The Influence of ENSO Phase on Floods and Sediment Transport in California Coastal Streams; given by Edmund Andrews, Hydrologist and Chief of River Mechanics Project, U.S. Geological Survey.
UC Berkeley students tell us their New Year's resolutions for 2014, resolutions past, their thoughts on the tradition, and ideas for campus resolutions.
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Poet, composer, and visual artist Anne Tardos has recently edited Thing of Beauty, a volume of Jackson Mac Lows new selected poems (California, 2008); her most recent book of poetry is I Am You (Salt, 2008). She is a 2009 Fellow in Poetry for the New York Foundation for the Arts. + Moving from discrete lyric sections and narrative shapes to innovative arrangements of the page, Maurice Scullys work is thrillingly variegated, wide-ranging, and entirely original in Irish poetry. A maker of large forms, he has worked for the past twenty-five years on a long project entitled Things That Happen. Doing the Same in English: A Sampler of Work, 1987-2008, appeared recently from Dedalus Press.
"Science Diplomacy and Nuclear Threats"
Siegfried S.Hecker, Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Siegfried S. Hecker, former Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, for a discussion of scientists, the national laboratories, and the threat posed by nuclear weapons. Hecker traces his career in material sciences, describes the evolution of his intellectual focus, and recalls his leadership of Los Alamos. He then traces the changes in the international security environment in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union discussing the response of the U.S. and the weapons laboratories to the momentous events that created a qualitatively different set of security challenges. Hecker then analyzes the threats posed by terrorist organizations, the dangers of nuclear proliferation, and the challenges for U.S. policy in assessing the motivation and capabilities of Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the political and technical dimensions of the international security landscape.
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