Fall 2011 Seminar Series

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The Fall 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series. Live broadcast at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast; Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.

All talks take place in the Banatao Auditorium on the 3rd floor of Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, unless otherwise noted. (MAP)

The CITRIS-LBNL-CIEE i4Energy Center focuses on the development of information technology systems that facilitate significant energy and cost savings. Free and open to the public, the i4Energy Speaker Series is a weekly roundtable of lectures and discussions that highlight these research issues.


September 2, 2011
Photovoltaic Power Efficiency Gain: One Technology that may Make Commercial Sense (Video)
Sudip Mukhopadhyay [Honeywell]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley


September 9, 2011
Entirely New and Better Approaches to Conditioning Buildings (Video)
Ed Arens [Center for the Built Environment]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley


September 16, 2011
Oops: Unintended Consequences of Some Well-intentioned Decisions about the Electric Power Grid (Video)
Alex McEachern [Power Standards Lab]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley


September 23, 2011
The Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accident: What Happened and What Does It Mean? (Video)
Robert Budnitz [LBNL]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley


September 30, 2011
Quantifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities for U.S. Households and Communities (Video)
Chris Jones [UC Berkeley]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

October 7, 2011
Bioenergy Sustainability: Want to Get Involved? (Video)
Elliot Campbell [UC Merced]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

October 14, 2011
Integrated, Energy-Efficient Design in Buildings (Video)
Igor Mezic [UC Santa Barbara]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

October 21, 2011
What We Can Learn from Modeling the California Cap-and-Trade Policies in the Electricity Market?(Video)
Yihsu Chen [UC Merced]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

October 28, 2011
To the Dark Side: Efficiency and Demand Response Through Commercial Building Lighting Controls (Video)
Charlie Huizenga [Adura Technologies]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

November 4, 2011
Smart, Energy Producing and Healthy Homes: Eight European Experiments (Video)
Ellen Kathrine Hansen [VKR Holdings]
Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley  

November 11, 2011 No seminar due to Veterans' Day holiday

November 18, 2011
Reducing Peak Load on Campus: Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response in Sutardja Dai Hall (Video)
Therese Peffer and Domenico Caramagno [CIEE and CITRIS]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley 

November 25, 2011 No seminar due to Thanksgiving holiday

December 2, 2011
Technology Demonstration Success Stories from the PIER Program: Making End-Use Efficiency Happen (Video)
Karl Brown [Deputy Director of CIEE]
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley