Can California's Water Infrastructure Sustain Future Climate Change?; given by Norman Miller, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Adjunct Professor of Hydrology, University of Arizona, Tuscon.
From Boom to Bust: Insights into the Current Economic Downturn What is the global nature of the recession?
How did we get here? The credit crisis and the recession.
Martha Olney, Department of Economics
Sponsored by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley) http://www.olli.berkeley.edu/
This lecture by Sir Peter Hall (Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, and Bartlett Professor of Planning & Regeneration, University College, London) focuses on planning 20th-century cities. CED 50th Anniversary Celebration - Traditions of Design Activism http://www.ced.berkeley.edu
Statistics 21, 001 - Fall 2014
Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business - Fletcher H Ibser
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The talk will be a brief recounting of Diego Rivera's visits to San Francisco, which bookend the relatively short span of time he actually spent in the U.S. The talk will include little known anecdotes about the connections in the artist's world, material gleaned mainly from the Diego Rivera collection at City College of San Francisco's Rosenberg Library.
Will Maynez is the Physics Department lab manager at the City College of San Francisco. Trained as a painter, he has spent the last 14 years investigating the college's Pan American Unity mural and Rivera's theme of the reconciliation of art and science.
Francine Prose presented her lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Prose is former President of the PEN American Center and author of over 16 books of fiction, a book on Anne Frank, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Currently a visiting professor of Literature at Bard College, Prose has written for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Atlantic Monthly, ARTNews, the New York Times, among others, and she is a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine.
"The Future of the Euro: Lessons from History" Conference, April 16, 2013, UC Berkeley (10 of 12 videos - Audio podcast also available)
Monetary Union panel: Lars Jonung, Lund University & Swedish Fiscal Policy Council
Cosponsors: Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, Austrian National Bank, UCB's Institute of European Studies & EU Center of Excellence
http://eurofuture2013.wordpress.com/