 Welcome to the Spring 2014 Conference of Stanford's Energy and Environment Affiliates Program. This conference is on big data for energy and the environment. I'm Steve Eglash, the Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Program. Big data is a big topic, and it's affecting a diverse group of industries and technologies and applications. We're going to focus today on several of those related to energy and the environment. We'll begin with some discussion of general data science techniques and some of Stanford's educational initiatives in that area. We'll talk about sensors, the proliferation of sensors in the Internet of Things. We'll talk about applications in oil and gas exploration and production. We'll talk about applications in environment and climate change. And we'll talk about the use of social networks, the electric grid, and energy efficiency. More about that from Jeff Koseff in a moment. The Energy and Environment Affiliates Program at Stanford exists to help people like you and companies like yours access the research and the faculty and the students at Stanford. Events like today's conference provide you with a really excellent and really efficient way of seeing a significant slice of that research all at one place, all in one day. And I urge you to take advantage of it. We try to make today's event as interactive as we possibly can. Every one of the presentations today will either be followed by a few minutes of discussion and Q&A, or in the case of the afternoon's sessions, we'll bring the speakers back up for a panel discussion. So in every case, you'll have an opportunity to make comments from your own perspectives, your own companies and your own industries, or to ask probing questions. In addition, several of our PhD students and postdocs will describe their thesis work. We'll have short presentations later this morning. And then lunch today will include a chance to view posters describing their work. And we encourage you to take advantage of that to talk to the students, get to know them, and get to know their interesting work.