Events Archive for 2009

Year:

Label-free Digital Detection of DNA and MicroRNA Targets
Henrik Persson - Stanford University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Orchestra: Sharing Inconsistent Data in a Consistent Way
Zack Ives - University of Pennsylvania
Hosted By: Associate Professor Wang-Chiew Tan
Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM
Applied Nonparametric Bayes
Mike Jordan - UC Berkeley
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, January 12, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The Future of Our Pasts: Digital Memories and Lifelogging
Prof. Steve Whittaker - University of Sheffield
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Yi Zhang
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
BME Seminar
TBA
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Advances & Defenses: Low Impedance Microelectrode for Biomedical Applications
Shirin Zarrabi
Hosted By: Michael Isaacson
Friday, January 16, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: A Reputation System for the Wikipedia
B. Thomas Adler
Hosted By: Luca de Alfaro
Friday, January 16, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Ensembles of Weak Object Detectors
Damian Eads
Hosted By: David Helmbold
Friday, January 16, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
QB3/CITRIS Distinguished Lecture: Venture Capital and Universities - How VCs View Investment Opportunities from Academia
Robert Siegel (X/Seed Capital Management)
Hosted By: CBSE/CITRIS
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Anomalous Change Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery
James Theiler - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hosted By: Professor David Helmbold
Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Six Pillars of Success: Analytical Screen for Assessing Potential for a Life Science Company
Audrey S. Erbes
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
CITRIS Distinguished Lecture Series: Crowds and Emergent Teamwork
Craig Reynolds
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Friday, January 23, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Optofluidics for Biomolecular Analysis
David Erickson - Assistant Professor Cornell University
Hosted By: Associate Professor Holger Schmidt
Monday, January 26, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Detecting Anomalies in Space and Time, with Application to Biosurveillance
Ron Fricker - NPS Monterey
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, January 26, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Time for Change: Meeting the Storage Needs of Computational Science at Extreme Scale
Dr. Rob Ross
Hosted By: ISSDM/PDSI/UCSC
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM
CITRIS Research Exchange Series: Beyond Transistor Scaling: New Devices for Ultra-low-energy Information Processing
Tsu-Jae King Liu [Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley]
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Revealing small molecule bioactivities using yeast genomics
Robert P. St. Onge Ph.D - Stanford University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Analyzing Internet social media: visualizing social networks in computer networks
Dr. Marc A. Smith - Chief Social Scientist, Telligent Systems Research
Hosted By: Lise Getoor, Visiting Researcher
Friday, January 30, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Comprehensive monitoring of RNAs and proteins that define immune repertoire during pathogenesis: opportunities and challenges
Andrew Fire - Stanford University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Friday, January 30, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Advances & Defenses: Secure, Energy-Efficient, Evolvable, Long-Term Archival Storage
Mark W. Storer
Hosted By: Ethan Miller
Monday, February 2, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 Architecture Overview, and NVIDIA PhysX and GeForce 3DVision demos
Craig Wittenbrink - NVIDIA
Hosted By: Professor Alex Pang
Monday, February 2, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Bayesian Clustering with Regression
Fernando Quintana
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, February 2, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Creation of an Innovative New Technology
Dr. David H. Lynch - Scientific Advisory Board, Canadian Network for Vaccines and Immunotherapuetics
Hosted By: Professor Holger Schmidt
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Future Cyberinfrastructure for Next Generation Healthcare
S.J. Ben Yoo [Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UC Davis]
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
The Development of the Internet: Implications for Our Future
Douglas E. Van Houweling, Ph.D.
Hosted By: Baskin School of Engineering/CITRIS
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances in Forensic DNA: Development of Molecular Applications for Saving Lives
Steven Lee - Director Forensic Science Program, San Jose State University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Functional ANOVA Models for Comparing Sources of Variability in Climate Model Output
Cari Kaufman, Berkeley
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, February 9, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Can Renewable Energy Save the World?
Peter Borden, Awais Khan and Ali Shakouri
Hosted By: Michael Isaacson and Nirvikar Singh
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
SSRC Seminar: Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems (Andrew W. Leung)
Andrew W. Leung
Hosted By: Andrew Leung
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
BERC 2nd Annual Lecture: "The Green Collar Economy"
Van Jones, Founding President of Green For All, Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCB
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
Why do S. cerevisiae have introns?
Kara Juneau - Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
CITRIS Poster Session During BEARS 2009
Hosted By: UC Berkeley
Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Research Novel Microfluidic Tools to Manipulate and Analyze Single Cells
Michelle Khine - Assistant Professor of Engineering, UC Merced
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
New Sequencing Technologies at JGI and Their Applications in Genomics Researches
Feng Chen - DOE Joint Genome Institute
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Devices for Teaching Math to the Blind
Arthur Karshmer - University of San Francisco
Hosted By: Associate Professor Roberto Manduchi
Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
UC Berkeley Energy Symposium 2009: Bold Ideas for a New Energy Landscape"
Mary Nichols, John Hofmeister
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCB
Monday, February 23, 2009 8:00 AM to 6:30 PM
Advances & Defenses: Relations, Metrics and Applications of Stochastic Games
Vishwanath Raman
Hosted By: Luca de Alfaro
Monday, February 23, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Remote Neuronal Control of Insect Flight
Michael Maharbiz, Asst. Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Designing a Virtual Information Telescope Using Mobile Phones and Social Participation
Romit Roy Choudhury
Hosted By: Associate Professor Katia Obraczka
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
SOLiD Applications: Today and Tomorrow
Dr. Roland Wicki Director - SOLiD Application Development, ABI
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Honored Faculty / Honored Books
Hosted By: The Library, Baskin School of Engineering, and the Physical and Biological Sciences Division
Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Information and Visual Impairment: designing position- and location-based technologies for people with visual disabilities
Dr. Josh Miele - Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco
Hosted By: Associate Professor Roberto Manduchi
Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Directions for studying the mobility of cell-surface proteins
Daniel Coombs - UBC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, March 2, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Mobile Phones as Sensors for Enhancing Lifestyles
Quinn Jacobson [Research Leader, Nokia Research Center - Palo Alto]
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Ultrafast Energy transport in Nanomaterials
Stefan Dilhaire - University Bordeaux 1, France
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Oxide based memristive junctions: switching, forming and device family
Dr. Jianhua Yang - Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Hosted By: Associate Professor Nobuhiko Kobayashi
Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Parallel Search On Video Cards
Tim Kaldewey - UCSC's Systems Research Group
Hosted By: Professor Scott Brandt
Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Parallel Computing with CUDA on GPUs
John Nickolls, Ph.D. - Director of Architecture NVIDIA Corporation
Hosted By: Andrea Di Blas
Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM
Numerical Simulation of an Asymptotically Reduced System for Rotationally Constrained Convection
Michael Sprague - UC Merced
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, March 9, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Investigating Efficient Real-time Performance Guarantees on Storage Networks
Andrew Shewmaker
Hosted By: Professor Scott Brandt
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Professor Marc Mangel speaks on ecology, conservation and public policy
Professor Marc Mangel
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
How AMD's GPUs work, and an OpenCL Overview
Justin Hensley - AMD's Graphics > Product Group Office of the CTO
Hosted By: Andrea Di Blas
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Innovation and Tech Transfer in Start-ups
John LeMoncheck President and Chief Executive Officer, SiBEAM
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Imaging Information in DNA
Steven Quake - Stanford University
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Nader Pourmand
Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
GPU and PC System Architecture
John Tynefield - NVIDIA
Hosted By: Andrea Di Blas for CMPE 110
Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Application-driven architecture' design methodology
Victor Lee - Intel Corp.
Hosted By: Hosted by Andrea Di Blas for CMPE 220
Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:00 PM to 7:45 PM
The Mathematics of Gaming and Sport
Prof. Joseph B. Keller - Stanford
Hosted By: Joint Colloquium between the Applied Mathematics and Statistics dept. and the Mathematics dept.
Monday, March 16, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Predictable High Performance Data Management Leveraging system resource characteristics to efficiently improve performance and predictability
Tim Kaldewey
Hosted By: Scott Brandt
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Distributed Connectivity of Mobile Robotic Networks
Michael Schuresko
Hosted By: Jorge Cortes
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Discourse Architecture
Warren Sack [Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz]
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCSC
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
IEEE Region 6 Central Meeting
Chris Knudsen
Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
When Video Games Became Casual
Jesper Juul
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Monday, March 30, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Spatial Sparsity Induced Prediction for Images and Video: A Simple Way to Reject Structured Interference
Onur G. Guleryuz
Hosted By: Professor Peyman Milanfar
Monday, March 30, 2009 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Web-Scale Language Models and Data
Peter Norvig - Google
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, March 30, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
First Annual Social Fiction Conference
Hosted By: Crown College
Friday, April 3, 2009 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Mathematical challenges in Next-Generation Aviation
Bruce Sawhill
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, April 6, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Apple Deploy Studio
Dane Riley
Hosted By: Hillary Hamm
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Launching your Start Up in the New Financial Market
Rebecca Lynn [Principal, Morgenthaler Ventures]
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Seq-ing functions for RNA binding proteins
Jeremy Sanford, MCD Biology
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, April 9, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Transcriptional Regulatory Activity of the Ultraconserved Elements During Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation
Courtney Onodera
Hosted By: David Haussler
Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Systems for Facilitating Information Integration
Laura Chiticariu
Hosted By: Wang-Chiew Tan
Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Concurrent Communication Medium Access for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Marzieh Veyseh
Hosted By: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Semiconductor Nanowire Based Optoelectronic Devices: Physics, Simulation and Design
Jun Hu
Hosted By: Sung-Mo "Steve" Kang
Friday, April 10, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Reduced Modeling and Numerical Investigation of the Magnetorotational Instability
Keith Julien - Applied Mathematics Department, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, April 13, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Smart Contact Lenses
Tingrui Pan - Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Engineering Smart and Web-based Systems to Support Customers in a Global Economy
Joe Pinto, Cisco's Senior Vice President, Technical Services
Hosted By: The Dean's Office
Friday, April 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Engineering Smart and Web-based Systems to Support Customers in a Global Economy
Joe Pinto, Cisco's Senior Vice President, Technical Services
Hosted By: Baskin Engineering's Distinguished Lecture Series
Friday, April 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Engineering Futures: Group Process
Cathy Chang, IBM
Hosted By: Tau Beta Pi
Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Energy dependence and magnetic field-induced quenching of scattering-enhanced tunneling
Kasey Russell - Harvard University
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Monday, April 20, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Adaptive Scheduling for Time-sensitive Applications
Luigi Palopoli - University of Trento, Italy
Hosted By: Professor Scott Brandt
Monday, April 20, 2009 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Dynamics and Control of Formation Flying Satellites
Terry Alfriend - NPS Monterey
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, April 20, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Lean Construction: A Perspective on the "Production" of Projects
Iris Tommelein - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Mosquito Behavior and Malarial Interventions
Marc Mangel - Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UCSC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
UCSC Baskin Engineering 2009 Alumni Reunion
Pat Mantey
Saturday, April 25, 2009 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Apple Iphone Developer University Program
Dane Riley
Hosted By: Hillary Hamm
Monday, April 27, 2009 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Scheduling in Micro-kernel Based Systems
Jean Wolter - Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Hosted By: Professor Scott Brandt
Monday, April 27, 2009 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Electrophoretic and Nanopore Methods for Biomolecule Analysis
Dr. Andre Marziali - Director, Engineering Physics Univ. of British Columbia
Hosted By: Professor Mark Akeson
Monday, April 27, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Quantifying Connectivity in the Coastal Ocean
David Siegel - UC Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Institute for Computational Ear
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, April 27, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Roundtable Discussion on Technology for Development
Led by Tapan Parikh -Assistant Professor in the School of Information, UC Berkeley
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Fun Assistive Technology: Embedding Games and Play into Systems for People with Disabilities
Sri Kurniawan, Computer Engineering UCSC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Gravity waves and tidal friction
Neil Balmforth - UBC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, May 4, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
ICs and MEMS manufacturing at CMP: present and future
Bernard Courtois - Director [Laboratory TIMA]
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Understanding intelligence and activity by building complete, embodied Agents
Associate Professor Ian Horswill
Hosted By: Associate Professor Jim Whitehead
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Connecting Those Who Need it Most
Mark Summer - Co-founder, Inveneo
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
SSRC Seminar: Data Sequentiality Potential for Data De-duplication Schemes
Stephanie Jones
Hosted By: Stephanie Jones
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Proposal to Transform the UCSC Campus into UC's Sustainable Community
Jonathan Trent, NASA Ames
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, May 7, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
4th generation cellular technology: Features, benefits and challenges of LTE
Tom McKay, Founder Tidal microWave LLC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Matthew Guthaus
Thursday, May 7, 2009 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Thin Film Encapsulation Technologies for Organic Electronics
Samuel Graham - Asst. Professor & the Joseph H. Anderer Faculty Fellow Georgia Tech Institute
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Friday, May 8, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Reproductive Ecology and Scientific Inference of Steepness, A Fundamental Metric of Population Dynamics and Strategic Fisheries Management
Marc Mangel - Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, UCSC
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, May 11, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Bioinformatic Approaches to DNA Sequence Analysis: Examples from human infectious disease
Keith Crandall, Prof and Chair Dept. of Biology, Brigham Young University
Hosted By: Professor Phil Berman
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Exploring Human Body Shape and Motion
James Davis - Associate Professor [UCSC]
Hosted By: Math Colloquium
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: Whole-Building Energy Analysis through Wireless Networked Sensing
Gilman Tolle, Arch Rock
Hosted By: CITRIS
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: A Bayesian nonstationary GP model via a treed process-convolution approach
Waley Liang
Hosted By: Herbert Lee
Sunday, May 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Overview of Ongoing Research Activities at the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne - EPFL)
Prof. Yusuf Leblebici Director - Microelectronic Systems Laboratory
Hosted By: Professor Shakouri & the Quantum research group
Monday, May 18, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Selective Genotyping and Phenotyping Strategies in a Complex Trait Context
Saunak Sen - Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, May 18, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Managing City 2.0: The Role of Knowledge Discovery (Chandrakant Patel, Hewlett Packard)
Chandrakant Patel, Hewlett Packard HP Fellow and Director, Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab
Hosted By: Ethan L. Miller
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CMOS Temperature Sensors
Prof. Kofi Makinwa - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Information Retrieval Evaluation and Test Collections
Ian Soboroff - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Yi Zhang
Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Happy Phase A Haplotyping Phasing Method
Ted Goldstein - BINF grad student, UCSC & Aaron Cozen - postdoc, Lowe lab, UCSC)
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, May 21, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Mobile Phones as Sensors for Enhancing Lifestyles
Quinn A. Jacobson, Ph.D. - Research Leader Nokia Research Center Palo Alto
Hosted By: Professor Katia Obraczka
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Science & Justice Working Group - Technoscience and social change: a panel discussion
Various Speakers
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
BME 280B Seminar
Senkei Umehara (postdoc in the Pourmand group, UCSC) & Jing Zhu (postdoc, Haussler group, UCSC)
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM
Network Security: Overview and Emerging Threats
Tim Sammut
Hosted By: Professor Katia Obraczka & Brad Smith
Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
MOBILE IMAGE MATCHING - TOWARDS MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY
Bernd Girod - Stanford University
Hosted By: Professor Peyman Milanfar
Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Game platforms - present and future.
Lacky Shah - Nvidia Corp.
Hosted By: Andrea Di Blas
Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM
Fifty Years of Data: How advances in database management have helped to shape our world
Don Chamberlin
Hosted By: Professor Ethan Miller
Monday, June 1, 2009 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Recent Results and Open Questions for Kernel Methods: An Overview
Ingo Steinwart - Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
Hosted By: Professor Manfred Warmuth
Monday, June 1, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Statistical issues in the analysis of contingency tables
Adrian Dobra, Department of Statistics and Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, U
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, June 1, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Regional Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from California
Marc Fischer, LBL
Hosted By: Math Colloquium
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Targeting games to platforms
Jon Webb, Platform Technology Guru - Developer Support Group, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Hosted By: Andrea Di Blas
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:45 PM
CITRIS: 6th International Workshop on Body Sensor Networks
Hosted By: CITRIS/UCB
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Phononics: a new science and technology for processing information with phonons and controlling heat flow
Professor Baowen Li - Dept. of Physics, National University of Singapore
Hosted By: Assistant Adjunct Professor Zhixi Bian
Thursday, June 4, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
The Distribution and Ecology of Southern Elephant Seals and Adlie Penguins on the Holocene Ross Sea Coast
Paul Koch, UCSC Earth & Planetary Sciences
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
12th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
Hosted By: Division of Physical and Biological Sciences and the Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Thursday, June 4, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Electric: a Multithreaded Integrated-Circuit Design System
Dr. Steven M. Rubin
Hosted By: Matt Guthaus & IEEE UCSC student chapter and IEEE Monterey Bay Subsection
Thursday, June 4, 2009 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
2009 Undergraduate Award Ceremony
Friday, June 5, 2009 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Measuring Independence of Datasets
Vladimir Braverman - UCLA
Hosted By: Associate Professor Dimitris Achlioptas
Monday, June 8, 2009 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
Social Code: Practices, Technology, and Play
Game Scholar T.L. Taylor
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
2009 Senior Design Series Projects Competition
Friday, June 12, 2009 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Visual recognition in the three-dimensional world
Silvio Savarese, University of Michigan
Hosted By: Associate Professor Roberto Manduchi
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Modeling human brain dynamics via multiscale electrophysiology
Scott Makeig Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience Institute for Neural Computation
Hosted By: Professor Wentai Liu
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Reliability and Power-Efficiency in Erasure-Coded Storage Systems
Kevin Greenan
Hosted By: Ethan Miller
Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Pushing the limits of energy consumption: opportunities and challenges in subthreshold logic
Professor Massimo Alioto - Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC)
Hosted By: Professor Yusuf Leblebici
Monday, June 29, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Reading the human genome
Sydney Brenner - Salk Institute
Hosted By: CBSE and BME announce a seminar by Sydney Brenner, the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Advances & Defenses: Prediction and Expansion of Biological Pathways From Perturbation Effects
Charles Vaske
Hosted By: Josh Stuart
Monday, July 6, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Predicting Software Bugs and Fixes Using Machine Learning
Shivkumar Shivaji
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: A comparative genomic analysis of simple repeat motifs and short proteins in prokaryotes
Josue Samayoa
Hosted By: Kevin Karplus
Monday, July 13, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: The Grail Framework: Enabling Co-Authorship in Computer Role-Playing Games
Anne Sullivan
Friday, July 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: Springboard: Computer-Supported Level Design for Platformers
Gillian Smith
Friday, July 17, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Advances & Defenses: The intelligent game designer: Game design as a new domain for automated discovery
Adam Smith
Hosted By: Michael Mateas
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Thermal Modeling and Management of 2D and 3D Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip
Prof. David AtienzaEcole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Hosted By: Profs. Jose Renau and Ali Shakouri
Monday, July 27, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
An integrated analysis of molecular aberrations in cancer
Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
Hosted By: Associate Professor Josh Stuart
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Renewable Energy Policy in CA
Fred Keeley
Hosted By: Professor Ali Shakouri
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Engineering Alumni and Faculty Happy Hour
Hosted By: The Development Office
Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Intersection between Psychology, GamUser Experience Researces and Interactive Narratives
Dr. Magy Seif El-Nasr - Assistant Professor Simon Fraser University
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: A Convenient and Informative Electronic Travel Aid: Prospects for Handheld Active Triangulation Based Obstacle Identification in Real Time
David Ilstrup
Hosted By: Roberto Manduchi
Thursday, August 6, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Associative Tracking
Eric Poblenz
Hosted By: Gabriel Elkaim
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Recursion Schemes, Type Inference and Model-Checking Functional Programs
Luke Ong - University of Oxford
Hosted By: Professor Cormac Flanagan
Monday, August 17, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Analysis and Generation of Hard Satisfiable Instances
Ricardo Menchaca-Mendez
Hosted By: Dimitris Achlioptas
Monday, August 17, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Computer Assisted Optimization of High Speed Transimpedance Amplifiers for Low-Cost, Polymer Optical Fiber based Data Links
Jacob Wysocki
Hosted By: Ken Pedrotti
Monday, August 17, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Design, Implementation and Flight Verification of a Versatile and Rapidly Reconfigurable UAV GNC Research Platform
Mariano Lizarraga
Hosted By: Gabriel Elkaim
Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Baskin Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Event
Hosted By: Richard Hughey
Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Single-Molecule Analysis of Functional Complexes of Bacteriophage T7 DNA Polymerase Using a Nanopore
Daniel Garalde
Hosted By: William Dunbar
Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Thermal Issues on modern System-on-chip designs
Dr. Chiueh from USC.
Hosted By: Professor Wentai Liu
Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: System Identification and Parameter Estimation
Safa Gasser
Hosted By: Donald Wiberg
Friday, August 21, 2009 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Advancement to Candidacy: GPSim: A Framework for Modeling Current and Future **Manycore Architectures
Alamelu Sankaranarayanan
Hosted By: Jose Renau
Friday, August 21, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Design & Evaluation of All-Optical Buffer-Constrained Routers at the Internet Backbone
Arvinderpal Wander
Hosted By: Anujan Varma
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Dissertation Defense: Routing and Scheduling In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Meshes
Rolando Menchaca-Mendez
Hosted By: J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Monday, August 31, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Visualization Techniques for Computational Mechanics
Alisa Neeman
Hosted By: Alex Pang
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CITRIS Research Exchange: "Innovation in Search and Artificial Intelligence"
Peter Norvig
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Entropy Regularization and Soft Margin Maximization
Karen Glocer
Hosted By: Manfred Warmuth
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Early Results from the Universe Quest
Carl Pennypacker
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: Nanoscale Electrical and Optical Sensing of Vertabrate and Invertabrate Cultured Neural Networks In Vitro
Adam Seger
Hosted By: Michael Isaacson
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Heterogeneous Traffic
Mingyue Ji
Hosted By: Hamid Sadjadpour
Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Dissertation Defense: High-density wireless neural recording system
Moo Sung Chae
Hosted By: Wentail Liu
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Spamalytics - An Inside View Of Spam Campaigns
Vern Paxson
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Advancement to Canididacy: Eyelid Reanimation System for Facial Nerve Palsy
Kuanfu Chen
Hosted By: Wentail Liu
Friday, September 18, 2009 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Utility Industry Challenges in the 21st Century: Smart Grid
Andrew Tang
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, September 18, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
New Event
Andrew Tang
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, September 18, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
UWB CMOS transmitter and receiver for breast cancer detection
Takamaro Kikkawa
Hosted By: Professor Wentai Liu
Friday, September 18, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Achieving Safer Motherhood with Solar Powered Light and Communication
Laura Stachel
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Algae OMEGA: Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae
Jonathan Trent - UCSC
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
AMS Faculty presentations
David Draper, Qi Gong, Dejan Milutinovic, Abel Rodriguez
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, September 28, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Challenges in m-Banking and Other Value Added Services in India
Professor Rekha Jain
Hosted By: Professor Patrick Mantey
Monday, September 28, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Challenges in m-Banking and Other Value Added Services in India
Professor Rekha Jain
Hosted By: Professor Patrick Mantey
Monday, September 28, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Global Integrated Monitoring for the Environment, Public Health, and Disaster Management
Dr. Kevin Montgomery
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
What the Karplus lab does
Professor Kevin Karplus - BME (UCSC)
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dielind Gerloff
Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM
Looking for the unusual: hunting protein interactions with help of structural and evolutionary thinking... and a bit of common sense
Assistant Professor Dietlind Gerloff
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Dielind Gerloff
Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:45 PM to 1:15 PM
The Case "Against" the Smart Grid
Bruce Nordman - Energy Analysis Department, LBNL
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, October 2, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Harnessing Medical Information Technology to Improve Care and Outcome
Dr. Irving Loh
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, October 2, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Technology and Information Management(TIM) Graduate Student Research Symposium
Various TIM Grad Students
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Yi Zhang
Monday, October 5, 2009 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
AMS Faculty presentations
Marc Mangel, Eric Anderson, Raquel Prado, Bruno Sanso, Hongyun Wang
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, October 5, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
A Computer Scientist Looks at the Energy Problem
Randy Katz & David Culler
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Discovery of jigsaw-like tRNA pieces and unique mobile tRNA introns in deep-branching archaeal order Thermoproteales
Dr. Kosuke Fujishima - Keio University, Japan
Hosted By: Associate Professor Todd Lowe
Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Measurement of Thermophysical Properties by Thermoreflectance Technique
Dr. Shakhawat Hossain Firoz, National Metrology Institute of Japan
Hosted By: Assistant Adjunct Professor Zhixi Bian
Friday, October 9, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Pushing the Frontiers of Mobile Computing.
Dr. Achin Bhowmik - Intel
Hosted By: Professor Claire Gu
Friday, October 9, 2009 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Low Cost Photovoltaic Technology using Metal Sulfides
Cyrus Wadia
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, October 9, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Computational Intelligence for Content Creation
Professor Julian Togelius - ITU Copenhagen
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Monday, October 12, 2009 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Experience Management through Narrative Content Generation
Professor Mark Riedl - Georgia Tech
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Monday, October 12, 2009 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Using Procedural Generation for Human-Computer Interaction
Kate Compton - EA/Maxis
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Monday, October 12, 2009 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM
AMS Faculty presentations
Nic Brummell, Pascale Garaud, Athanasios Kottas, Herbie Lee
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, October 12, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Panel - The Future of Procedural Content Generation
Michael Mateas (moderator), Julian Togelius, Mark Riedl, Kate Compton
Hosted By: Associate Professor Michael Mateas
Monday, October 12, 2009 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Some Advances in Nanotechnology at Berkeley
Alex Zettl
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Solving the Quadratic Assignment Problem in Fourier Space
Risi Kondor - California Institute of Technology
Hosted By: Professor Manfred Warmuth
Friday, October 16, 2009 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Energy Innovations at Southern California Edison
Mark Martinez
Friday, October 16, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Advancement to Candidacy: Cosmic Calibration - Statistical Modeling for Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constants
Tracy Holsclaw
Hosted By: Herbie Lee
Monday, October 19, 2009 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Permissive Dynamic Information-Flow Analysis
Tom Austin
Hosted By: Professor Cormac Flanagan
Monday, October 19, 2009 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Computation of time-periodic solutions of nonlinear PDE
Jon Wilkening - UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, October 19, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
First Annual ISSDM/SRL Research Symposium
Hosted By: ISSDM/SRL
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 9:30 AM to 5:05 PM
First Annual ISSDM/SRL Research Symposium
Hosted By: ISSDM/SRL
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:15 AM to 5:35 PM
Making the Future: What DIY Culture is Telling Us About Tomorrow
David Pescovitz
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Interval-based Abstraction Refinement
Pritam Roy
Hosted By: Luca de Alfaro
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Nanopore Analysis of Nucleic Acids
Professor Mark Akeson (BME - UCSC) & Research Professor David Deamer (BME - UCSC)
Hosted By: The Chemistry Department
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
Research Review Day 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Wind Energy Technology: Innovations and Challenges
Carsten Westergaard
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, October 23, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Stimulus dependence of the functional connectivity between neurons in primary visual cortex
Andrea Benucci
Hosted By: Professor Wentai Liu
Friday, October 23, 2009 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Particle Learning for Sequential Design and Optimization
Robert Gramacy - University of Cambridge, DPMMS
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, October 26, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
ADVANCEMENT TO CANIDIDACY: Magnetohydrodynamics of the Solar Tachocline: Modeling the sharp transition of rotational shear detected in the interior of the Sun.
Luis Antonio Acevedo-Arreguin
Hosted By: Pascale Garaud
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Medical Robotics and the Human-Machine Interface
Jacob Rosen
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
The coming age of physical synthesis
Zhuo Li - IBM
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Matthew Guthaus
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
DISSERTATION DEFENSE: Game Theoretic Models of Competition and Upgrade Investments in Communication Networks
Shuang Wu
Hosted By: John Musacchio
Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Research Results on Solar PV: Experiments at UC Merced
Roland Winston
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, October 30, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Algorithmic Program Synthesis with Partial Programs
Associate Professor Ras Bodik from Berkeley
Hosted By: Professor Cormac Flanagan
Monday, November 2, 2009 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
Forecasting for decision support
Eva Regnier - NPS Monterey
Hosted By: Assistant Professor Pascale Garaud
Monday, November 2, 2009 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Positron Emission Tomography: A New Tool for Biomedical Imaging?
Simon Cherry
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
"Boom and Bust: Thriving Through Major Business Cycles"
Dave Hitz, NetApp Founder and Executive Vice President
Hosted By: Stephen Bourdow, Director Engineering Development
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM
An Overview of Energy Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ashok Gadgil
Hosted By: UCSC CITRIS
Friday, November 6, 2009 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM