Planning for the 2008 Olympics has literally changed the face of Beijing. Urban image, construction, event-led city marketing, the society of spectacle, and the civilizing process through city construction have radically transformed daily life and public perceptions of the capital. This workshop will discuss aspects of this change, and the economic, political, and social implication of Olympics-led urban renewal in Beijing.
Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Associate Professor, School of Design,
University of Quebec at Montreal
"Building the Dream: The Making of Beijing's Olympic Image"
You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley
"From Property Rights to Residents' Rights: Urban Construction and Grassroots Resistance in Beijing"
Youjeong Oh, Graduate Student, Geography, UC Berkeley
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11, 001 - Spring 2015
Americans and the Global Forest - Lynn Huntsinger
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Temina Madon (CEGA) opened the symposium by highlighting the common questions to be explored in the ensuing presentations: Which mitigation and adaptation strategies actually work? And what are the barriers we face to good policy design?
Man Ann Bates (J-PAL) described J-PAL's and CEGA's approach: Identify the most critical gaps in our knowledge, fund rigorous impact evaluations to help answer these questions, disseminate the resulting policy lessons, and partner with policymakers to scale up policies that have been proven to be effective. A key strength of this approach is the requisite close collaboration with policymakers and practitioners who understand the issues on the ground, two of whom are presenting today (Veronica Irastorza and Hardik Shah).
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. Andre Linde will briefly describe the status of this theory in view of recent observational data obtained by the Planck satellite. Rather paradoxically, this theory predicts that on a very large scale, much greater than what we can see now, the world may look totally different. Instead of being a single spherically symmetric balloon, our universe may look like a "multiverse,” a collection of many different exponentially large balloons ("univ-erses") with different laws of low-energy physics operating in each of them. The new cosmological paradigm, supported by developments in string theory, changes the standard views on the origin and the global structure of the universe and on our own place in the world.
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Watch clips from the kun opera The Peony Pavilion while writer/producer Kennth Pai (Pai Hsien-yung), Professor Emeritus of Chinese literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, talks about his passion for The Peony Pavilion and explains why kun opera is called "the mother of all operas."
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation