Energy Solutions (Video)
Episodes
Economics Always Wins: Climate and Electrification in the 21st Century with Tom Steyer
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Climate investor and philanthropist Tom Steyer, recipient of the 2025 Charles David Keeling Memorial Lecture, talks about the current and future state...
The Challenge of Building Better Batteries
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Batteries have become an essential component of our daily life. They power our smartphones, laptops, tablets, and many of the cars around us. They are...
The Moral Economy of Resource Extraction and the Future of Industrialization
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The "energy transition" is actually a shift from relying on fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to using metals to generate energy. However, extrac...
The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the bur...
How to Get Big Oil to Take Climate Change Seriously
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What role do oil companies have in tackling climate change? In this program, Paasha Mahdavi, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barb...
Can a New Chemical Industry Help the Environment?
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we use raw materials to improve the environment? In this program, Susannah L. Scott, professor of chemistry at UC Santa Barbara, discusses ho...
Microscale Thermal-Fluids Engineering for Energy and Water Applications
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Effective management of thermal-fluids transport has become a critical challenge in many energy, water, and electronic applications due to the increas...
How Modern Slavery Touches Everyone
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern slavery, which encompasses 45 million people around the world, is intricately linked to the economy, politics, violence and war, gender and the...
How Modern Slavery Impacts the Environment with Kevin Bales
05 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are 45 million enslaved people in the world today. The links between slavery, conflict, environmental destruction, economics and consumption beg...
High-Performance Training and Inference on GPUs for NLP Models with Lei Li
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lei Li is an assistant professor in Computer Science Department at University of California Santa Barbara. His research interest lies in natural langu...
AI Cluster Trends with Robert Ober
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Ober is Chief Platform Architect of NVIDIA’s data center products, and works with global Hyperscales to architect AI and Deep Learning clusters,...
Compiler and Runtime Support for Exploring AI-GPU Acceleration with Yufei Ding
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yufei Ding joined the Department of Computer Science (with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering), University of ...
Problems Faced by Data Centers Today and Future Needs with Katharine Schmidtke
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Katharine E. Schmidtke received a B.Sc. Degree in physics and mathematics from Keele University, UK, in 1989 and Ph.D in laser physics and non-linear ...
Building Operations Decarbonization with Dan Nall
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Nall is a professional engineer, a registered architect, an ASHRAE and an AIA Fellow, a LEED Fellow, an ASHRAE Certified Building Energy Modeling ...
Performance by Design with Martin Fischer
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Fischer is the Kumagai Professor of Engineering at Stanford University and directs the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering. He is known ...
Accelerators are Green; Cloud Accelerators are Greener with Cliff Young
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cliff Young is a software engineer in Google Research, where he works on codesign for deep learning accelerators. He is one of the designers of Google...
Energy Efficient Training Fabric with Surendra Anubolu
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Surendra Anubolu is a Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom in the Switch Group. He is currently working on benchmarking and enhancing performance of dis...
Comfort Health and Energy – Finding the New Balance with Mead Rusert
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mead Rusert is President of Automated Logic, a leading provider of innovative building automation and energy management solutions that maximize energy...
AI Use Cases and Deployments Today and Problem Statement for Future with Bharath Muthiah
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bharath Muthiah is a Technical Lead in Meta’s Infrastructure team and leads technical sourcing for large scale AI HW cluster technologies and soluti...
Bringing Low-Power O-Band Coherent Optics to the Data Center with Clint Schow
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UC Santa Barbara's Clint Schow discusses how to bring low-power O-band coherent optics to data centers. Schow received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees fr...
Meta Data Centers Heterogenous Integration Driven by AI/ML and Network Applications with Ravi Agarwal
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ravi Agarwal is a technical sourcing manager at the Facebook Infrastructure group. In this role, he is responsible for driving advanced packaging arch...
Scaling Highly Integrated Optical Interconnects with Manish Mehta
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Manish Mehta is the VP of Marketing and Operations for the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom. Manish leads go-to- market and operational activity f...
High Volume Silicon Photonics for Co-Packaged Optics and Optical I/O with Thomas Liljeberg
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
High Volume Silicon Photonics for Co-Packaged Optics and Optical I/O with Thomas Liljeberg of Intel. Series: "Institute for Energy Efficiency" [Scienc...
Co-Packaged Optics in Future Server Designs with Ram Huggahalli
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ram Huggahalli is a Principal Hardware Engineer in Microsoft's Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure group. His focus areas are hyper-scalar syste...
Optical Interconnects in Data Centers with Rob Stone
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Stone is a member of the infrastructure team at Meta, focusing on next generation optics and networking. Prior to Facebook, Rob was a distinguishe...
High Capacity Energy Efficient Interconnects for Data Centers with John Bowers
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John E. Bowers holds the UC Santa Barbara Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Distingu...
Data Center Energy Savings in this Decade with Chris Cole
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Cole is advising several companies including II-VI Inc. and Quintessent Inc., on advanced optical interfaces. Before, he was VP of Advanced Deve...
Ocean Exploration to Inform Climate Solutions and Biodiversity Conservation
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean is a critical component of climate solutions. Not only does the ocean have the potential to provide food security, but it can provide critic...
Climate Adaptation and Action – Lessons Learned from the State of California
18 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The State of California has been steadfast in battling climate change and has passed several pieces of legislation including the Global Warming Soluti...
Climate Action Regional Security and the Road to the Summit of the Americas
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The United States Southern Command's (USSOUTHCOM) is responsible for providing contingency planning, operations, and security cooperation for Central ...
The State of the Pacific Ocean: Climate Change and the Case for Expanded Hemispheric Cooperation
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spanning nearly 63 million square miles from California to China, the Pacific Ocean is by the far the largest of the world's ocean basins. The Pacific...