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Three Short Plays on Technology and Culture

  • December 12, 2008: 6:15pm - 7:00pm
  • Location: Gordon and Betty Moore Lobby, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
As part of the CITRIS Holiday Gala, members of Berkeley's Media Theater Workshop will staged three short plays, "Best E-mails Ever" "Little Red Flag," and "Missed Connections," that combine video projection with live performance. The performance is now online.

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CITRIS Holiday Gala

  • December 12, 2008: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Location: Gordon and Betty Moore Lobby, Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley

Please join us for our annual holiday gala on the Berkeley campus, featuring refreshments and live entertainment.

 

 

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Dan Sperling to speak on "Two Billion Cars and California Climate Policy "

  • December 8, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
UC Davis Professor Daniel Sperling will speak on "Two Billion Cars and California Climate Policy."  Broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast.

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CANCELED: Danish Ambassador

  • December 5, 2008: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Sibley Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled and will be rescheduled for the spring.

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The Networks of (Green) Innovation

  • December 3, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus

Andrew Hargadon will speak today at noon,  broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast, and questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. 

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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Jerrold Marsden on Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control

  • November 25, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Jerrold Marsden, Professor of Engineering and Control & Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology will speak at the Nokia Distinguished Lecture on Cyber-Physical Systems.

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Open Innovation Speaker - Henry Chesbrough

  • November 19, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  • Location: 110 South Hall, UC Berkeley
Henry Chesbrough will present a paper today on the subject of Industry-University relations in 110 South Hall. This talk will not be broadcast.

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Facilitating Scientific Insight with Sunfall

  • November 19, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Cecilia Aragon will discuss software tools that support, not only insight into complex data, but collaborative science discovery. 

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Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)-- CITRIS and LBNL @ SC08, Austin, Texas, November 17-21

  • November 18, 2008: 10:30am - November 20, 2008: 12:00pm
Are you planning to attend SC08  (2008 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis) this November 18th-20th at the Austin Convention Center in Texas?  Berkeley Computational Science and Engineering-- LBNL & CITRIS leader in High Performance Computing and Education, will be exhibiting at booth #540 (The Lawrence Berkeley National Booth). We are hoping you can stop by and meet with us and learn more about exciting activities within Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and UC Berkeley.  The CSE - LBNL and CITRIS presentation is scheduled for November 19th, 10:30 am - 12 noon. To set up appointment for other days and times, please email to: Nikravesh@eecs.berkeley.edu (CSE Executive Director). SC08 website: 
http://sc08.supercomputing.org/

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CITRIS Distinguished Speaker: Friedemann Freund from NASA

  • November 17, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: The Simularium, E2-180, UC Santa Cruz
Please Join us for a talk on Earth’s Many Voices – a Unified Theory for Pre-Earthquake Signals at UC Santa Cruz.

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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: George Pappas on A Theory of Robustness for Cyber-Physical Systems

  • November 13, 2008: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
  • Location: Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Nokia Distinguished Lecture: George Pappas on A Theory of Robustness for Cyber-Physical Systems

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Pergamum: Energy Efficient, Reliable, Disk-Based Archival Storage

  • November 12, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus

Ethan Miller [Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz] wil speak today at noon at 

mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast, and questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.

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Distinguished Speaker Series: James Kaufman

  • November 10, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Dr. Kaufman will speak on "Creating a Public Health Affinity Domain for the Middle Eastern Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance (MECIDS)"

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Open Innovation Speaker Series, Linus Dahlander

  • November 5, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Progressing to the Center: The Antecedents and Consequences of Lateral Authority.

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Initial Successes and Failures of Monitoring Public Spaces

  • November 5, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus

Richard Robinson [Chief Operations Officer, City of San Francisco] 

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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Naomi Leonard on Collective Motion and Sensing Networks in Nature and Robotics

  • November 4, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Naomi Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University will speak at the Nokia Distinguished Lecture on Cyber-Physical Systems.

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Open Innovation Speaker Series: Ronald Wolf

Dr. Wolf will speak on the activities going on within Philips to create new venture spin-off firms out of Philips internal R&D projects that are no longer being pursued internally.

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International Business Development: Applying Managerial Skills to Social, Environmental, and Health Care Problems

  • October 29, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

Sebastian Teunissen [Executive Director, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy, UC Berkeley]. 

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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Bill Spencer on Smart Sensing Technology

  • October 28, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Bill F. Spencer, Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will speak at the Nokia Distinguished Lecture on Cyber-Physical Systems.

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Stephen Benson, co-Founder, and CEO, Innovation Exchange (IX)

Stephen Benson will speak on "The Innovation Exchange Model of Open Innovation"


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CellScope: Mobile Imaging for Disease Diagnosis

  • October 22, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus

Dr. Erik Douglas, leader of the CellScope project  at UC Berkeley. 

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A tribute to Professor Otto Smith (Nokia Distinguished Lectures on Cyber-Physical Systems)

  • October 21, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Miroslav Krstic, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Watch live at noon: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast

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Computing for Socio-Economic Development at UCSC

  • October 20, 2008: 11:00am - 12:00pm
  • Location: E2-506 UC Santa Cruz
Kentaro  Toyama, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India, will speak at Santa Cruz.

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Prith Banerjee from HP Labs to speak at UCSC

Dr. Banerjee is the keynote speaker for the UC Santa Cruz Research Review Day.

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Tim Unwin to speak at TIER workshop

  • October 17, 2008: 9:15am - 10:00am
  • Location: 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
"ICT4D: Reflections on an Unfinished Journey," by Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at University of London as part of the TIER Workshop

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TIER Workshop

  • October 17, 2008: 9:00am - October 18, 2008: 3:00pm
  • More Information: TIER Website
  • Location: 112 Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
This two-day workshop featured talks and demonstrations by scientists working with technology in developing regions.

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Python for scientific computing

  • October 16, 2008: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Introductory workshop covering the use of the Python programming language for scientific computing on campus, on October 9 and October 16, 2008.

https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/py4science/workshop_berkeley_2008.html

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Wireless Networks for Cars

  • October 15, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley Campus

Raja Sengupta will speak as part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley and is broadcast live online at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast at noon.

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CITRIS Distinguished Speaker: "The Brain-like Vision"

  • October 9, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Edgar Koerner will speak on understanding the brain architecture and applying lessons to increasing capabilities for autonomous interaction of Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO. View this talk online: mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast

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Python for scientific computing

  • October 9, 2008: 9:00am - 3:00pm
  • Location: Tolman 5101
Introductory workshop covering the use of the Python programming language for scientific computing on campus, on October 9 and October 16, 2008.

https://cirl.berkeley.edu/fperez/py4science/workshop_berkeley_2008.html

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