The Chancellor of UC Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, in conversation about:
·An unprecedented grant from the Hewlett Foundation designed to sustain faculty excellence.
·The new Energy Biosciences Institute that will be funded by a $500 million research grant from BP, the global energy corporation.
·The role and responsibilities of the new Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion
·Recent initiatives to increase financial aid for undergraduates.
·The role and mission of an elite public university.
CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Instructor Brian Harvey
Spring 2008
Introduction to programming and computer science. This course exposes students to techniques of abstraction at several levels: (a) within a programming language, using higher-order functions, manifest types, data-directed programming, and message-passing; (b) between programming languages, using functional and rule-based languages as examples. It also relates these techniques to the practical problems of implementation of languages and algorithms on a von Neumann machine. There are several significant programming projects, programmed in a dialect of the LISP language.
Biology 1B, 001 - Fall 2014
General Biology - Alan Shabel, John P. Huelsenbeck, David D Ackerly
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CONFERENCE ON AMBIGUITY, UNCERTAINTY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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Session 2: Economics of Ambiguity and Ambiguity Aversion
Speakers: Sujoy Mukherji, Paolo Ghirardato and Ani Guerdjikova
Over the past decade, there has been considerable progress in the economic theory of ambiguity and ambiguity aversion, involving decisions where the decision maker does not know, or is uncertain about, the probabilities attached to various potential outcomes. This is an appropriate characterization of the current understanding of many facets of climate change science: the uncertainty is pervasive and profound, with many unknowns, and unknown unknowns, that cannot be characterized in terms of a conventional probability distribution. The conference explores the application of developments in the economic theory of ambiguity to climate change policy, including both mitigation policy (the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation policy (coping with the consequences of climate change). Some, but not all, of the fog of uncertainty will gradually dissipate over time, but meanwhile policy decisions have to be made now, whether for mitigation or adaptation. Climate change policy analysis needs to reflect not only the prevailing uncertainty and ambiguity, but also the anticipated future resolution of uncertainty and ambiguity. The challenge is to incorporate risk and risk aversion, ambiguity and ambiguity aversion, and learning, more adequately into the formulation of a framework for decision making on climate change policy. This is the central focus of the conference.
To explore this issue, the conference brings some leading researchers on the economic theory of uncertainty and ambiguity and the economics of climate change together with some leading climate scientists and modelers. Some of the invitees have been asked to make formal presentations or provide formal comments; others invitees are expected to contribute to the discussion from the floor.
Environmental Economics and Policy 145, 001 - Fall 2014
Health and Environmental Economic Policy - Michael Anderson
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