Environmental Economics and Policy C115, 001 - Fall 2014 Modeling and Management of Biological Resources - Wayne Marcus Getz Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for California's Levees: The recent flooding and devastation of the greater New Orleans region during hurricane Katrina represented the most costly peace-time failure of an engineered system in North American history. Extensive investigations and analyses have been performed by several major teams in the wake of this disaster, and some very important lessons have been learned. Many of these have very direct and urgent applications to California's levee systems and flood risk exposure, and to the security of our State's vital water supply systems. UC Berkeley Professor Ray Seed discusses what California can learn from New Orleans and how to prevent a...

2012 Segre Lecture - Dr. Peter Jenni, CERN Scientist and former ATLAS Spokesperson For the past three years experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have begun exploring physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest of initial physics results has been obtained that allow us to test the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles, and to make searches Beyond the SM (BSM), at the highest energy level ever reached in a laboratory. Most exciting is the recent discovery of a new particle that may well be the long-awaited Higgs Boson. This discovery would also establish the postulated electro-weak symmetry breaking mechanism in the SM. Other, far-reaching results can be reported for BSM physics searches like Supersymmetry (SUSY) and its implication for Dark Matter in the Universe, Extra Dimensions, and the production of new heavy particles. Besides these physics results, the history and technical challenges of the LHC project, its status, future physics prospects, and LBNL's prominent role in them will also be covered briefly in this talk.

Legal Studies 103, 001 - Fall 2014 Theories of Law and Society - David Lieberman Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs