Urban modeling for enhancing master plan making: SIMPLAN for Ahmedabad, India

Lecture | June 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 316D Wurster Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dr. Bhargav Adhvaryu, Professor in Infrastructure Engineering & Management, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, Fulbright Visiting Professor at the UCLA Department of Urban Planning

Sponsor: Institute of Urban and Regional Development

Planners are usually faced with the decision of what planning policy to pursue in order to achieve the best possible future! Using modelsthat simulate urban dynamics, it is possible to test and assessalternative planning policies, thereby making the decision processmore objective and transparent. Examples are the full-fledged and complex land use—transport interaction models, which have been...   More >

Water and Ash: A Photographic Exploration of Patagonia's Wetlands and Volcanoes

Lecture | June 16 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Speaker: Anand Varma, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Science@Cal

Anand Varma, Staff Photographer at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, and contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine, gives a free public talk on the rainforests and volcanoes of Patagonia.

Target audience: General Public

Open to audience: All Audiences

Remote Sensing and Water Resources

Lecture | June 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Canceled

Speaker/Performer: Hamid Moradkhani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University

Sponsor: CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society)

Dr. Moradkhani received his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine in 2005 in civil and environmental engineering specializing in hydrology, hydraulics and water resources systems. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University (PSU) since September 2006 and received his early tenure in 2011. Prior to joining PSU, he was a...   More >

Rising from Tahrir: A Humanistic Take on The Egyptian Revolution with Author Hoda Rashad

Lecture | June 27 | 7:30 p.m. | International House, Home Room

Sponsor: International House

In any historic event, dramatic things happen. But a chronology of events never tells us what it was like to be there. What was it like for the mothers, the writers, the activists, the Muslim Brotherhood and others? Hoda Rashad will attempt to open a window into the unique lives, histories, opinions and actions that collided to define a new Egypt. She will share the experiences of 10 very...   More >