CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Fall 2009

All Research Exchange talks take place at noon on Wednesdays in the Dado & Maria Banatao Auditorium on the third floor of Sutardja Dai Hall Building on the UC Berkeley campus, except where noted.

As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast the day and time of the event. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

Please note that all CITRIS Talks can now be viewed on youtube.com/citris

FALL 2009 SCHEDULE

SEPTEMBER 2   Innovation in Search and Artificial Intelligence
Peter Norvig [Director of Research, Google]

Video | Slides

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SEPTEMBER 9  Early Results from the Universe Quest: An Authoring System for Astronomy Learning for Girl Scouts in a 3-D Immersive Gaming Environments
Carl Pennypacker [Associate Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory]

Video | Slides

 

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*SEPTEMBER 16   Spamalytics - An Inside View Of Spam Campaigns
Vern Paxson [EECS Department, UC Berkeley / International Computer Science Institute]
*3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley

The video will not be online at the speaker's request.

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SEPTEMBER 23   Achieving Safer Motherhood with Solar Powered Light and Communication
Laura Stachel [Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability; Founder, WE CARE Solar]

Video | Slides

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SEPTEMBER 30  Global Integrated Monitoring for the Environment, Public Health, and Disaster Management
Kevin Montgomery [CEO, Intelesense Technologies]

Video | Slides

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OCTOBER 7   A Computer Scientist Looks at the Energy Problem
Randy Katz and David Culler [Profs. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley]

Video | Slides

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OCTOBER 14   Some Advances in Nanotechnology at Berkeley
Alex Zettl [Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley]

Video | Slides

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OCTOBER 21   Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow
David Pescovitz [Co-editor of BoingBoing.net and Research Director at Institute for the Future]

Video | Slides

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OCTOBER 28 Medical Robotics and the Human-Machine Interface
Jacob Rosen [Prof. of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz]

Video | Slides

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*NOVEMBER 4   Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Positron Emission Tomography:  A New Tool for Biomedical Imaging?
Simon Cherry [Professor of Bioengineering, UC Davis]
*webcast from UC Davis

Video | Slides

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NOVEMBER 11  VETERANS’ DAY HOLIDAY
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NOVEMBER 18  CALVIN’s Adventures in Modeling California’s Statewide Water System
Jay Lund [Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Davis]

Video | Slides

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NOVEMBER 25   THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

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DECEMBER 2    Due Processing: Incarceration and the Digital Divide
West Hays and Alayna Johnson [B.A. students, UC Berkeley]

Video | Slides

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DECEMBER 9    Improving Access to Education
Gary Lopez [Executive Director, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education]

 

Video | Slides

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