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Most Popular Items: Energy and the Environment
- February 28, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for a talk by Roland Winston [Professor in the School of Engineering, UC Merced] at noon on Feb. 28 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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All Research Exchange talks take place at noon on Wednesdays in 290 Hearst
Memorial Mining Building on the UC Berkeley campus, As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line.
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- December 11, 2007: 1:00pm - 6:15pm
- Location: 306 Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for talks on innovative bi-national initiatives on topics ranging from
educating engineers, predicting cyclones, treating tuberculosis, and more. There will also be a panel discussion and networking reception.
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- November 29, 2007: 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Location: California Room, Terrace Center, University of California at Merced
 The California Air
Resources Board's (ARB) Global Warming Economic and Technology Advancement
Advisory Committee invites participation through the webcast of its next public meeting.
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The networked sensor regime is an exciting new design space that is emerging as a result of innovations in RF Communication technology and MEMS technology. TinyOS explores the software support that is required in that design space. TinyOS is a component-based runtime environment designed to provide support for deeply embedded systems, which require concurrency intensive operations while constrained by minimal hardware resources. For example, originally designed for the Smart Dust hardware platform, our scheduler fits in under 200 bytes of program memory.
There has been intensive research focused on the development of an electronic replacement for the ubiquitous UPC barcode. To replace consumer barcodes, ultra-low cost will be paramount. Organic based circuits may enable this due to their low fabrication cost. In this work, the investigators will develop the technologies necessary for RFID barcode replacement systems, and will use these to demonstrate a major subcomponent of any RFID system - the power harvesting subcircuit.
Current Research
Fast, automated generation of photo realistic 3D models of city environments for the purpose of simulations and interactive walk-, drive-, or fly-thrus. This goal requires the combination of techniques from various research areas.
Airborne Modeling
Generation of 3D models of rooftops and terrain shape from airborne laser scans and photos.
- Processing airborne laser scans
- Reconstructing surface geometry
- Texture mapping
Ground-Based Modeling
Generation of 3D models of facades and street scenery as seen from street level.
It involves in particular:
 Six projects were awarded a total of $30K at this year's CITRIS Big Ideas contest, with the top two prizes going to healthcare-related issues.
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This research addresses some important components in the theoretical and algorithmic signal processing machinery needed to make low-power, ubiquitous sensor networks a reality. The physical and hardware attributes as well as the computing and communication capabilities of these low-power, low-cost sensors, particularly those based on high-density low-cost MEMS devices, have the potential to revolutionize next-generation information technology.
- November 7, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 Please join us for this talk by Peidong Yang, Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley.
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- April 11, 2008: 5:00pm - 5:00pm
 CITRIS is proud to announce the third annual CITRIS White
Paper competition, which will give away $25K in cash prizes for the best ideas
that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.
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- October 25, 2006: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Contact: Yvette Subramanian
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Ali Shakouri, Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, at noon on October 25 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley, as part of the CITRIS Research
Exchange.
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- March 14, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Margaret Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley, at noon on March 14 in 3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley.
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- March 17, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
This talk was broadcast live online.
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- July 14, 2008: 10:30am - 11:30am
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley
For the first time in history, a solar-powered car is driving around the world without any carbon emissions. Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer is taking a small blue environmentally-friendly taxi around the world.
- View photos of CITRIS visit
- View lecture (video)
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Anyone who has ever sat near a cold window on a winter day or in direct sunlight on a hot day recognizes that windows can cause thermal discomfort. In spite of this broad recognition there is no straightforward method to quantify the extent of such discomfort. HVAC designers specify dedicated perimeter heating and cooling systems to mitigate window-related comfort problems, yet they use simplified assumptions that may not solve the comfort problems or that might lead to designs that are energy-inefficient.
- November 6, 2007: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Location: 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Homestake Mining Auditorium, UC Berkeley
 David Sandalow, Senior Fellow , Foreign Policy
Studies at the Brookings Institute. The video from this talk is now online here.
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- January 24, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Arun Majumdar, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and at UC Berkeley, entitled "Matchmaking Global Energy Needs and Local Energy Technology"
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To meet the objectives of the California Energy Commission (CEC) to create inexpensive and "smart" thermostats and electricity meters that could be installed in all residences in California to help conserve energy via demand-response "real-time" electricity pricing, we will combine CITRIS efforts in BSAC (Picoradio), BSAC(Smart Dust) and TinyOS (NEST) to meet the following goals:
>> Cost targets of $30 for the thermostat, $10 for the temperature node, and $50 for the electricity meter
- November 8, 2006: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Contact: Yvette Subramanian
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, at noon on November 8 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley, as part of the CITRIS Research
Exchange.
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The research efforts of the RUBINET Group focus on designing network infrastructures that are robust, secure, efficient, and support ubiquitous (mobile) computing. With the rapid technology advancement in wireless sensors, specialized hand-held devices, and smart appliances, the future network infrastructure has to be flexible enough to connect these heterogeneous end nodes over different networks, from the conventional wide-area Internet to wireless and satellite links.
PlanetLab is an open, globally distributed testbed for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale network services. There are currently more than 220 machines at 100 sites world-wide available to support both short-term experiments and long-running network services.
The Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at UC Berkeley has developed a sophisticated thermal comfort capable of modeling non-uniform, transient conditions. This model has been used to study occupant comfort in buildings and automobiles. 3M is interested in analyzing the impacts of 3M Solar Reflecting Film (SRF) on automobile occupant comfort. SRF has unique properties that reduce transmitted solar heat gain and lower the glass surface temperature. CBE will develop a model that predicts the behavior of SRF and incorporate that model into its automotive thermal comfort model.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring a program for Nano Mechanical Array Signal Processors (NMASP). The key focus of this program is on optimized combinations of innovative solutions in micro or nano fabrication, materials processing, device design, transduction mechanism, interconnects, and other relevant engineering approaches that directly address the performance issues in high-Q UHF mechanical resonator arrays for RF transceiver and signal processor applications.
- April 11, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Severin Borenstein, Director of the University of California Energy Institute at noon on April 11 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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- September 5, 2007: 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk on "Snowcover Patterns in the Sierra Nevada from Blended Satellite & Ground-Based Networks" by Roger Bales, Professor of Engineering, UC Merced on Sept. 5 at noon in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley.
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An Interactive Sensor Networks (ISN) is a distributed sensor and communication system where two things obtain: Some data processing is done at the sensor node location before being sent to the main processing location; and, the processing done at the sensor node location is configurable by the specific user in real time, to save system resources as well as make the output the user receives more friendly. Work performed in this project will consist of designing interactive sensor nodes, building the nodes, setting up a distributed system, and characterizing and testing.
- February 27, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Chris Somerville [Director of the EBI, UC Berkeley]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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The PicoRadio project strives to develop the range of technologies necessary for the realization of ultralow energy wireless sensor networks. These include the study of multi-hop networks, and media-access layers that support low variable-rate data transmission while ensuring energy-consumption levels that are close to the theoretical limits. The target is to create a node that consumes 50-100 uW to operate. This power consumption would allow it to power itself from the energy sources of the operating environment.
Cryptography is a fundamental building block for building information systems, and as we enter the so-called "information age" of global networks, ubiquitous computing devices, and electronic commerce, we can expect that the cryptography will become only more important with time.
We are developing theories, software, and computational tools for the hierarchical modeling of distributed hybrid and embedded systems by providing technologies for their composable specification, analysis, simulation, and synthesis.
We shall help survey the state-of-the-art in hybrid and embedded system technology. The Berkeley contribution to the report will focus on established research projects and major industrial R&D and standardization efforts. Specifically included in this survey will be the SystemC initiative (www.systemc.org) and other component-based
- February 21, 2008: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
The 2008 CITRIS poster and demonstration session will be in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley, from 2-5pm.
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- April 25, 2008: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
The top-12 finalists will present a poster session for this year's Big Idea competition, followed by the award ceremony for the judged winners.
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- March 12, 2008: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location: 240 Bechtel Engineering Center, UC Berkeley
Technology to harness marine energy is at its infancy. The VIVACE (Vortex induced Vibration for Aquatic Clean Energy) converter is a novel approach to harness hydrokinetic energy from currents even slower than 2 knots without using dams or turbines.
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PrIMe is a community activity aimed at the development of predictive reaction models for combustion. The primary motivation is to establish and demonstrate the community approach to kinetic-model development and, perhaps most importantly, establish a means for reaching community consensus on the models and data.
The initial objective is the creation of the PrIMe Data Warehouse.
The membership in PrIMe is open to all qualified individuals.
- April 25, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Kimmen Sjolander, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley, at noon on April 25 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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Today’s computing has been a great success. Healthcare, financial, communication, and entertainment industries rely heavily on data centers. By some estimates, the amount of data processed in data centers is doubling every year. At this pace, there will be needs for many ultrahigh-performance data centers processing 1000 times more data in the next decade. However, today’s data centers
- February 21, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 3110 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Please
join us for a talk by James Bellingham, Chief Technologist, Monterey Bay
Aquarium Research Institute, at noon on Feb. 21 in 3110 Etcheverry Hall.
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- December 6, 2007: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- Location: 105 Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley
 Please join three of the University's preeminent researchers in a discussion on the future of energy on the campus.
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Many software security issues cannot be addressed without a specification defining what security means. This project investigates secure API's and disciplined styles of programming that reduce the likelihood of security flaws and combines two related efforts: first, development of specification languages that enhance security without much cost to programmers, and second, tools that enforce these disciplines, such as the efficient insertion of security monitors into existing programs.
- January 31, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Professor Arpad Horvath at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 31 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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- January 30, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Mary Ann Piette [Research Director, DR Research Center, LBNL]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- March 7, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Claire Tomlin, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, at noon on March 7 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley.
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Because electricity cannot be
practically or economically stored in large quantities, the electricity
generation and distribution system must match supply and demand on a
minute-by-minute basis. Delivery of electricity for residential use has
traditionally been done by matching the supply to the demand, with little or no
control over the demand. This causes severe distortions in the system operation
and economics when the demand hits unusually high peak values. When these peaks
- March 19, 2008: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Michael Delwiche [Chair, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis]
Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Spring2008. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
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- February 28, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Please join us for a talk by Yasuhiro
Daisho, Professor of Engineering at Waseda University in Japan.
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- June 5, 2007: 8:00am - June 9, 2007: 4:00pm
- Location: UC Berkeley campus
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 Digital Earth is a visionary concept for the virtual and 3-D representation of the Earth that is spatially referenced and interconnected with digital knowledge archives from around the planet with vast amounts of scientific, natural, and cultural information to describe and understand the Earth, its systems, and human activities.
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 Read more about sustainable building and trusting Wikipedia in the latest CITRIS newsletter.
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- September 22, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
 Helene York is the director of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation, an
educational organization whose mission is to educate consumers, chefs, and food
service managers about how their food choices affect the environment and the
livelihoods of traditional food producers.
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 Come meet fellow project
leaders and learn about the work they're doing, as well as learn about Bears
Breaking Boundaries 2008.
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 In June 2008, CITRIS is organizing C-GRACE, one of several mission-critical
meetings leading up to the next U.N. Climate Summit: http://www.c-grace.org/
 Paul Wright, CITRIS Chief Scientist at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the 2007 NAMRI/SME S.M. Wu Research Implementation Award, which recognizes individuals for outstanding original research presented at the North American Manufacturing Research Conference.
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 To assist consumers, researchers at Berkeley
Institute of the Environment are
developing an online carbon-tracking calculator that produces a summary of all the greenhouse
gases produced by specific consumer goods.
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Pollution due to atmospheric particulates is a major cause of respiratory illnesses such as asthma particularly in California’s Central Valley which contains five of the ten most polluted cities in the United States. Real-time monitoring of the size and density of airborne particles is important for providing health advisories. Traditional monitoring techniques provide only sparse, localized measurements. This proposal seeks seed funding to investigate terrestrial remote sensing as a novel low-cost wide-coverage alternate to current approaches for monitoring atmospheric particulates.
- May 23, 2007: 8:00am - May 24, 2007: 4:00pm
Cleantech 2007 brings together investors, global research and development scientists
and engineers, government officials and business leaders implementing clean
technologies in their companies.
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 Ethan Miller's group has come up with a new approach, called Pergamum, which uses hard
disk drives to provide energy-efficient, cost-effective storage.
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CITRIS Center and Strategic Partner Development
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 CITRIS researchers at UC Berkeley are exploring new ways to use sensors
to monitor our infrastructure—including water and traffic.
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- May 22, 2008: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
- Location: Microsoft Mountain View Campus, Building 1
We are pleased to invite you to the fourth Microsoft Research Silicon Valley
Road Show on Thursday, May 22, at the company’s Mountain View campus to
personally experience some of the recent innovations coming out of Microsoft’s
research labs.
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- January 14, 2008: 10:19am - January 15, 2008: 10:19am
- More Information: Meeting site
- Location: LBNL, One Cyclotron Road, Berkeley
The conference will feature presentations on state-of-the-art
research, and will offer participants unique networking opportunities, with the
ultimate aim of forming joint research projects and public–private partnerships
in the development of new catalytic materials.
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 Read about innovative work at CITRIS in the latest newsletter, now on-line.
 Faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz,
have organized a renewable energy program that will bring together U.S.
and Danish students for four weeks this summer in Lolland, Denmark.
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 Shawn Newsam, an assistant professor in the School of Engineering at the
University of California, Merced, has been selected for a prestigious PECASE award from
the White House.
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- 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 cars, fuels, and mobility technologies.
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- April 27, 2008: 7:19am - 7:19am
- Location: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
The 2008 Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum will feature panels on nano electronics,
solar technology, health care, business and public policy, as well as
distinguished speakers.
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- March 7, 2008: 7:00am - 5:00pm
- More Information: Main Symposium site
- Location: Martin Luther King, Jr Student Union, UC Berkeley
The 2008 BERC symposium brings together leaders in energy from both the public and
private sectors to discuss the innovative science, technology, and requisite
public policies that will shape the future of energy in the United States and
across the globe
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- 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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 UC Davis will host GoingGreen 2007 on September 10-12, and the Clean Energy Showcase on October 11.
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 Ming Wu has been appointed the new Chief Scientist for
CITRIS at Berkeley. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences at Berkeley, and Co-Director of Berkeley Sensors and
Actuators Center (BSAC).
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 The April newsletter features stories about technology for social impact: CellScope (cell phone + microscope) and enabling eye care in India using cheap, reliable Wi-Fi.
The TechNet Innovation Summit brings together the nation’s top leaders in technology to
discuss emerging industry trends as well as the public policies that will shape
the future of our nation.
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A perspective by Professor Daniel Kammen on the energy crisis and the role of the C-GRACE meeting with CITRIS and the Copenhagen Climate Council.
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Innovative Energy Research Under One Roof
 The June 2008 newsletter is now online, with two stories on key energy projects in both engine development and predicting solar availability for utilities.
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The video from Chris Somerville's talk on "Development of Cellulosic Biofuels" is now available online.
- February 27, 2009: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: CITRIS Headquarters Building, UC Berkeley
 On Feb. 27, 2009, CITRIS will mark the official opening of its new headquarters, Sutardja-Dai Hall, with a day of talks and celebration.
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- May 13, 2008: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley
Dr. Leslie Field, Founder and Managing Member of SmallTech Consulting, LLC and the Founder and CEO of MEMS Insight, Inc.
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 An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in
South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones
to teach English to children in India have won funding for two UC Berkeley professors
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Shawn Newsam is developing a network of several dozen cameras that can
collect data and possibly analyze air particulates around the Central
Valley. The project could provide a quick, easily accessible way to
evaluate local air quality in real time.
The
University
of
California
at
Merced
is the newest campus in the UC system. Located in the central valley of California, where both the population and pollution are rapidly increasing,
Merced
A recent TechNet summit is discussed in PC World, with CITRIS research a main focus of the story.
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 Energy now lost as heat during the production of electricity could be harnessed
through the use of silicon nanowires synthesized via a technique developed by
CITRIS-associated researchers at UC Berkeley.
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 The latest edition of the CoolClimate Calculator shows people as well as cities and businesses how their lifestyles contribute to
global warming and identifies areas where they can reduce their footprint.
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- January 15, 2008: 7:00am - January 16, 2008: 2:14pm
- Location: Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory
Danish scientists work with Lawrence Berkeley Labs on future fuels
A catalyst starts or speeds up a chemical reaction. On Monday, the conference
The Rational Design of Catalytic
Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Berkeley Lab) was in itself a catalyst in bringing Danish scientists together
with their American counterparts in a quest to create transportation fuels of
the future.
Nobel Prize winner, Steven
Chu, director of Berkeley Lab, opened the conference by explaining how new
catalytic methods are at the heart of energy storage and will be the long term
solution for transportation fuels. He was excited to be working with Denmark
on this as the country has long been a leader of research and development in
renewable energy sources.
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The city of Beijing will play host to the 2009 Delta Cup – International Solar Building Design Competition.
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The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy (GTEA)
provides science and engineering research faculty, post-docs and doctoral
students with the necessary knowledge and skills to move environmentally
sustainable and green technology research out of the laboratory and into
practice.
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SIMI is a proof-of-feasibility project that combines state-of-the-art
satellite and radar data image processing with real-time data from
ground solar stations in order to determine solar energy availability
 Led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, and using innovative collars made at CITRIS, the project will shed light on the movement, range, physiology, and
predatory habits of pumas.
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CITRIS researchers are developing engines that use 15 percent less fuel than gas engines and emit only 30 percent of the NOx of a typical diesel engine. Thus, they appear to combine the best of both engines. Except for one problem: temperature variations.
"Minimal Manufacturing through Ink-jet technology", Sept. 12, 2007 (video coming soon)
- February 19, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location: Building 50 Auditorium, LBNL
Berkeley Lab is hosting a lecture by NY Times Columnist Tom Friedman on Tuesday,
February 19, in Building 50 Auditorium at 4:00 PM.
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Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-Fall2007. As always, these talks are free, open to the public. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is an electric-powered autonomous transportation system that closely follows the car architecture and avoids the pitfalls of bus and rail mass transit without requiring fuel cells or advanced battery technology. Lightweight 2-4 passenger vehicles run along an elevated guideway that can be built over existing roads with traffic managed by a control system similar to packet routing (with non-destructive arbitration) over the internet.
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Videos from CITRIS talks and events are now online at 
Currently, CITRIS has awarded 
A group that wants to make a cheap fuel cell that can efficiently convert hydrocarbon fuel into
electricity won this year's 