Going Live (a Computer Architect Perspective)Abstract: Professor Renau will talk about the still not published Live Simulation environment being developed by the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Live Simulation environment is a collaborative environment with statistical sampling for very fast computer architecture simulations. The talk will present the philosophy and a live demo of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Earth Day Talk: Climate Change and ViolenceProfessor Marshall Burke's research focuses on understanding how changes in environmental conditions affect a range of social and economic outcomes, and on understanding the causes and consequences of rural productivity improvements. In this talk, he will discuss the effects of climate change on violence, including wars, civil unrest, and strife, ...
The Antibiotics Crisis: The Health Care and Human Costs of Drug ResistanceAs part of a series of events sponsored by Kaiser Permanente focused on health care costs and affordability in the age of health care reform, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and School of Public Health present a provocative panel discussion on the antibiotics crisis, its roots in our ...
Where: BerkeleyCost:
Quantum Entanglement in Higher DimensionsThe 2015 Robert Hofstadter Memorial lecturer, Prof. Anton Zeilinger of the Univ. of Vienna & the Austrian Academy of Sciences, will give the Applied Physics/Physics colloquium.
Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes. The best theoretical explanation of this uniformity is provided by the inflationary theory. Rather paradoxically, this theory also predicts that on a very large scale, much greater than what we can see ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
How to Think Like a NaturalistJack will share his enthusiasm and passion for the natural world as he illustrates ways to improve one's observation of nature, and develop a curiosity and appreciation for one's role as steward of the natural world.Naturalist, award winning educator and artist John (Jack) Muir Laws is trained as a wildlife ...
Astronomy Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe by Norbert WernerJoin astrophysicist Norbert Werner, of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, for a presentation on The Dark Side of the Universe. Dr. Werner's talk will explore the 95% of the Universe that is unseen, "The Dark Side of the Universe," and will show how ...
