Events

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2014 Colloquium Series (ER295)

An interdisciplinary symposium, presented by the Berkeley Population Center, together with the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging and the Department of Demography […]

“Hack for a Cause” — the 2nd annual Social Innovation Hackathon is partnering with Heifer International for 24 hours of hacking to end world hunger […]

The genius of the pioneers of the Internet was to keep the network of links and routers – the “plumbing” – dumb and minimal, placing […]

A Panel of Local Innovators

With special guest Monica Lam. High Tech, Low Life follows two of China’s first “citizen reporters” as they roam the country reporting on social and […]

As more and more data moves to the cloud, data replication has become prohibitively costly and there is an acute need for efficient, fault-tolerant schemes […]

A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a softly-hued, ringed planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine […]

In this presentation, the first to be held in the newly renovated Social Science Matrix space, Scott McDonald, Adjunct Professor, Marketing at Columbia Business School […]

The essence of public health is the prevention of preventable suffering and the creation and promotion of a world in which all can truly thrive. […]

The View from the Top lecture series spotlights thought leaders in technology, industry and education, bringing them onto campus to share the latest developments and […]

Join Tom Steyer, advanced energy advocate, investor and philanthropist, for the 6th Annual Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy. Moderated by Governor […]

Come join us for an exciting and thought provoking discussion on the role Bay Area-based social enterprises play in developing economies.

Advanced driver assistance systems already help drivers reach their destinations safely and more comfortably. Future systems will evolve from driver assistance over highly automated vehicles […]

Personality traits form a key driver behind people’s behavior, cognitions, motivations and emotions; and thus assessing others’ personality is a basic social skill and a […]

High-throughput imaging technologies provide a pathway to deliver better health care solutions. This presentation introduces new approaches based on time-encoded single-pixel cameras, enabling a number […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

WHAT: “Universal Access to All Knowledge” presented by Mr. Brewster Kahle. Will we allow ourselves to re-invent our concept of libraries to expand and to […]

Current and former members of Congress and Bay Area technologists address the prospects for solving congressional dysfunction The Ash Center, the Center on Civility & […]

#Hack4Congress brings together political scientists, technologists, designers, lawyers, organizational psychologists, and lawmakers to foster new digital tools, policy proposals and other innovations to address the […]

Join us for the first FREE webinar of the 5th Annual 21st Century New Media Training Series, “Telling Stories That Matter: Visual Storytelling for Health” […]

Neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. Electrocorticography (ECoG) is an electrophysiological technique where electrical potentials are recorded from the […]

The BCNM is an interdisciplinary community that draws together artists, humanists, and technologists to effectively analyze and shape developments in new media. This Spring, we’re […]

Dr. Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician and writer who has twice been elected Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He was previously […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group 21st Annual Lecture on Energy and the Environment

The electric power grid will need to be dramatically different by 2050. The existing grid is centralized and hierarchical. It assumes generation can be accurately […]

Clinically viable and minimally invasive neural interfaces stand to revolutionize disease care for patients of neurological conditions. To enable chronic and stable neural recording, we […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Our lands provide us food and resources in addition to acting as a carbon sink, making them one of the most important pieces of the […]

Executive education program for senior health leaders from around the world. Focus: globally-sourced solutions/innovations for health policy and management challenges. In a decade 480 leaders […]

Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich discuss Professor Stiglitz’s new book, The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do about Them. Books will be […]

Rita-Marie Conrad, Center for Teaching & Learning This presentation provides a framework that can be used in engaging learners in a digital learning environment and […]

In this talk, I will present how to see the world’s healthcare crisis and the fundamental problems of current medicine in a grain of iSAND […]

The Sustainability Involvement Expo will showcase pathways of involvement for students with sustainability interests and career plans. The Expo will include student, campus, and local […]

Does cell phone and cordless phone radiation increase your risk of cancer and other health problems? Classified as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” by the World […]

About PROFESSOR GI-WOOK SHIN Professor Gi-Wook Shin is the director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; the Tong Yang, Korea Foundation, and Korea […]

In this lecture, Shin and Moon discuss how Korea can deal with the main challenges associated with inbound and outbound student mobility, i.e., cultural diversity […]

Founded by serial entrepreneur Mar Hershenson and famed investor Pejman Nozad, the $50M seed-stage firm Pejman Mar Ventures has announced a seed funding competition exclusively […]

“Internet voting is the wave of the future and the way to save money while increasing voter participation, especially by young people.” Such opinions, combined […]

Energy and Resources Group Fall 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)

#30in30in30 is an initiative supported by Aging2.0 to encourage local communities around the world to host pitch events for new innovative products and services that […]

George Vida, Patent examiner, European Patent Office (EPO), The Hague Abstract: Young scientists and engineers working on cutting edge science may face every day the […]

George Vida, Patent examiner, European Patent Office (EPO), The Hague Abstract: Young scientists and engineers working on cutting edge science may face every day the […]

George Vida, Patent examiner, European Patent Office (EPO), The Hague Abstract: Young scientists and engineers working on cutting edge science may face every day the […]

The Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems brings together researchers from around the world who are working on breakthrough improvements in energy efficiency for […]

Pundits thought it would never happen. A first-in-the-nation bill that provides health coverage for all undocumented children will soon be enacted in California. Learn from […]

The conference, to be held October 2-3 will be comprised of a Friday evening keynote and reception at the Chevron Auditorium, three round-table sessions over […]

Join us for a timely discussion on how we can build consensus and create bipartisan solutions to ensure a sustainable water future for our state.