|  The first full week of May will be particularly busy, with a wide variety of seminars and conferences for Calit2 participants, and the rest of May looks equally busy. Note that this week the public will get an opportunity to sit in on the final forum and conference declaration, at the end of an invitation-only conference on water issues and climate change facing California and the Himalayas. It's organized by UC San Diego and the University of Cambridge. Trinity College Cambridge Fellow, Lord Julian Hunt (pictured) and Calit2 Director Larry Smarr will be on the closing panel discussion on Wednesday, and Calit2 will be videotaping the two-hour session for later webcasting. Here's a full rundown of events coming up at UC San Diego or UC Irvine this week:
Date: May 4, 2009 UCSD
Time: 11:45am-12:45pm
Spectral Clustering of Surfaces
Speaker: Ery Arias-Castro, UCSD Department of Mathematics
This seminar is organized by Calit2's Information Theory and Applications Center.
Location: Calit2 Room 4004, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 4, 2009 UCSD
Time: 3pm
Underground and Independent Filmmaking in China: Legacies of the May 4th Movement of 1919
Speaker: Paul G. Pickowicz, Professor of History, UC San Diego
This talk is the Inaugural Lecture of the UCSD Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History. Caution: The talk will include film clips of a disturbing or violent nature.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 5, 2009 UCI
Time: 11am
Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) Technology
Speaker: Heiner Jaksch, Staff Scientist, Carl Zeiss GmbH
Location: Room 3008, Calit2 Building, UC Irvine
Date: May 5, 2009 UCSD
Time: 11am
An Avalanche of Help: Analyzing Cooperative Broadcast Themes in the Limit
Speaker: Anna Scaglione, Professor, UC Davis
This event is organized by Calit2 affiliate Center for Wireless Communications.
Location: Room 2512, EBU-1, UC San Diego
Date: May 5, 2009 UCSD
Time: 4pm
Science & Technology: Collaboration Between North Korea and South Korea
Speaker: Chan-Mo Park, Special Advisor to Republic of Korea President for Science and Technology
This event is organized by the UCSD Center for Pacific Economies and IR/PS.
Location: Room 3201, Robinson Building Complex, IR/PS, UC San Diego
Date: May 6, 2009 UCSD
Time: 3-5pm
UCSD-Cambridge Workshop Closing Session and Public Forum
Speakers: Tony Haymet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Larry Smarr, Calit2; Lord Julian Hunt, University of Cambridge; Paul Linden, Director, UCSD Sustainability Solutions Institute; Robert Wilkinson, UC Santa Barbara; et al.
At the conclusion of a three-day, invitation-only international workshop on water issues facing California and the Himalayas as a result of climate change, the public is invited to attend the closing session and reading of a conference declaration.
Location: Atkinson Pavilion, Faculty Club, UC San Diego
Date: May 6, 2009 UCSD
Time: 5pm-6:30pm
Global Responsibility and Innovation Network Launch
This event and network is organized by graduate students interested in working on projects involving globally responsible innovation to facilitate sustainable global development.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 8, 2009 UCSD
Time: Noon-1pm
Search for Genghis Khan: Using Modern Tools to Hunt for an Ancient Past
Speaker: Albert Yu-Min Lin, Calit2/CISA3, UC San Diego
This talk is organized by Calit2 as part of UCSD's Asian Heritage Month Celebrations.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 8, 2009 UCSD
Time: 1pm
How Random-Set Theory Can Help Wireless Communications
Speaker: Ezio Biglieri, Ajunct Professor, UCLA
This talk is organized by the Jacobs School's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and hosted by Calit2 participant Larry Milstein.
Location: Room 2512, EBU-1, UC San Diego
Date: May 11, 2009 UCSD
Time: Noon-1pm
Information Theoretic Generation of Secret Keys
Speaker: Amin Gohari, UC Berkeley
This talk is organized by Calit2's Information Theory and Applications Center.
Location: Calit2 Room 4004, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 12, 2009 UCSD
Time: 4:30pm (4pm reception)
Greenovation Forum: The Water We Eat
Speakers: Ayelet Gneezy, UCSD Rady School of Management; Barry Logan, La Milpa Organica Farm
This forum is organized by the Atkinson Hall-based Sustainability Solutions Institute of UC San Diego, and is free and open to the public. Register at http://ssi.ucsd.edu/greenovation.
Location: Atkinson Pavilion, UC San Diego Faculty Club
Date: May 13-14, 2009 UCSD
Time: All day
4th Rocks Clusters All-Hands Meeting (Rocks-A-Palooza)
Chair: Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC and Calit2
This is the fourth in a series of annual workshops for users and developers of the Rocks Cluster Distribution.
Event website: http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/?page_id=11 (Registration closes May 1)
Location: Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 13, 2009 UCSD
Time: 11am-Noon
Amazing Man-Made Nanomachines
Speaker: Jennifer Cha, NanoEngineering, UCSD Jacobs School
This is the latest in a NanoEngineering Lecture Series for general audiences.
Location: Science & Engineering Events Room, UC San Diego Geisel Library
Date: May 14, 2009 UCI
Time: 6pm (followed by networking buffet and exhibits)
Clean Energy Challenge
Speakers: UCI's Jack Brouwer, Joseph DiMento, Reg Penner; Roth Capital Partners' Brian Kremer; Verdezyne Inc. CEO Bill Radany
Location: Auditorium, Calit2 Building, UC Irvine
Date: May 14-15, 2009 UCSD
Time: All day
Data Challenges in the Humanities
This 2-day workshop organized by the San Diego Supercomputer Center aims to promote ongoing collaboration between humanities scholars and high-performance computing centers.
Location: Auditorium, SDSC, UC San Diego
Date: May 15, 2009 UCSD
Time: 11am-12:30pm
Can MEMS Revolutionize the Semiconductor Industry? Sensor Integration, Energy Scavenging and Tunable Radio
Speaker: Farrokh Ayazi, Georgia Tech
This seminar is organized by Calit2's Information Theory and Application Center.
Location: Room 2512, EBU-1
Date: May 15, 2009 UCSD
Time: 2pm
Information-Based Approaches to Electroencephalographic Correlates of Human Spatial Navigation in VE
Speaker: Markus Plank, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and Visiting Researcher, UC San Diego
This seminar is organized by Calit2 project scientist Jurgen Schulze.
Location: Calit2 Room 4004, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 18, 2009 UCSD
Time: 2pm
Engineering Painting Image Analysis: Automated Thread Counting
Speaker: C. Richard Johnson, Jr., Cornell University
This talk is organized by Calit2's Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology.
Location: Calit2 Room 4004, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: May 19, 2009 UCSD
Time: 4pm-5pm
Shedding Light on Environmental Quality Assessment
Speaker: Dimitri Deheyn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Location: Room 584, 5th floor, EBU-2, UC San Diego
Date: May 22, 2009 UCSD
Time: 11am-Noon
On Optimal Fix-Free Codes
Speaker: Serap Savari, Texas A&M University
This colloquium is jointly hosted by the Jacobs School of Engineering's ECE department and Calit2's Information Theory and Applications Center.
Location: Room 2512, Booker Conference Room, EBU-1, UC San Diego
Date: May 27, 2009 UCSD
Time: 1pm-2:30pm
Empirical Game Analysis and the Behavior of Software Agents
Speaker: Michael Wellman, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
This is part of Calit2's 2008-2009 Behavioral, Social and Computer Sciences Seminar Series.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall
Live Webcast: http://calit2.net/webcast [Windows Media player and broadband connection required]
Date: May 28, 2009 UCSD
Time: 4:30pm-7pm
Gordon Engineering Leadership Center Inaugural Forum
Keynote speaker: Robert Akins, CEO, Cymer, Inc.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Date: June 5, 2009 UCSD
Time: 4pm
CSE125 Videogame Design Final Project Demonstrations
Speakers: Geoff Voelker, CSE, UC San Diego (instructor) and student teams
This annual event hosted by Calit2 will showcase three final team presentations -- in the form of 3D, networked real-time and multiplayer computer games -- from CSE125, a spring course on software system design and implementation. This year the course is TA'd by Jason Kimball, from Calit2's HIPerSpace lab.
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Note: On the morning of Wednesday, May 20, expect a little more noise than usual: That's when the Engineering Courtyard in front of Atkinson Hall will become the site for ThinkGREEN!, a renewable energy and sustainability-themed outreach event that will bring roughly 250 high school students to the UC San Diego campus to participate in design competitions and tours of research laboratories. The event will run from 8am until noon. It's organized by the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, with support from local "green" businesses.
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