Michael Minear, Chief Information Officer at the UC Davis Medical Center, is a national leader in health-care information technology. He has an extensive record of leading transformations of large, complex organizations in the use of modern information technology.As a member of the executive leadership team of UC Davis Health System, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Future of Transportation in the East BayRenee Rivera joined the East Bay Bicycle Coalition (EBBC) in 2011 as executive director, after many years as a volunteer, board member, and most recently acting executive director at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Renee has a background in non-profit financial management and administration, and worked for many years at ...
Hurricane Sandy and other recent extreme weather events underscore the importance of preparing for climate variability and change. But understanding the on-the-ground implications of climate change can be challenging, especially since we can't precisely predict the future of our climate. Join Beth Rodehorst of ICF International and Joe LaClair of ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $10 General, Free for Members
SCIENCE!!! The Technology of Cleantech: Batteries and Fuel CellsEver wonder how batteries and fuel cells actually work? Join BERC, CLEE and BCLT for lunch as we explore the science of clean technology.• Speakers: Gao Liu, Electrochemical Technologies Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Heather Buckley, Arnold Group, U.C. Berkeley Department of Chemistry• Moderator: Alex Luce, Graduate Researcher, Materials Science ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Special Seminar in Paleobiology and GeobiologyShuzhong Shen is Director of the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology & Stratigraphy at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. An expert on the taxonomy and evolution of Carboniferous and Permian (360-250 million years ago) brachiopods, he has conducted field research in China, Russia, Japan ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
History of the DeltaLearn about the history of the delta - from the early 1800s up to 2012 - from framing, discovery of gold, railroad building, and levee building to the present time with Ranger Bill. 1,000 miles in scope, 60-80 man made islands, and a population that exceeds 500,000! Historical. Educational. Informative.
Toward Highly Dynamic Locomotion : Actuation, structure and control of the MIT cheetah robotRobot designers are increasingly searching for ideas from biology. The talk will introduce such bio-inspired robots that embody the hypothesized principles from the insights obtained by animal studies. Through these examples, the intricate processes of design principle extraction will be discussed. Current research in the MIT biomimetics lab is centered ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
JavaScript anticensorship proxies Censorship is an everyday reality for many of the world's Internet users. Users turn to circumvention systems like Tor; censors respond by blacklisting the addresses of those systems. This talk will cover the use of "flash proxies" to evade such blacklisting. Flash proxies-which despite the name, do not use Adobe ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Tracking and Curbing the Next PandemicProfessor Meyers will discuss global pandemics, why influenza remains a major threat, and how mathematical modeling has been combined with high performance computing to improve disease surveillance, forecasting and intervention.Speaker: Lauren Meyers Room T175
The increasing exposure of society to natural hazards has made the forecasting of extreme events a pressing scientific concern. No aspect of this problem has been more vexing than earthquake prediction. The century-long failure to identify observable precursory signals diagnostic of impending events has led to an alternative approach, pioneered ...
