GREAT BUILDINGS FROM THE MINDS OF THE ARCHITECT AND THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

Lecture: Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials | May 1 | 2:10-3 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker: Leslie E. Robertson, Leslie E. Robertson and Associates, New York City, New York

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Abstract
Using examples from the past, the speaker will illustrate and discuss where the structural engineer has provided a profound impact into the form, aesthetic, and function of important buildings. By integrating the skills of architects and struct...   More >

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Social: Because playing with cyrogenics is cool

Social Event | May 1 | 5-7 p.m. | 375 LeConte Hall

Sponsors: Society for Women in the Physical Sciences, Astronomy, Department of, Physics, Department of

The Society for Women in the Physical Sciences (SWPS) is hosting a liquid nitrogen ice cream social. Come make yummy ice cream by playing with cryogenics! Meet physics students, faculty and staff. Learn more about SWPS. Everyone welcome, invite your frien...   More >

An Insitu Boroscopic Quantitative Imaging Profiler (BQuIP) and Application to Steady Sheet and Oscillatory Swash Zone Sediment Flows

Seminar: Environmental Engineering | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall

Speaker/Performer: Edwin A. Cowen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

A Practical Policy Sensitive Activity-Based Model

Seminar: Transportation Engineering | May 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 240 Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker/Performer: Yoram Shiftan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Abstract: Activity-based modeling treats travel as being derived from the demand for personal activities. Travel decisions, therefore, become part of a broader activity scheduling process based on modeling the demand for activities rather than merely tri...   More >

River Migration and the Diversity of Floodplains

Colloquium | May 6 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 250 Goldman School of Public Policy

Speaker: Thomas Dunne, Professor, Departments of Earth Science and Geography, UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Sponsor: Water Resources Center Archives

This talk will describe river migration processes and the ways in which they generate floodplain complexity in rivers of South America and California....   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

The Local: organic, cooperative, student-run, low-price produce stand

Sale | March 12 – May 21, 2008 every Wednesday | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, front steps

Sponsor: ASUC Sustainability Team

Come buy delicious, fresh, local, pesticide-free produce from ASUC Sustainability Team's weekly produce stand. Every Wednesday on the steps of the MLK Student Union (where Telegraph meets Bancroft) 10am to 6pm....   More >

Integrating Climate Pollutants into Air Quality Programs

Seminar | May 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 775 Tan Hall

Speaker: Dr. Lydia Wegman, Director of the Health and Environmental Impacts Division for the Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, EPA

Sponsor: Prof. Ron Cohen

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar....   More >

Berkeley students working in China on the future of a water village in the Pearl River Delta and on the Grand Canal in Huangzhou

Colloquium | May 7 | 1-2 p.m. | 315A Wurster Hall

Speaker/Performer: Peter Bosselmann, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Sponsor: Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Dept. of

In January 2008 faculty and students from the Master of Urban Design together with Landscape Architecture/Environmental Planning students stayed on the campus at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou and worked on urban design conce...   More >

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Mac Arthur Maze, Fire and Reconstruction

Lecture: Engineering and Project Management | May 7 | 5:15-6:30 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker: Professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, Professor, CEE & Ctr. for Catastrophic Risk Management

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

The seminar focuses on the MacArthur Maze in Oakland, two spans of which collapsed on April 29, 2007 and will provide information on the following areas....   More >

Safe Affordable Drinking Water for Poor Communities in the Developing Countries

Lecture: Civil and Environmental Engineering | May 9 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 542 Davis Hall

Speaker: Dr. Ashok Gadgil, Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Despite huge advances in public supply of safe drinking water during the last century, 2 million deaths, mostly of children below 5, continue annually owing to bad quality drinking water (World Bank and WHO joint estimate)....   More >

Development of Water Robotics Platforms for Lagrangian Sensing of Environmental Flows

Seminar: Environmental Engineering | May 9 | 12-1 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall

Speaker/Performer: Alexandre Bayen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

26th Annual Geo-Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Lecture | May 9 | 12:30-5:30 p.m. |  Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center

Speakers: Demetrious Koutsoftas, Principal, ARUP; James K. Mitchell, Emeritus Professor, UCB and Virginia Tech

Speaker/Performer: Raymond Seed, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

R. Seed, “Lessons From Disaster:California’s New Levee and Water Infrastructure Challenges”

D. Koutsoftas, “Ground Characterization and Performance: A 25-Year Bay Area Perspective"

J. Mitchell, “1958-2008: Reflections a...   More >

Dynamic Traffic Assignment and the Route-Link Consistency Issue

Seminar | May 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 240 Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker/Performer: Hillel Bar-Gera, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Sponsor: Transportation Studies, Institute of

In this seminar I will use examples to show the route-link consistency issue in dynamic traffic models, as well as a possible solution for this problem. I will then present an implementation of the solution in a dynamic network loading model that integrat...   More >

Dynamic Traffic Assignment and the Route-Link Consistency Issue

Seminar: Transportation Engineering | May 9 | 4-5 p.m. | 240 Bechtel Engineering Center

Speaker/Performer: Hillel Bar Gera, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Sponsor: Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)

Abstract: Macroscopic (continuous-flow) dynamic traffic assignment model can be divided into two major families. The first family, including the LWR (kinematic waves) and cell-transmission models for example, emphasizes local driver behavior and focuses o...   More >

The Local: organic, cooperative, student-run, low-price produce stand

Sale | March 12 – May 21, 2008 every Wednesday | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, front steps

Sponsor: ASUC Sustainability Team

Come buy delicious, fresh, local, pesticide-free produce from ASUC Sustainability Team's weekly produce stand. Every Wednesday on the steps of the MLK Student Union (where Telegraph meets Bancroft) 10am to 6pm....   More >

Costa Rica: The Carbon Neutrality Challenge

Lecture | May 19 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Barrows Hall, Room 554

Speaker/Performer: Roberto Dobles, Ministry of Environment and Energy

Sponsors: Latin American Studies, Center for, Natural Resources Defense Council

Costa Rica has declared that it will go carbon neutral by 2021. To meet that challenge, energy officials from the Central American nation have gone on a fact-finding tour of the United States, seeking out best practices that can be incorporated at home. T...   More >

The Local: organic, cooperative, student-run, low-price produce stand

Sale | March 12 – May 21, 2008 every Wednesday | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, front steps

Sponsor: ASUC Sustainability Team

Come buy delicious, fresh, local, pesticide-free produce from ASUC Sustainability Team's weekly produce stand. Every Wednesday on the steps of the MLK Student Union (where Telegraph meets Bancroft) 10am to 6pm....   More >