Sensors for Smart Civil InfrastructureDesign, construction, maintenance and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labor. This can be achieved by understanding the performance of the infrastructure, both during its construction and throughout its design life, through innovative monitoring. Advances in sensor systems offer intriguing possibilities ...
Seeing Complexity: Visualization Tools in Global Environmental Politics and GovernanceKate O’Neil’s colloquium explores how visualization tools and applications help scholars of global environmental politics and governance understand problems that are complex, linked, and cross-scalarâ€"the critical characteristics of contemporary environmental problems. This talk applies a visualization approach to the politics of waste disposal projects as climate offsets within the Clean ...
Michal Gavish(Visual Artist) on "Visualizing DNA""Visualizing DNA" is a collaboration between a Stanford geneticist and a visual artist...Read more Abstract forthcoming... Read moreBREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
The Science of Star Wars: The Lowdown on Space Travel, Aliens & The ForceMany people assume that our descendants will join a galaxy-wide, multi-world society similar to that portrayed in the “Star Wars†franchise. And given the possibility that at least some aliens could be aggressive, interstellar conflict as seen in science fiction movies doesn’t seem implausible. But are these films at all ...
