All Research Exchange talks take place at noon on Wednesdays in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining 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. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
(Please note that talks and videos from the Fall 2006 semester are online:
Research Exchange-Fall-2006.)
Schedule of Speakers:
JANUARY 24 Matchmaking Global Energy Needs and Local Energy Technology
Arun Majumdar [Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, and Director of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute]
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JANUARY 31 Engineering and Management for Sustainability: Ideas for the Way Forward
Arpad Horvath [Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UC Berkeley, and Director of the Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing]
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FEBRUARY 2 Sustainable Energy Solutions by Catalysis
Claus Hviid Christensen [Technical University of Denmark and the Center for Sustainable and Green Chemistry.]
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FEBRUARY 5 Creating Opportunities in the Kibera Slums of Nairobi
Eirik Jarl Trondsen [Kibera Youth Self Help Group and Energy Africa Ltd.]
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FEBRUARY 7 Supporting Self-management of Health with Ubiquitous Computing
Anthony LaMarca [Associate Director, Intel Research Seattle]
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FEBRUARY 12 From Zero to Fifty in Two Years: An Update on Microsoft Research India Lab
P. Anandan [Managing Director, MSR India]
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FEBRUARY 14 Participatory Urbanism: Empowering Everyday Civic Engagement and Promoting Wonderment
Eric Paulos [Research Scientist, Intel Berkeley]
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FEBRUARY 21 Advanced Technologies for Observing a Changing Ocean
James Bellingham [Chief Technologist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute]
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FEBRUARY 28 Solar Energy for Heat, Light and Power
Roland Winston [Professor in the School of Engineering, UC Merced]
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MARCH 7 Using Mathematical Models to Help Understand Planar Cell Polarity in Developmental Biology
Claire Tomlin [Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley]
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MARCH 14 Government Actions and Innovation for Climate Change
Margaret Taylor [Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley]
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MARCH 21 The California Hazard Institute: At the Intersection of the Environment, Information Technology, and Complex Systems
John Rundle [Professor of Physics and Geology, UC Davis, and Director of the Center for Computational Science and Engineering]
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No Seminar on March 28
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APRIL 4 Ambulatory Sculptures and Dancing Robots
Alan Rath [Electronic Sculptor, Oakland]
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APRIL 11 Policy and Economic Issues in Dynamic Electricity Pricing
Severin Borenstein [Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, UC Berkeley, and Director of the University of California Energy Institute]
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APRIL 18 Sunlight as an Information Security Breach Disinfectant
Chris Hoofnagle [Senior Fellow, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Boalt Hall School of Law]
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APRIL 25 PhyloFacts: Integrating Evolutionary and Structural Analyses on a Multi-genome Scale for Protein Superfamily Elucidation
Kimmen Sjolander [Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley]
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MAY 2 The Noor Project: Fusion of Technology, Art, Mathematics, Beauty and Cultures
Steve Beck [Visiting Fellow and Executive in Residence, College of Engineering and Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, UC Berkeley]
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