfaces, low dimensionality, and interplay among constituents, nanostructured materials often exhibit new and enhanced properties over their bulk counterparts. Additionally, these novel properties can be tailored through extra degrees of freedom, such as structure and material.
The Future of Optical Networking
Imagine an Internet connection that's 10,000 times faster. A group of
CITRIS researchers are developing the technology that will make that
goal a reality.
A Nano-Scale Lab with Societal-Scale Impact
Construction is underway on CITRIS's new headquarters. Its Nanolab
Center is part of a coordinated investment in the nanotech
infrastructure of tomorrow.
Luke Lee
Professor Luke Lee is Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley. He is also Director of Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He was Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich). He received both his B.A. in Biophysics and Ph.D. in Applied Physics/Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.
Professor Liwei Lin
Professor Liwei Lin currently serves as Chancellor’s Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center.
Albert Pisano
Research Interests:
Primary: Invention, design, fabrication, modeling and optimization of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS): harsh environment sensors, micro thermal heat management devices for integrated circuits, micro power generation devices, micro and nano resonators for RF communication, micro fluidic systems for drug delivery, micro inertial instruments, micro information storage systems and nanoimprinted sensors & electronics. Secondary: Optimal mechanical design. Kinematics and dynamics of machines.