webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events

HIV, Families & Permanency Planning: Addressing New Realities

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0800

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Progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS has created new possibilities for families and their children.

Please join us for this FREE webinar featuring a panel of experts - attorneys, social workers, and PWHAs - who have current information, experiences and insights to share about future care and custody planning for children whose parents have HIV/AIDS.

Speakers for this event include:
* Jeanne Pietrzak, Director of the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
* Linda S. Coon, Director of the Families' and Children's AIDS Network
* Wendy Courts, Peer Counselor with the Families' and Children's AIDS Network
* Adam J. Halper, Director of Legal Services at The Family Center
* Danielle Jatlow, Social Worker at The Family Center
* Bryn Poulton, Social Worker at Family Options

For more information and to register to participate online or onsite in Chicago / NYC visit: http://aia.berkeley.edu/training/annual_conference.php

21st Annual Benjamin Ide Wheeler Society Lecture and Tea

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ananya Roy) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Professor Ananya Roy
"Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes in the New Millennium"

The Transformation of Chile

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Michelle Bachelet - President of Chile) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800

President Michelle Bachelet will discuss the current challenges Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement means for her country.

Moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken

Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

Proposition 13 at 30: The Political, Economic and Fiscal Impacts

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Panel I: The Political Dimensions

Keynote speaker

Panel II: The Economic Impacts

Panel III: The Public Finance Arena

This conference on the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of California's Proposition 13 examines the political, economic, and fiscal legacy of this revolutionary amendment to the state constitution. Proposition 13 imposed a 1% cap on the local property tax rate for Californians and launched a national tax revolt movement. The one-day conference consists of three panels, with a mix of academic, policy experts, and journalists, that assesses the varied fiscal, economic, social, and political ramifications of this watershed tax movement.

More information and materials from many of the day's presentations are available at http://igs.berkeley.edu/events/prop13.html

Sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies, the UC San Diego Department of Sociology, the James Irvine Foundation, and the Stanford University Press

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - General Session

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

General Session

Welcome - Shankar Sastry
Opening Remarks - Joseph Hellerstein
A Tribute, Not a Memorial: Understanding Ambiguous Loss - Pauline Boss
The Amateur Search - Michael Olson
Jim Gray at Berkeley - Michael Harrison
Knowledge and Wisdom - Pat Helland
Why Did Jim Gray Win the Turing Award? - Michael Stonebraker
Jim Gray Chair - Stuart Russell
500 Special Relationships: Jim as a Mentor to Faculty and Students - Ed Lazowska
Jim Gray: His Contributions to Industry - David Vaskevitch
A "Gap Bridger" - Richard Rashid
Thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard - Paula Hawthorn

General Session Program

Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007.

Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982, and also received IEEE Charles Babbage Award.

Link to Technical Session 1 webcast.

Link to Technical Session 2 webcast.

Link to Technical Session 3 webcast.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 1

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Technical Session 1
  Opening - Michael Stonebraker
  Jim Gray at IBM - Bruce G. Lindsay
  Jim Gray's Tandem Contributions - Wendy Bartlett, Jerry Held and John Nauman

Technical Session Program

Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007.

Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982, and also received IEEE Charles Babbage Award.

Link to Technical Session 2 webcast.

Link to Technical Session 3 webcast.

Link to General Session webcast.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 2

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Technical Session 2
  Not Just Correct, but Correct and Fast - David J. DeWitt and Charles Levine
  Scalability and Immortality - C. Gordon Bell
  Is There Life Outside Transactions? Writing the Transaction Processing Book - Andreas Reuter
  TerraServer and the Russia Adventure - Tom Barclay

Technical Session Program

Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007.

Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982, and also received IEEE Charles Babbage Award.

Link to Technical Session 1 webcast.

Link to Technical Session 3 webcast.

Link to General Session webcast.

Tribute to Honor Jim Gray - Technical Session 3

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Technical Session 3
  The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Beyond - Alexander G. Szalay
  Building the World Wide Telescope - Curtis Wong
  Search Survey for S/V Tenacious - Ed Saade
  Exploring Ocean Data - James G. Bellingham and Michael Godin
  Closing - Donna Carnes

Technical Session Program

Three organizations dedicated to the advancement of computing science, IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery, and EECS, UC Berkeley will join the family and colleagues of Jim Gray in hosting a tribute to the legendary computer science pioneer, missing at sea since Jan. 28, 2007.

Gray is known for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database expert and Microsoft engineer. Gray's work helped make possible such technologies as the cash machine, ecommerce, online ticketing, and deep databases like Google. In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in computer science. He was appointed an IEEE Fellow in 1982, and also received IEEE Charles Babbage Award.

Link to Technical Session 1 webcast.

Link to Technical Session 2 webcast.

Link to General Session webcast.

GSPP 2008 Commencement Ceremony

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ann Veneman) — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Commencement Speaker: Ann Veneman, Executive Director of the United Nation's Childrens Fund (UNICEF)

A native of Modesto, California, Ann received her Bachelor's degree from UC Davis and her Master of Public Policy degree from GSPP. She also holds a juris doctorate degree from UC Hastings College of Law.

Prior to joining UNICEF, she was US Secretary of Agriculture from 2001-2005, the only GSPP graduate to date to hold a Cabinet position.

From 1995 to 1999 she was Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

IAS 2008 Commencement

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
International and Area Studies 2008 Commencement Ceremony

2008 Commencement Convocation

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Keynote speaker: Craig Newmark, Customer Service Representative and Founder, craigslist

Addressing Global Hunger & Poverty through Agricultural Development

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

An expert panel and public forum that will address the critical issues of agricultural development in Africa and South Asia will discuss the challenges and opportunities to improve the lives of smallholder farmers and their families. Presented by The College of Natural Resources and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Eyes on Activism: Celebrating Social Change in Israel Through the Visual Arts

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Nili Yosha) — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Join Kesher Enoshi: Progressives for Activism in Israel for a chance to engage with activism in the country through a photography and art exhibition representing activists working for social change. Many different movements will be represented, including LGTBQ rights activism in Jerusalem, environmental justice in Tel Aviv and many more. The gallery will also include original art inspired by social change movements in Israel and produced by the student activists of Kesher Enoshi.

This gallery portion will be followed by a presentation by Israeli-American photographer, artist and activist Nili Yosha, who will present her photo-project called "My Tel Aviv," an activist's reflection on the human side of Tel Aviv unseen by the eye of the tourist.

Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the New Israel Fund, Hillel, YJ Impact Fellowship Program, and the Free Speech Movement Cafe Educational Program Series.

PDF Accessibility and Useability Issues

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Sean Keegan) — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Portable Document Format (PDF) may be one of the most popular formats for posting documents to the Web, but it can also present a variety of barriers to access for people using screen-reading technologies. In this presentation, Sean Keegan, a premier expert on document and web accessibility, will address usability and accessibility issues of the PDF, strategies for the creation of accessible electronic documents, and the appropriate use of software applications to ensure accessibility of web documents.

Sean Keegan is the Web Accessibility Instructor at the High Tech Center Training Unit for the California Community Colleges. The High Tech Center Training Unit provides training and technical support to higher-education faculty and staff on the use of assistive computer technology for students' with disabilities. As part of this continuing mission to improve access for students with disabilities, Sean conducts workshops and trainings to faculty and staff in the area of accessible web design, web usability, captioning of web-based multimedia, and the use of assistive computer technology.

Beijing Olympics Panel

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Special Spring Workshop: The Beijing Olympics

Speakers:
Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Quebec at Montreal
"Building the Dream: The Making of Beijing's Olympic Image"

You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley
"From Property Rights to Residents' Rights: Urban Construction and Grassroots Resistance in Beijing"

Youjeong Oh, Graduate Student, Geography, UC Berkeley
"State- and Citizen-driven Nationalisms in Mega Sport Events: Comparison of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and the 2002 World Cup Game between South Korea and Japan"
Sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and the Institute of East Asian Studies.

Lunch Poems - Student Reading

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

One of the year's most lively events, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets, Cook, Rosenberg, and Yang, as well as students nominated by Berkeley's creative writing faculty, Lunch Poems volunteers, and representatives from student publications.

Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Additional information is available at lunchpoems.berkeley.edu.

The Holloway Series in Poetry - Lytle Shaw

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Lytle Shaw) — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Lytle Shaw's books of poetry include Low Level Bureaucratic Structures: A Novel (Shark, 1998), Cable Factory 20 (Atelos, 1999), and The Lobe (Roof, 2002). He has also published a critical book, Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (University of Iowa Press, 2006) and edited 19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology (Drawing Center/Roof, 2007). He is a regular contributor to Cabinet Magazine and has recently written art catalog essays on Gerard Byrne (for Koenig Books), on Robert Smithson (for Dia Center), and on The Royal Art Lodge (for The Drawing Center). Since 2004 Shaw has co-edited the Chadwick Family Papers with Jimbo Blachly; installations and performances related to this material have occurred at PS1/MoMA, Wave Hill, PS122, Bartram?s Garden/ICA Philadelphia, and the Queens Museum. Periscope Books will publish, The Chadwicks: Episodes and Events, in fall of 2008 to coincide with an exhibition in New York at Winckleman Gallery, where Shaw and Blachly are represented. Shaw is also a professor of American literature at New York University.

Special Forum on Post-1998 Indonesia, with guest speakers Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Hilmar Farid

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Nursyahbani Katjasungkana and Hilmar Farid) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

This special forum was held in conjunction with the UC Berkeley-UCLA Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies, with the theme "Ten Years After: Reformasi and New Social Movements in Indonesia, 1998-2008". The conference was held on the Berkeley campus from April 25-26,2008.
Nursyahbani Katjasungkana is a member of the Indonesian parliament, representing the National Awakening Party (Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa), the party of former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid. She is also a prominent human rights lawyer and the founder of the NGO, Women Association for Justice (Lembaga Bantuan Hukum-Asosiasi Perempuan Indonesia untuk Keadilan), first established in 1995 to promote women's rights in Indonesia.
Hilmar Farid is an innovative young historian and human rights activist, currently affiliated with the Indonesian Institute for Social History and the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM). He is a founding member of the Network for Cultural Work (Jaringan Kerja Budaya), a collective of artists, researchers and cultural workers.

The Holloway Series in Poetry - Ariana Reines

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ariana Reines) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Fierce and wild poetry from the winner of Fence Book's Alberta Prize.

Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching Lecture: Ananya Roy's "Ideal Last Lecture"

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Ananya Roy) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
The Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching is presented by the students of UC Berkeley to honor those professors who teach with energy ? inspiring, demonstrating passion, and showing care in the classroom. It is the only teaching award at UC Berkeley conferred by the students. The award is intended to recognize those teachers who consistently teach each lecture as if it were their last.

Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an Online Computer Game

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (David Baker) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) and Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley present:

David Baker: "Novel Enzymes, Rapid Structure Determination, and an Online Computer Game"

Professor David Baker, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Washington

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Steven Beckwith) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy

"The Dawn of Creation: The First 2 Billion Years"

Steven Beckwith, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, University of California, Office of the President
The beauty of the universe, the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and most of the stars, got its start in the first billion years after the beginning of time, the Big Bang. Every deep picture of the sky reveals thousands of these galaxies, each made up of billions of stars like the Sun. The intricate spiral structures of the Milky Way as well as the very smooth distributions of the larger elliptical galaxies took shape slowly, building up from many pieces in the detritus of the initial explosion governed by the dark matter that we can sense but still not see. Modern technical wonders like the Hubble Space Telescope have made it possible to look back to a time when the universe looked very different than it does today, when the first galaxies were created and the universe developed structure seen as patterns in the galaxies apparent today. This years Sackler Lecture will look back to the first 2 billion years.

2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact. While acknowledging the fact that the Berkeley faculty comprises many outstanding teachers, the Committee on Teaching is extremely selective in determining the recipients of this award: only 227 faculty have received the award since its inception in 1959.
The 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award recipients:

Nezar AlSayyad
Professor, Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design
Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Dean, College of Environmental Design

Karl Ashoka Britto
Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Stefano DellaVigna
Assistant Professor, Economics

Kaja Silverman
Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies

View the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients Profile video

2008 Distinguished Teachers Video

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Profiles of the 2008 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award:

Nezar AlSayyad
Professor, Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design
Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Associate Dean, College of Environmental Design

Karl Ashoka Britto
Associate Professor, French and Comparative Literature

Stefano DellaVigna
Assistant Professor, Economics

Kaja Silverman
Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film Studies

View the 2008 Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony

On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of Culture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Homi Bhabha) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Homi Bhabha
Department of English, Harvard University

Story Hour in the Library - Melanie Abrams

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Melanie Abrams) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Melanie Abrams' novel, Playing, is forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic in April 2008, and has already been acquired for translation in three different languages. Howard Norman says, "In her arresting debut novel Melanie Abrams is disturbingly expert at exhibiting how erotic obsession makes a courtship a dangerous game indeed. Unpredictable and unforgettable. A stunning writer." Melanie received her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She currently teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley.

For more information see the Story Hour website

Support for this series is provided by the University Library and the Department of English.

Choosing the President: Healthcare

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (various) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Helen Halpin, Professor of Health Policy; Director, Center for Health and Public Policy Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Mark A. Peterson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, UCLA

Moderator: Stephen M. Shortell, Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley

Co-sponsored with the School of Public Health

More information about the Choosing the President series.

Choosing the President in 2008: The Evolving Process and its Effects

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Topics of panels at this conference will include the campaign finance system, the impact of early primaries in creating a "front-loaded" nominating process, a retrospective on the outcome of the primaries, and an evaluation of presidential elections generally, including the need for potential reforms.
April 10, 2008

Annual Review of the Presidency

April 11, 2008

Developments in Campaign Finance

Keynote Lecture: "The Way We Choose Presidential Nominees: Problems and Prospects"

Parties, Primaries, and Process

The 2008 Nominations -- The Never-Ending Story

April 12, 2008

Assessing the Post-Reform System

For more information, visit the IGS: Choosing the President in 2008 website.

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

California's natural resources, economy, demographics and political system have made it a unique laboratory for environmental policy over the past half century. As a result, California has often led both the nation and the world in recognizing environmental challenges, and in fashioning creative and effective solutions to them.

This conference will bring together leading environmental policymakers, scholars and legal practitioners to address California's current and future role at the forefront of environmental law and policy development. In the process, speakers will map for conference attendees California?s environmental policy agenda for the coming decades. That agenda, in turn, has broad ramifications, inasmuch as California's environmental dilemmas are a microcosm of those faced nationally and globally. The environmental solutions California devises to those problems will doubtless prove influential far beyond our borders.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Welcome & Keynote

The Potential and Limitations of Litigation in Furthering Climate Change Policy

Lunch Keynote - Jared Huffman

Ocean Resources: New Opportunities, New Threats

The Green Chemistry Revolution: A new Paradigm for Reducing and Managing Hazardous Wastes

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - From California to the World
Friday, April 11, 2008

Opening Speaker - Dr. Steven Chu

California's Regulatory Response to Climate Change - Implementing AB 32

Integrating Land Use and Transportation Policy in California

California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy - Closing Remarks

A tectonic time bomb in our backyard: Earthquake potential of the Hayward fault

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Dr. Roland Burgmann) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

2008 Lawson Lecture
Speaker: Roland Burgmann, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
The Lawson Lecture is a public lecture sponsored by the Seismological Laboratory, held in April. The lecture series was inaugurated in 2003 as part of the Seismological Laboratory's plans for commemorating the 1906 earthquake. The lecture series is meant to address a wide variety of earthquake issues of interest to the Berkeley community.

The lecture series is named for Professor Andrew Lawson, who was appointed to the Department of Geology at UC Berkeley in 1890. In 1906, as Chairman of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, he organized an extensive field program, to which many geologists contributed their services, and prepared the one of the most complete and informative reports ever published on a great earthquake.

California Colloquium on Water - Heather Cooley

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Heather Cooley) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Desalination, With a Grain of Salt: A California Perspective

Heather Cooley: Senior Researcher, Pacific Institute.

Summary: Long considered the Holy Grail of water supply, desalination offers the potential of an unlimited source of fresh water purified from the vast oceans of salt water that surround us. The public, politicians, and water managers continue to hope that cost-effective and environmentally safe ocean desalination will come to the rescue of water-short regions.

Interest in desalination has been especially high in California, where rapidly growing populations, inadequate regulation of the water supply/land-use nexus, and ecosystem degradation from existing water supply sources have forced a rethinking of water policies and management. In the past five years, public and private entities have put forward more than 20 proposals for large desalination facilities along the California coast. Project proponents point to statewide water-supply constraints, the reliability advantages of ""drought-proof"" supply, the water quality improvements offered by desalinated water, and the benefits of local control. Along with the proposals, however, has come a growing public debate about high economic and energy costs, environmental and social impacts, and consequences for coastal development policies. This presentation discusses the advantages and disadvantages of seawater desalination within the context of California.
More information about this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

Alternative Energy and the Americas

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Stanford R. Ovshinsky) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Stanford R. Ovshinsky has been called "the modern world's most important energy visionary." His career has combined path-breaking scientific work, the creation of new industries and a deep commitment to "make a better world." His work on energy and the environment has particular significance for the Americas.

Ovshinsky developed a new class of disordered or amorphous materials in an area of physics now called "Ovonics." He translated these scientific advances into non-polluting approaches to producing and storing energy from thin film solar technology that is mass produced to hydrogen fuel cells and storage devices. The nickel metal hydride batteries he developed currently power most hybrid cars.

Stan Ovshinsky holds about 350 U.S. patents and has authored more than 275 scientific papers in fields as diverse as neurophysiology and amorphous semiconductors. He has won innumerable honors including the 2005 Innovation Award for Energy and the Environment from the Economist magazine.

He and his late wife, Iris, were named Heroes of Chemistry 2000 by the American Chemical Society for "advances in electrochemical, energy storage and energy generation, including the development of Ovonic nickel metal hydride (NIMH) rechargeable batteries, regenerative fuel cells, solid hydrogen storage system and amorphous silicon photovoltaics" and for having "made significant and lasting contributions to global human welfare."

Stan Ovshinsky is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The 2008 Venture Lab Clean Technology Innovation Prize

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The 2008 Venture Lab Clean Technology Innovation Prize seeks to recognize and bring together UC Berkeley engineers and scientists who are working on applied research and technology with commercial potential in the field of clean technology.

Prizes will be awarded to teams that best demonstrate an innovative solution to one of today's pressing clean technology problems.

Wildavsky Forum: Discussion on Professor Kruglanski's Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy Discussion: A panel discussion on Professor Kruglanski's lecture on "Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Moderator: Jack Glaser, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Panelist: James N. Breckenridge, PhD, Associate Director, Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Policy, Education, and Research on Terrorism (CIPERT), Professor and Co-Director, PGSP-Stanford Consortium

Speakers:
Arie W. Kruglanski, Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
Michael Nacht, Aaron Wildavsky Dean & Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy

Lunch Poems - Jessica Fisher

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Jessica Fisher) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft was the winner of the prestigious 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. Judge Louise Gl�ck writes, "what gives Jessica Fisher's work its sense of form, of repose, is her perfection of ear. That repose, with its strange mobility, its accommodation of surprise, is Fisher's particular genius." She is a doctoral candidate in English at U.C. Berkeley and is coeditor, with Robert Hass, of The Addison Street Anthology, which chronicles Berkeley's rich poetic history.

Support for this series is provided by Mrs. William Main, the Library, The Morrison Library Fund, the dean's office of the College of Letters and Sciences, and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. These events are also partially supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Additional information is available at lunchpoems.berkeley.edu.

Wildavsky Forum: Arie W. Kruglanski

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Arie W. Krunglanski) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy

"Explaining the Inexplicable: Suicide Bombers' Motivation as the Quest for Personal Significance"

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Award (Career Award), the Senior Humboldt Award, the Donald Campbell Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and social Psychology (SPSP), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), The Award for Scholarship and Creativity from the Regents of the University of Maryland, and the Revesz Award from the University of Amsterdam.

Professor Kruglanski was also Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, and is Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist.

He has recently served as member of the National Academy of Science panels on counterterrorism, and educational paradigms in homeland security, and is serving on the NAS Board for Cognitive, Social and Sensory Processes. Kruglanski also serves as a co- PI at START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), at the University of Maryland.

Professor Kruglanski's lecture will examine recent analyses of the motivations for suicidal terrorism. This lecture will suggest that heterogeneous factors identified as personal causes of suicidal terrorism (e.g. trauma, humiliation, social exclusion), the various ideological reasons assumed to justify it (e.g. liberation from foreign occupation, defense of one?s nation or religion), and the social pressures brought upon candidates for suicidal terrorism may be profitably subsumed within an integrative framework that explains diverse instances of suicidal terrorism as attempts at significance restoration, significance gain, and prevention of significance loss.

Understanding California's School Funding Crisis: Why it's happening, what it means, and what ...

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

An on-line briefing session for California media with an expert panel on school financing.

State legislative analyst Elizabeth Hill will present her alternative budget proposal aimed at preserving billions of dollars in funding for the state's schools.

Goodwin Liu, a UC Berkeley Law Professor and co-author of Getting Beyond the Facts: Reforming California School Finance, will propose a reform plan developed by the Getting Beyond the Facts Committee to streamline public school financing and make it more equitable and transparent.

Rick Pratt, the Associate Executive Director of the California School Boards Association (CSBA), will offer an analysis of the impact of the proposed cuts on students, teachers, administrators, and school curricula and facilities, culled from CSBA's members in nearly 1,000 California school districts and county offices of education.

Co-sponsored by the California Media Collaborative, the Commonwealth Club of California, and the Education Writers Association.

Choosing the President: Immigration

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Choosing the President: Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace
Immigration
Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis, Chair of UC Comparative Immigration and Integration Program
Frank Bean, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, UC Irvine
Peter D. Salins, Professor of Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook
Moderator: Jack Citrin, Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley

Sponsored by The Institute of Governmental Studies, The Institute of International Studies, Boalt Hall School of Law, and The Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, and California Magazine

The Changing Realities of Humanitarian Assistance: Commentary from 22 Years in the Field

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Nancy Aossey) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Speaker: Nancy Aossey, International Medical Corps

International Medical Corps (IMC) has been on the front lines of most major humanitarian emergencies of the last two decades, including the famine in Somalia, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, the Rwandan genocide, and atrocities against children in northern Uganda. More recently, International Medical Corps was a first responder after the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, and responded domestically following Hurricane Katrina. Today, in challenging environments such as Darfur and Chad, International Medical Corps saves lives, provides critical health care and trains local health workers, enabling communities to become self-reliant.

International Medical Corps' President and CEO, Nancy A. Aossey, will address the ever-shifting challenges of delivering relief in some of the most dangerous places in the world, including issues of security, lack of necessary resources and the need for innovative solutions to decades-old problems. These solutions likely will be achieved through the research and innovative thinking provided by graduates of our schools of public health, including Berkeley, who are actively engaged in addressing the realities of today?s world and working toward overcoming the obstacles to health and development in the future.

For more information, please go to the website for the School of Public Health.

A Conversation with Don Francis

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Don Francis) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Featured Speaker: Donald P. Francis, M.D., D.Sc., Chairman and Executive Director, Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases

Moderator: Warren Winkelstein Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Donald P. Francis, M.D., D.Sc., an infectious disease trained pediatrician and epidemiologist, has more than 30 years experience in epidemic control and vaccines. Francis spent 21 years working for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) focusing on vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles, cholera, smallpox, and hepatitis B. He directed the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Program in Sudan and U.P. State in Northern India and was also a member of the WHO team investigating the world's first outbreak of Ebola virus. Francis has worked on HIV/AIDS since its emergence in 1981, initially directing the IDS laboratory at the CDC and working closely with the Institut Pasteur to identify the causative virus. He is currently chairman and executive director of Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, which he cofounded.

STEP Q&A Session for Writing Contest

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0800
The STEP group's vision is to create better technology policy through collaborations between scientists, technologists and policy-makers. To do this, we are building a forum to foster collaborations and build interdisciplinary skills at the intersection of policy and technology.

The Holloway Series in Poetry - Linh Dinh

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Linh Dinh) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Poetry that "raids and reinvents the language with an ardor bordering on delirium" from Linh Dinh.

Story Hour in the Library - Daniel Mason

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Daniel Mason) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Daniel Mason lives in California, where he received a medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in 2002 and translated into 28 languages, was adapted as an opera and a play, and is currently in production as a film. Reviews across the country have lauded its sensuous lyricism, and its intelligent exploration of topics as wide-ranging as history, medicine, nature, and politics. In 2005, he was a Townsend Fellow at UC Berkeley. He has had short stories on prize-fighting and art and mental illness published in Harper's Magazine. His second novel, A Far Country, was published in 2007.

For more information see the Story Hour website

Support for this series is provided by the University Library and the Department of English.

Spooky Actions At A Distance?: Oppenheimer Lecture

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (N. David Mermin) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Speaker: N. David Mermin, Cornell

Einstein's real complaint about the quantum theory was not that it required God to play dice, but that it failed to "represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance." I shall use the rhetorical device of a computer-simulated lecture demonstration (a cartoon version of recent experiments in Vienna) to explain both the appeal of Einstein's criticism and the remarkable act that the "reality" he insisted upon is nevertheless unattainable. I will assume no background in quantum physics (or any other physics) but late in the lecture, in convincing you of the hopelessness of Einstein's vision, I will ask you to engage in a kind of reasoning not unlike a (very easy) Sudoku puzzle.

ISD Symposium 2008

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800
The UC Berkeley School of Information hosted the second annual Information and Service Design (ISD) symposium on March 14, 2008. The symposium reflects the ISD program's ongoing efforts to provide a focus for teaching and research on the skills and concepts required by a services-led and information-powered economy. Services bring together increasingly global and interconnected developments in business, law, computing, communications, research, and education. Information exchange and collaboration are at the heart of "service", whether they are taking place through person-to-person, person-to-machine, or machine-to-machine interactions. This symposium explored these themes, and featured the best graduate student papers on information and the services economy.

Educating America: Challenges for the Next President

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Choosing the President: Campaigning and Governing in War and Peace

Educating America: Challenges for the Next President
Co-sponsored with the School of Education

Bruce Fuller, Professor of Education, University of California at Berkeley
Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education, Stanford University
Russlynn Ali, Executive Director, Education Trust - West
Moderator: P. David Pearson, Dean, School of Education, University of California at Berkeley

Sponsored by The Institute of Governmental Studies, The Institute of International Studies, Boalt Hall School of Law, and The Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, and California Magazine

Elections: What will it take to get elected in 2008?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Bruce Cain and Dan Schnur) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
San Francisco City Club
Speakers:

Bruce Cain, Heller Professor of Political Science in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science; Director of the UC Washington Center; Co-Director, Cal Class of '68 Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement
A member of the Berkeley faculty since 1989, Professor Cain has served as a polling consultant and a redistricting consultant. He also provides political commentary for radio and television stations in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and has written and edited a wide range of books on elections and politics in general. In 2000, Professor Cain received the Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Trinity College, Oxford, and received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Dan Schnur, Lecturer of Political Science, Institute of Governmental Studies
One of California's leading Republican political and media strategists, Schnur has worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns. He served as the national director of communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain, spent five years as chief media spokesman for California Gov. Pete Wilson, and worked as the press secretary for Wilson's 1994 reelection campaign. Schnur writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Sacramento Bee, and acts as a political commentator on radio and television. He is a graduate of the American University in Washington.

For more information, visit the Discover Cal webpage.

California Colloquium on Water - Barton Thompson

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Barton Thompson) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Protecting Watershed Services Through Law, Regulation and Markets

Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson: Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.

Summary: Among the most valuable of ecosystem services are those related to watersheds, including water quality and flow regulation. New York City's decision in the 1990s to invest in watershed protection in the Catskills and Delaware water basins has led many to believe or hope that markets and public policies focused on the value of these services can increase conservation of key watershed lands. A survey completed two years ago, however, showed little effort by most water suppliers in California to protect their watersheds. In some regions of the nation, water suppliers are even selling off watershed lands or managing the land in a way that might undermine water quality. This presentation will look at what efforts private and public entities are currently taking place (or not taking place) to protect these "watershed services," what the potential is (and obstacles are) to protecting watersheds through their services, and what public policies the government could pursue to promote greater protection of watershed services and thus the watersheds that provide them. This examination of watershed services will also offer insights into the opportunities provided by the broader concept of ecosystem services.

More information a bout this series is available at the Water Resources Center Archives' California Colloquium on Water website.

Can Democracy Afford to Neglect the Poor?

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Alejandro Toledo) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Alejandro Toledo, Ph.D., is the former president of Peru (2001?06) and the founder and current president of the Global Center for Development and Democracy which focuses on the interrelationship between poverty and inequality and the future of democracy. He is a Payne Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, both at Stanford.

Sponsored by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Latin American Studies.

2008 UC Berkeley Energy Symposium - Leadership at the Nexus of Science, Policy & Business

webcast@media.berkeley.edu (Various) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800
Presented by the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative
The second annual UC Berkeley Energy Symposium - "Leadership at the Nexus of Science, Policy & Business" - brings together leaders in energy from both the public and private sectors to discuss the innovative science, technology, and requisite public policies that will shape the future of energy in the United States and across the globe.

The symposium highlights clean energy innovations emerging from several segments of the UC Berkeley community including: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Haas School of Business; Energy and Resources Group; UC Energy Institute; Boalt Hall School of Law; College of Engineering; College of Chemistry; Goldman School of Public Policy; Institute of Transportation Studies; College of Natural Resources; and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.

Agenda

Welcoming Remarks & Keynote

Breakout Session 1: Carbon Capture & Sequestration: A Viable Alternative?

Breakout Session 2: Transportation Sector Solutions

Breakout Session 3: The Future of Nuclear Power in the US

Breakout Session 4: Carbon Neutral Technologies at Berkeley Ready to be Commercialized

Afternoon Keynote

Breakout Session 5: Advances in Green Building & Green Development

Breakout Session 6: Can Fossils Evolve? A Discussion about Alternative Energy from an Oil and Gas Perspective

Breakout Session 7: The Influence of Policy & Law on Technical Innovation

Breakout Session 8: Global Dimensions of Sustainable Energy

Plenary Panel & Closing Remarks