Events Archive: 2010

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Mechanistic models for the large-scale circulation in the ocean
Timour Radko - NPS Monterey
Monday, January 4, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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A new strategy for detecting alternative splicing on a genomic scale
Dr. Kara Juneau
Thursday, January 7, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences Building, room 240
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Generalized Fast Multipole Method
Professor Eric Darve - Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
Monday, January 11, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Pluripotency Biomarker Signature: A novel multiplex gene expression assay for human induced pluripotent stem cells
Dr. Kathryn Sciabica - Beckman Coulter
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences, room 240
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Energy Efficient Electronics: Searching for the Milli-Volt Switch
Eli Yablonovitch [Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Covariance Estimation for Fat-Tailed Data
Drs. James Theiler and Don Hush - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 280
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Exploring Microbial Communities: Challenges & Prospects for Comprehensive Diagnostic Tools
Dr. Laurel Crosby of Stanford Genome Technology Center
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Sciences, room 240
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On the use of Design of Experiments (DOE) in the development of manufacturing processes for biologics
Dr. Dan Coleman - Genentech
Monday, January 25, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Sequencing Center Roundtable
Genome Center Director Nader Pourmand
Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM, Earth and Marine Sciences Seminar Room A340
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Applications of IT to Water Management
Peter Williams
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Beyond Copenhagen: Forging a Global Response to Climate Change
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
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Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Market and Behavioral Failures
Jim Sweeney
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Building 50 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Viral drug resistance: insights from ultradeep sequencing
Dr. Robert Shafer
Thursday, January 28, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 240
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Introduction to i4Energy
Arthur Rosenfeld and Mike Gravely
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Introduction to i4Energy
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Student competition at CITRIS: $30K in prizes
Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
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Global Game Jam kick off speakers
Edmund McMillen, Alex Neuse & Kate Compton
Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, 180
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Advances in Bayesian model-based clustering
Dr. Daniel Merl - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Instrument and Materials Development Supporting Robotic and Human Planetary Exploration
Bin Chen & Christopher P. McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, NASA Ames Research Park, Bldg. 239, ASL Commons (Room #138), Moffett Field, CA 94035
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Bringing Health into the 21st Century
Adam Bosworth
Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Breast Cancer Risk: Discovery to Diagnostic
Dr. Renee Stokowski - Perlegen Sciences
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences, room 240
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A Decision Making Framework and Simulator for Sustainable Electric Energy Systems
Marija D. Ilic
Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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A Decision Making Framework and Simulator for Sustainable Electric Energy Systems
Marija Ilic
Friday, February 5, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Rethinking "time" in 3.1 programming languages
Adam Smith
Monday, February 8, 2010, 3:30 PM to 4:40 PM, Engineering 2, Room 192
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The importance of scale for spatial-confounding bias and precision of spatial regression estimators
Prof. Chris Paciorek - Statistics,UC Berkeley and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Monday, February 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Search, Public Health and Real Estate
Bernt Wahl
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Epigenetic Applications on the SOLiD system
Andreas Tobler, Ph.D
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Physical Science Building Room 240
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Animating the Gesture Style of Particular Individuals
Prof. Michael Neff, UCDavis
Friday, February 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Micro-robots to help recovery from natural disasters, and creating games to engage people with serious issues
Friday, February 12, 2010, 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Online
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Mapping of The Pseudoautosomal Boundary in Four Canid Species and Rhesus Macaque
Jeremiah D. Degenhardt, Biological Statistics & Computational Biology, Cornell University
Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Assemble Styrofoam for Nanodevices
Ting Xu
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Gene and Sequence-Centric Framework For Analyzing Array and Next-Gen based large-scale datasets
Ilya Kupershmidt, Co-founder and VP of Products from NextBio
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences, room 240
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Players are Artists, too
Henry Lowood, Stanford
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM, Media Theater, M110
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Sustainability and Social Innovation: Doing Well by Doing Good
Peter Meehan, KoAnn Skrzyniarz, Joshua Levine & Sandy Skees
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz
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Regulatory genomics and epigenomics in fly and human
Manolis Kellis, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Friday, February 19, 2010, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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The Roles of Vortices and Waves in the Fluid and Particle Dynamics of Planet and Star Formation
Prof. Phil Marcus - Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Monday, February 22, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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The Expanded Gaming World
John Davison, GamePro
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM, Media Theater, M110
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Pandora Founder to speak on the Evolution of Radio
Tim Westergren
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Ferromagnetic Oxides for Spintronics
Dr. Arun Gupta, Department of Chemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Alabama
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 240
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Biomarkers in Viral Diseases
Dr. Uri Lopatin, Translational Medicine Leader at Roche
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 240
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Developing Games for 2020
Bob Mitchell, Ohai
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM, Media Theater, M110
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Lighting Efficiency Opportunities for California: A Laboratory to Marketplace Perspective
Michael Siminovitch
Friday, February 26, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Perspectives on the ACM Programming Contest
Don Chamberlin- UCSC Regents' Professor and Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Delayed frequency dependence, immunology, and the paradox of virus diversity
Prof. Fred Adler - Mathematics, University of Utah
Monday, March 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery
Ben Shneiderman
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 553
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Experiences with JavaScript Standardization
Dave Herman
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 3:30 PM to 4:40 PM, Engineering 2, Room 192
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Molecular Biology In Microfabricated Systems
Seth Stern
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Science Building 240
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Wireless Technology in the Smart Grid Space
Nate Ota
Friday, March 5, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY - The Science of Level Design
Kenneth Hullett
Monday, March 8, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 392
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A numerical scheme for the perturbed linear-quadratic regulator problems
Prof. Coskun Cetin - Mathematics & Statistics, Cal. State Sacramento
Monday, March 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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CITRIS / BSAC Workshop Sensors for Power Distribution: Operation, Fault Detection, and Maintenance
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY - Advances in Bayesian Modeling for Emulation, Sensitivity Analysis, and Calibration of Computer Models
Marian Farah
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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California Telehealth Network (CTN) Presentation
David Harry, CTN Assistant Director
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM, The Simulairum (E2-180)
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Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems
Joerg Meyer, Google
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Development of Software Supported Smart Renewable Microgrid Test Bed at NASA Ames Advanced Studies Laboratories
Joel Kubby, Associate Professor EE & Dr. Deepak Srivastava, NASA Ames Research Center
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, NASA Ames Research Park, Bldg. 239, ASL Commons (Room #138), Moffett Field, CA 94035
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Wireless Energy Monitoring and Management
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, UC Berkeley
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Meta Mouse
Kurtis Heimerl
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY - Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Extreme Value Analysis
Ziwei Wang
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Immune Monitoring Using High-throughput Sequencing
Scott Boyd, M.D., Ph.D., from Stanford University's Department of Pathology
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 240
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Current Smart Grid Activities at SDG&E
Tom Bialek
Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 553
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What makes domestic animals domestic? Identifying the genetic basis for tameness
Frank Albert
Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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What makes domestic animals domestic? Identifying the genetic basis for tameness
Frank Albert, Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany
Friday, March 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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The Art of Game AI: Sculpting Behavior with Data, Formulas, and Finesse
Kevin Dill, Lockheed Martin
Monday, March 15, 2010, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 180
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Graphics, Games, Characters and Touchpads -- a tour of recent research
Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science, New York University
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Security For and From GPS
Per Enge
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Cyberattack as a Tool of U.S. Policy?
Dr. Herbert S. Lin
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Living Room, Goldman School, 2607 Hearst Ave, Berkeley
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Entrepreneurship as an Extreme Sport
Tina Seelig
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 202 South Hall, UC Berkeley
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Early Bird and the eight-billion-year shrinking genome
John Harshman, California Academy of Sciences & Field Museum of Natural History
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Nanofluidics for Bioanalytical and Energy Applications
Professor Sumita Pennathur, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,UC Santa Barbara
Friday, March 19, 2010, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Rm. #330
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Student competition at CITRIS: $30K in prizes (LAST DAY!)
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
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Electrical Efficiency Trends of Computation over Time
Jonathan Koomey
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Conditional Subspace Clustering of Skill Mastery: Identifying Skills that Separate Students
Elizabeth Ayers, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley
Monday, March 29, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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New Fabricating Organic, Active Matrix Display Backplanes for Paper-like Displays and Flexible Sensors
Ana Arias [Assistant Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley]
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Abstracting Traditional Roles in Scientific Discovery and Inference: Application to Real-Time Astronomy
Josh Bloom
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Adversarial Learning With and Without Full Feedback
Jacob Abernethy
Friday, April 2, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Legal issues in Energy Policies and Climate Change
Deirdre Mulligan
Friday, April 2, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Making the Most of your Presentation
Jean-luc Doumont
Friday, April 2, 2010, 12:30 PM to 1:40 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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How Prototyping Practices Affect Design Results
Steven Dow, Ph.D., Postdoctural Scholar, Stanford University
Monday, April 5, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Remote Operation of the Atomic Resolution Microscope at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Lawrence F. Allard, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Monday, April 5, 2010, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2073
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Approximate Exchangeability
Persi Diaconis, Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford
Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Molecule Counting Technology for Personalized Healthcare
Ian Burbulis
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Timing Driven Physical Synthesis and Clock Network Synthesis in IBM
Dr. Cliff Sze
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
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STING: a new platform for label-free biosensing
Paolo Actis, PhD PostDoctoral Fellow ,Pourmand Lab
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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CAISO: What it is & What Does it Do Now and in the Future
John Goodin
Friday, April 9, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Risk Measurement Alternatives For Event Driven Processes: The Search For VaR's Takeout
Craig Peters
Monday, April 12, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Wastewater Recycle and Alternative Energy Technology Design at NASA Ames
Dr. Sherwin Gormly, NASA Ames Research Center
Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg. N239, ASL Commons (Room #138), Moffett Field, CA 94035
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The Opportunities & Challenges of Microfinance
Darren Miao
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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How You Can Make A Great Game
Daniel Kline from Crystal Dynamics
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, room 280
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Technology for High-efficiency Energy from Solar Irradiation
Carlos Coimbra
Friday, April 16, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Better numerical integration through random cooling schedules
Mark Huber, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Claremont McKen
Monday, April 19, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM,
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Advancing Health Through Technology: The Vision of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Once and Future Test: Testing to Enhance Lifetime Reliability
Professor Jennifer Dworak
Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Baskin Engineering Building, Room 330
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Single Bioparticle Sensing with an Integrated Nanopore-Optofluidic Chip
Mikhail Rudenko, Applied Optics Group
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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An overview of the Zorba XQuery Processor
Marios Zaharioudakis, Oracle
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 398
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CITRIS Big Ideas poster session
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Kvamme Atrium on the 3rd floor of Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
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Legal Implications of Climate Modeling
Daniel A. Farber
Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED)
Paulo Tabuada, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Monday, April 26, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Internet Security Threat Review for 2009
Tim Sammut, Senior Security Engineer, Cisco Security Research and Operations
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Affective Language in Social Technologies
Marilyn Walker
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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A Time Machine for XML
Daniela Florescu, Oracle
Thursday, April 29, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 398
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The Solar Cycle: Modelling and Predictability
Professor Steve Tobias, University of Leeds, UK
Monday, May 3, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Optical Micro- and Nanostructures for Quantum Information Processing and Magnetic Sensing
Dr. Kai-Mei Fu, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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Real-time Monitoring of Managed Aquifer Recharge
Andrew Fisher
Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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The genomes of Pyrobaculum oguniense - discovery and inference from sequence
David Bernick, Lowe Laboratory, UCSC
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 305
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Preparation and Analysis of Molecular Monolayers
Dr. Douglas Ohlberg, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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Combining predictive process models and Laplace approximations for fast Bayesian analysis of spatial data
Professor Jo Eidsvik, Department of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU, Norway
Monday, May 10, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Making Facebook Fast
Xiaoliang (David) Wei, Research Scientist, Infrastructure
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:45 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Nanopore sensors for biomoleculars
Dr. Wenonah Vercoutere, NASA Ames Research Center
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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Making Games and Making Companies: from grad school to start up to laying myself off, then working again for someone else.
Justin Hall
Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 11:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 280
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The Future is Not What it Used to Be
Jean Paul Jacob
Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Molecular-beam epitxy (MBE) for optical and electrical nano-devices
Dr. Michael M. Oye, NASA Ames Research Center
Thursday, May 13, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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3D-IC Design for Manufacturability and High Performance Computing
Dr. Rasit Onur Topaloglu
Monday, May 17, 2010, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Understanding Disease Resistance in Estuarine Populations and Response to Climate Change
Eileen E. Hofmann, Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University
Monday, May 17, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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Probing chemistry, structure, magnetism, and other material properties at the nanoscale
Dr. John Paul Strachan, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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Feedback and Control in Biological Circuit Design
Richard M. Murray, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
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Nanoimprint lithography and application in optical negative index metamaterials
Dr. Wei Wu, Hewlett-Packard Labs
Thursday, May 20, 2010, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center / UCSC Silicon Valley Center, Building 19, Rm. 2069
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Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010, 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
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Optional Polya Tree and Bayesian inference
Wing Hung Wong, Professor of Statistics and of Health Research and Policy Stanford
Monday, May 24, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 180
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Information-driven Cooperative Sampling Strategies for Spatial Estimation by Robotic Sensor Networks
Rishi Graham
Friday, May 28, 2010, 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: On-line Index Selection for Physical Database Tuning
Karl Schnaitter
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Game Relations, Metrics and Refinements
Vishwanath Raman
Thursday, June 3, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010, 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: A Unifying Theory for Optimal Hard Real-Time Multiprocessor Scheduling
Greg Levin
Wednesday, June 9, 2010, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010, 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Efficient Guaranteed Disk I/O Performance Management
Anna Povzner
Friday, June 11, 2010, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Senior Design Contest Final
Friday, June 11, 2010, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Simularium, Engineering 2
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Human cortical neurophysiology: science and application
Dr. Edward Chang, Assistant Professor, UCSF
Thursday, June 17, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 215
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Denmark-California Renewable Energy Summer Program LoCal-Re 2010 (FINAL DAY TO REGISTER)
Sunday, June 20, 2010, 12:00 PM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595H
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How to Succeed in Science
Dr. Jonathan Yewdell, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Friday, June 25, 2010, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Physical Science Building, room 240
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Christina Boucher: Combinatorial and probabilistic results in motif recognition
Christina Boucher, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Monday, June 28, 2010, 12:15 PM to 1:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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International Summer Institute for Modeling in Astrophysics (ISIMA). July 5th - August 13th 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010, 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
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Acting for embodied interactive narrative
Professor Ken Perlin, New York University
Friday, July 16, 2010, 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 192
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Message Drop and Scheduling in DTNs: Theory and Practice
Chadi Barakat, Research Scientist - INRIA
Monday, July 19, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, room 399
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Optimality Results for Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking
Professor James H. Anderson
Friday, July 23, 2010, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 375
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Interference Cancellation for OFDM Systems
Carrson Fung, Assistant Professor at the National Chiao Tung University
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Sequence Design for Broadband Communication Systems
Carrson Fung, Assistant Professor at the National Chiao Tung University
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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A High Throughput Cell Culture Platform
Prof. Rajeev Ram
Friday, July 30, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Dissertation Defense: Deduplication for Large Scale Backup and Archival Storage
Deepavali Bhagwat
Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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CBMS Regional Conference - Bayesian Nonparametric Statistical Methods: Theory and Applications. August 16-20, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010, 8:30 AM to 5:15 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Engineering Proteins for Charge Connectivity and Analysis
Justin Pahara, visitng Ph.D. student from University of Cambridge
Thursday, August 19, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
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Undergradate Research Poster Symposium
Friday, August 20, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering Courtyard
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Designing and Embedding Reliable Virtual Infrastructures
Wai-Leong Yeow
Thursday, August 26, 2010, 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Persistence in the Ephemeral: Modeling user interests for Multisession Personalized Search
Sarah Tyler
Friday, August 27, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Integrating Expert Knowledge and Experience in a Multi-Scale Agent
Ben Weber
Monday, August 30, 2010, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 392
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Playing with Words: From intuition to evaluation of game dialogue interfaces
Serdar Sali
Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Overview of applications of the optofluidic ring resonator
Dr. Jonathan Suter, Biological Engineering Department University of Missouri
Friday, September 3, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Baskin Engineering, Room 330
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Local Codes: Mapping and Transforming a City's Forgotten Public Space
Nicholas de Monchaux
Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: A Session-aware Recommender System in E-commerce sites
Jian Wang
Monday, September 13, 2010, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Physical Science Building, Room 305
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Integrating Various Linguistic Resources and Knowledges for Multilingual Word Sense using Graphical Models
Jiazhong Nie
Monday, September 13, 2010, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Challenges to the Integration of Renewable Resources at High System Penetration
Alexandra Von Meier
Friday, September 17, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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How Optics Drives Innovation at Corning
Dr. Alan Evans
Friday, September 17, 2010, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Simulating and Visualizing the Universe
Dr. Joel Primack, UCSC, Physics Department; Nina McCurdy, UCSC; Dr. Chris Henze, NASA Ames
Monday, September 20, 2010, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM, NASA Ames Research Center, Bldg. N239, ASL Commons (Room #138), Moffett Field, CA 94035
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Cell-based Microsystems for Biomedical Applications
Dr. Peter Ertl, Dept. of Health & Environment; Nano Systems at the Austrian Institue of Technology
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform
Pamela Samuelson, Professor at Berkeley Law School and the School of Information
Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Current research in the Stuart group
Josh Stuart, UCSC, Biomolecular Engineering
Thursday, September 23, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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Fabrication and Mechanical Characterization of Protein Nanofiber Composites
Tomas Oppenheim, Cambridge University's Nanoscience Centre
Thursday, September 23, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Results from the Building-to-Grid Testbed Experiments in Cory Hall
David Culler
Friday, September 24, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Computer Engineering Departments 23rd Alumni Reunion
Various, please see program outline
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Various, please see program outline
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Computer Engineering Celebrates 23rd Anniversary
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM,
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Posttranscriptional control of embryonic stem cell proliferation
Assistant Professor Richard Gregory, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Monday, September 27, 2010, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, Natural Sciences, Room 101
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AMS Faculty Presentations
Marc Mangel, Bruno Sanso, Athanasios Kottas, Eric Anderson
Monday, September 27, 2010, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Ludonaut: Model Checking Game Designs
Chris Lewis
Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Invasion of the Digital World in Art, Entertainment, Social Media and More
Jean Paul Jacob, Special Advisor to CITRIS
Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Learning about human history from genetic data
David Reich, Associate Professor, Dept. of Genetics, Harvard
Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM, Engineering 2, Simularium
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"When You Are Strange": Mutual Intelligibility, Intercoporeality, and Accountability in Stranger Encounters
Brian Lande, Ph.D, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington VA
Thursday, September 30, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2 Room 399
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Global Warming -- the Current Status: the Science, the Scandal, the Prospects for a Treaty
Richard Muller
Friday, October 1, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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AMS Faculty Presentations
Nicholas Brummell, Herbert Lee, Dejan Milutinovic, Raquel Prado
Monday, October 4, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Nonprofits and Innovation: How Technology, Social Media and Community are Transforming How We Solve Social Problems
Perla Ni
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Heterogeneous High-Performance Computing on Clusters with Many GPU Devices
Amnon Barak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (on sabbatical in 2010-11 at UCSC)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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BME280B-series
Phil Berman, UCSC, Biomolecular Engineering; Manel Camps, UCSC, Microbiology and Environmental Toxic
Thursday, October 7, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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Cyber Certainty - A glimpse of a secure cyber future
Edward B. Talbot, Sandia National Laboratories
Friday, October 8, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Timing is Everything: Poverty Alleviation and the Demand for Energy-Using Assets
Catherine Wolfram
Friday, October 8, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Personalized Content-Based Information Filtering for Semi-Structured Documents
Lanbo Zhang
Friday, October 8, 2010, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Algorithms for more accurate comparative genome sequence analysis
Glen Hickey: Computer Science, McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Montreal
Monday, October 11, 2010, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Dissecting self-renewal and programmed cell death in pluripotent stem cells
Dr. Thomas Zwaka, Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Monday, October 11, 2010, 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM, Natural Sciences Annex, Room 101
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AMS Faculty Presentations
Hongyun Wang, David Draper, Qi Gong, Abel Rodriguez
Monday, October 11, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Representations of the Lie algebra of finitary infinite matrices
Ivan Penkov (Bremen)
Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM, ack Baskin Engineering Building, Room 301A
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Innovation in the Health Care Enterprise
Yan Chow
Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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UCSC Hosts Symposium on Narrative Intelligence: AI Approaches for Games and Fiction
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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BME 280B- Series
Lindsay Hinck, UCSC; Assistant Professor Ed Green, UCSC
Thursday, October 14, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM, Physical Sciences Building, Room 305
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Self-powered wireless MEMS sensor modules for Smart Grid applications
Igor Paprotny
Friday, October 15, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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A Modern Bayesian Look at the Multi-Armed Bandit
Dr. Steven Scott, Google
Monday, October 18, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
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Second Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium and UCSC Systems Oktoberfest
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM, The Simularium (Engineering 2, Room 180)
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Extreme events and selection on life-histories in a stream-dwelling salmonid
Simone Vincenzi, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Parma
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Room 455
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Second Annual SRL/ISSDM Research Symposium
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM, The Simularium (Engineering 2, Room 180)
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Human Play Machine
Chaim Gingold
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Leveraging Machine-learning and Crowdsourcing to Process Text Messages in the world's Less-resourced Languages
Robert Munro
Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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From Big Satellites to Small - A Hubble Astronaut's Perspective
Jim Newman, Professor, Space Systems, Naval Postgraduate School
Thursday, October 21, 2010, 9:00 AM to 9:30 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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How We Do It: The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center's Model for Making a Difference
Nicole Biggart
Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: A Language for Sequential Monte Carlo with Inference on SMRF Models
Jacob Colvin
Monday, October 25, 2010, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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A near-term trajectory-based airport surface operation
Dr. Yoon Jung, NASA Ames Research Center
Monday, October 25, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Automatic Speech Recognition at 60: Old and Immature
Nelson Morgan
Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Energy Research and Commercialization at SRI
Barbara Heydorn
Friday, October 29, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Putting the pieces together: Patchy abundance data for long- term monitoring of (penguin) populations
Dr. Heather Lynch, University of Maryland
Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
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Formal Methods for Dependable and Secure Computing: From Algorithms, through Software, to Circuits
Sanjit A. Seshia
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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What's so good about the Smart Grid - A Look at Renewables
Terry Mohn
Friday, November 5, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Thinking Outside the Rectilinear Box: A mathematical and algorithmic foundation for electronic circuit layout using nonrectilinear shapes
Paul Morton
Monday, November 8, 2010, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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A 64 x 64 pixels 30uW Vision Sensor with Binary Data Compression
Massimo Gottardi
Monday, November 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Spacecraft Dynamics, Guidance and Control: analysis, simulations, experimentation
Dr. Marcello Romano, Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, November 8, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Building, Room 180
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Methods for transcript variant discovery and alternate expression analysis - application to the study of 5-FU resistance in colorectal cancer
Malachi Griffith
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Optimal Control of Switched Systems: An Embedding Approach with Application to a Wheeled Mobile Robot and to Real-Time Model Predictive Control of a dc-dc Boost Converter
Professor Ray DeCarlo: Fellow, IEEE, Purdue University
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Ten Myths of ICT for International Development
Kentaro Toyama
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Enabling Playable Social Models through Social Games
Joshua McCoy
Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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The Role of Demand Response in Renewables Integration
Duncan Callaway
Friday, November 12, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Flexible Covariance Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models
Dr. Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University, Department of Statistics
Monday, November 15, 2010, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 180
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Regions
Flavio Feferman
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595B
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Grounding New Words on the Physical World in Multi-Domain Human-Robot Dialogues
Mikio Nakana, Honda Research Institute, Japan
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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How Organic Semiconductors Work
Dr. Arthur P. Ramirez
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, The Simularium
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: RADIUM: Buffering for Predictable Performance
Roberto Pineiro
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 399
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Smart Grid Development at SMUD
Jim Parks
Friday, November 19, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Distributed, Scale-free Routing in Computer Networks using Interval Labels
Suchit Agarwal
Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Opto-Fluidic-Control-Systems
Dr. Dominik Rabus
Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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Bayesian models for genome-wide analysis of phylogenies and populations
Matthew Rasmussen
Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Designing Energy-Efficient Integrated Circuits and Systems
Elad Alon
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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p-Resistive networks for graph-based transduction
Mark Herbster, University College London
Thursday, December 2, 2010, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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The Demand Side: What Behavioral Patterns Stand in the Way?
James Sweeney
Friday, December 3, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Efficient Performance Guarantees on Storage Networks
Andrew Shewmaker
Monday, December 6, 2010, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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Next generation transcriptome sequencing reveals novel gene fusions in cancer
Christopher A Maher
Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Terrain-relative-navigation of AUVs: From the Seafloor to Drifting Icebergs
Stephen Rock
Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 595B
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K-12 Computational Thinking: Magic, Marketing, or something else?
Steve Cooper, Associate Professor, Stanford University
Wednesday, December 8, 2010, 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 215
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Applications of Content Driven Reputation
Ian Pye
Thursday, December 9, 2010, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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An HMM with common states and concatenated training for dialogue applications
Dr. Ryuichiro Higashinaka, NT&T
Thursday, December 9, 2010, 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 280
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Past, Present, and Future of Sequence Alignment
Krishna Roskin
Friday, December 10, 2010, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 599
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Energy Management in the Coming Internet of Things
Gene Wang
Friday, December 10, 2010, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Engineering 2, Room 506
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ADVANCEMENT TO CANDIDACY: Novice-Oriented Authoring Interfaces for Plan-driven Interactive Stories
James Skorupski
Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Engineering 2, Room 399