Lectures

Data and sustainability science and practice: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science

Lecture | September 18 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library

Featured Speaker:  Dan Kammen, Professor and Chair, Energy and Resources Group

Sponsor:  Berkeley Institute for Data Science

The energy-information nexus has become a key tool and research area in efforts aimed at decarbonizing energy systems, enabling and operating the 'smart grid', which I will argue encompasses the utility-scale system, mini-grids, and off-grid energy systems. In this talk we will review a range of theoretical models and practical tools where data science, machine learning, and human-machine...   More >

Methodological Individualism and the Age of Microeconomics

Lecture | September 18 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker:  Annie McClanahan, English, University of California, Irvine

Sponsor:  The Program in Critical Theory

Annie McClanahan is an assistant professor of English at UC Irvine. Her first book, Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and 21st Century Culture (Stanford, 2016) explores the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. She is also working on two new projects. The first...   More >

Together But Apart: Care Work in Filipino Transnational Families in the Digital Age

Lecture | September 18 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library | Note change in time

Speaker:  Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Assistant Professor of Sociology, San Francisco State University

Sponsor:  Center for Southeast Asia Studies

Prof. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center) will discuss her new book, which explores the dynamics of gender and technology of care work in Filipino transnational families in the Philippines and the U.S.

Solving the Patient Access Paradox: Julie Yoo at the Forum

Lecture | September 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Koret Classroom (F320)

Speaker/Performer:  Julie Yoo, Kyruus

Sponsor:  The Berkeley Forum

One of the generation-defining problems in healthcare is what we've coined as "The Patient Access Paradox" - the fact that patients are told to wait weeks for a doctor appointment, despite the fact that 20-40% of the health system's appointment capacity is underutilized. Kyruus provides a first-in-class solution to provider organizations to solve this problem by taking a "Moneyball" approach to...   More >

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