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…the photonic bandgap concept, and he coined the term “photonic crystal.” The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized photonic bandgap is sometimes called “Yablonovite.” In his photovoltaic research, Yablonovitch…
The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic, industry and civic leaders. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel…
…country in the future,” she says. For more information: National Center for Environmental Research: Airborne Particulate Matter Research Centers Anthony Wexler’s Home Page UC Davis Wins $8 Million EPA…
…and was a postdoctoral researcher at Boston University. In 2015, he joined the faculty of UC Davis, where he directs the Cyber-Human-Physical Systems (CHPS) Lab. His research focuses on collaborative…
…applied research in science and engineering can greatly contribute to improving clinical care, care delivery, and quality of life for many affected individuals. Research in this fertile area brings together…
Research interests: Geotechnical earthquake engineering, characterization and behavior of weakly cemented soils, static and seismic slope stability, ground improvement, seismic stability of mechanically stabilized slopes and embankments, stability of rock…
Dr. Phillip Berman is a biotech industry veteran with extensive experience in discovery research and manufacturing process development. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School and was…
…be mapped using geospatial tools, and all of them have an interested group of stakeholders for whom the research results have importance. My work using GIS, remote sensing, web infrastructure,…
With Switch (a loose acronym for Solar, Wind, Hydro and Conventional generators and Transmission), researchers can explore generation, transmission, and storage options for the future electricity grid. The model identifies…
The researchers aim to provide web-based tools for the analysis and visualization of a large body of text documents, with a focus on databases of news articles. They are using…
…or a wheel. However, building computational systems that contain human feedback is not trivial. This research will focus on characterizing the results of specific human computation platforms and on developing…
…Berkeley, the international conference drew over 250 attendees from around the world. Researchers presented research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Photos from poster session:…
…hands or be mismanaged. To address the issue, CITRIS’s Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology(TRUST) held a meeting on EMRs at UC Berkeley in April. Among the speakers were…
…by these successes, TRUST researchers are working on more defenses to combat the growing problem of online identity theft from developing a curriculum to ongoing research in collaboration with industry…
Enormous and costly communication towers like this one in Santa Fe, New Mexico are impractical in many situations. DAWN researchers seek to find more feasible solutions. (View larger image) (Photograph…
…experience has an overabundance of online libraries, image archives, media Web sites, video collections, and even personal research to choose from. But as a two-year study being conducted at UC…
Equipping soldiers on the battlefield, keeping store inventory up-to-date, and preventing counterfeit drugs from entering the supply chain: these may sound like three very different problems, but a technology dating…
…Astaneh-Asl and funded by the NSF as well, researchers will establish how bridge responds to blast and how much damage can occur due to certain size explosives. Once that is…
CITRIS researchers at UC Santa Cruz are studying resource allocation policies in a service environment. This work combines statistics, simulation, and optimization models with the objective of developing best-practice scheduling…
…Area is bad. But if the early results from the Mobile Millennium project are any indication, our ability to navigate through that traffic is about to get a lot better….
…question to CALVIN for her PhD thesis and revealed a whole new way of envisioning Hetch Hetchy’s future. “Null’s model results showed that water supply would not be much of…
… Click here to read about this year’s winners. See http://contest.berkeley.edu/contest_pages/1 for information on the competition and WCP-results-2006 for information on last year’s winners. ————————————— Deadline: All submissions…
Working on behalf of the city of San Francisco, UC Berkeley and CITRIS-affiliated researchers Jennifer King (School of Law), Professor Deirdre Mulligan (School of Information), and Professor Steven Raphael (School…
…addition to GPS coordinates, research can then be done to help solve the problem of decreasing fish populations. Most recorded fish data has to be done in real time without…
