Smart Energy Day

The Integrated Systems Center has organized a day of presentations and discussion about energy efficient solutions in today's world. The speakers are leading scientists and researchers in their respective fields. This workshop is sponsored by nano-tera.ch

This meeting is organized in the form of a workshop followed by a panel discussion where the audience will have ample time to ask questions. The workshop is of interest to professors, research and teaching staff and graduate students in  electrical, mechanical and environmental engineering, material science, microtechnologies, as well as computer science and communication systems.

Smart Energy workshop will take place in the EPFL Polydôme. Please click here to download the campus map with the Polydôme marked. The day's program is given below. Please follow the links given through presentation titles for the abstracts.Download Smart Energy Day Flyer.

The workshop is open to everyone, but for planning reasons please send an e-mail to anil.leblebici@epfl.ch to confirm your participation.

 

Program:
10:00-10:40   Energy Efficient Enterprise Computing and Green Data Centers

Massoud Pedram
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

10:40-11:20 Energy and Transportation: A time when all options are explored

Jan-Anders Månson, Yves Leterrier
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

11:20-12:00 Integration of renewable energy sources in the power electric network of the future

Carlo Alberto Nucci, Mario Paolone
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-14:30 How to bring legacy data center infrastructure to cope with today's power, cooling and space requirements

Marcel Ledergerber
Credit Suisse, Switzerland

14:30-15:00 Green Considerations for System-Level Computing Architectures Design

David Atienza
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

15:00-15:30 Responsive, Energy-Proportional Networks

Dejan Kostic
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

15:30-16:00 Building a Smarter Energy Future

Bruno Michel, Patrick Ruch
IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

16:00-17:00 PANEL DISCUSSION
17:00-18:00 Apero