Arthur B. McDonald, Queen's University
Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect. However, in recent years large detectors located in deep laboratories to avoid cosmic background radiation have helped to define the properties of neutrinos and their role in the most basic laws of physics. Neutrinos have also become a valuable cosmic messenger, providing unique information from the core of the Sun and from the deepest reaches of the Universe. The lecture will discuss the current status of neutrino experiments, the role of neutrinos in basic physics and astrophysics and future measurements made possible by the low radioactivity experimental environment.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/people/mcdonald.html
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/
Goldman School of Public Policy Board of Advisors dinner (October 18, 2007)
Speaker: Michael R. Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission
Introductory Speakers:
James D. Marver, Chair, GSPP Board of Advisors
Mason Willrich, member, GSPP Board of Advisors
Pascaline Dupas (Stanford) discussed her study to document the impacts of the 2007 presidential election crisis in Kenya, which resulted in over 1,200 deaths and 500,000 displaced individuals. In addition to lost income suffered by market vendors and shopkeepers, informal sex workers engaged in riskier sexual behavior, suggesting similar outcomes (and subsequent increases in the rates of sexually transmitted infections) in other contexts.
The Presence of the Past: Legal Dimensions of Armenian-Turkish Relations
This symposium explores three contentious issues which are preventing Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.
Speakers: Stephan Astourian, The University of Claifornia, Berkeley; Alfred de Zayas, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations; Susan Karamanian, The George Washington University Law School; Catherine Kessedjian, University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II; Raymond Kevorkian, Institut français de géopolitique, Université Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis; Serge Sur, University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II
Sponsors: Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Institute of (ISEEES), The Armenian Studies Program, the Western Armenian National Congress
http://iseees.berkeley.edu/