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Sunday, November 1, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu Monday, November 2, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu Berkeley Lectures in Chemical Engineering: Professor Ronald Larson: “Modeling polymer dynamics in microflows: from DNA to bacterial flagella”Lecture | November 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 101 Morgan Hall Professor Ronald Larson, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Chemical Engineering, Department of CCNA Preparation—Routing and Switching TheoryCourse | September 14 – November 16, 2009 every Monday | 6:30-9:30 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension Peninsula Center 1991 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063 Get a solid foundation in modern routing and switching theory and prepare to take the CCNA-Routing & Switching Certification Exam (640-802 CCNA) in this 30-hour course. Through lectures and hands-on router simulations you learn how to use router simulators (downloaded or Internet-based). You learn about Internetworking, Internet Protocols, IP subnetting and VLSM, IOS, IP routing,...... More > $645 Enrollment opens July 20. Enroll by September 15 by calling 510-642-4111. Tuesday, November 3, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu Strategic Issues in Energy Resources and Politics: with Dan KammenCourse | October 6 – November 10, 2009 every Tuesday | 12-1:30 p.m. | David Brower Center, Main Auditorium 2150 Allston, Berkeley, CA 94704 Severin Borenstein; Per Peterson; Mason Willrich; Chris Somerville Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Energy is the biggest industry on the planet - come and find out its secrets!... More > Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Cal Parents Enroll online, or by calling 510-642-9934. Beyond Engineering: Career Panel for Engineering StudentsPanel Discussion: BEAR Event: Students: Career | November 3 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg., Room 290 Engineering students are invited to attend a career panel featuring Berkeley Engineering alumni working in non-engineering fields such as law, investments, journalism, and development. Alumni will share what it’s like to work outside a traditional engineering job and offer tips and techniques on how to find these careers.... More > RSVP by November 2 online, or by calling Dawn Kramer at 510-643-7828, or by emailing Dawn Kramer at bears@berkeley.edu. Robotics and Embedded Systems Seminar: Understanding the Genome of Data CentersSeminar | November 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) To meet the growing demand of Online Services, data centers consume Point of Care Diagnostics Meeting: Venture Capital for Diagnostics in the Developing WorldSeminar | November 3 | 6-7 p.m. | 340 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg. Ramesh Subramani, MD, New Leaf Venture Partners Ramesh Subramani MD, New Leaf Venture Partners Wednesday, November 4, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu Matrix Computations Seminar: Tensor approximation tools free of the curse of dimensionalitySeminar | November 4 | 11:10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall Prof. Eugene Tyrtyshnikov, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Even "simple" case in higher dimensions may require data elements Integrated Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography: A New Tool for Biomedical ImagingLecture | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium Simon Cherry, Professor of Bioengineering, UC Davis CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) The complete series can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-fall2009.As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast the day and time of the event. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.... More > Bioengineering Dept SeminarSeminar | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall Professor Hana El-Samad, University of California, San Francisco Fall 2009 Seminar Series CE92 Intro to Civil Engineering Seminar - Fall 2009: Environmental Engineering. Present Applications and Future TrendsLecture | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall William Faisst, Brown and Caldwell, Walnut Creek, CA Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Environmental engineering. Present applications & future trends... More > High Speed Rail and Air: What We Do Know and What We Do Not KnowSeminar | November 4 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall Matthew A. Coogan, Director of the New England Transportation Institute Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Abstract: What do we know about the predicted impact of high speed Research opportunities at the National Institute of Standards and TechnologyColloquium | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, HP Auditorium (306) Dr. Ronald Boisvert, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) One of the major research components of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the Information Technology Laboratory. Thursday, November 5, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu TRUST Security Seminar Series: Polymorphic Shellcode:The Demise of Signature-based Detection. Smashing the Stack with HydraSeminar | November 5 | 1-2 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge Salvatore J. Stolfo, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology Recent work on the analysis of polymorphic shellcode engines suggests that modern obfuscation methods would soon eliminate the usefulness of signature-based network intrusion detection methods and supports growing views that the new generation of shellcode cannot be accurately and efficiently represented by the string signatures which current IDS and AV scanners rely upon. We...... More > Engineering Employer RoundtableWorkshop: Students: Career: Advising | November 5 | 2-4 p.m. | Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg., Room 290 Co-sponsored by the College of Engineering and the Cal Career Center Thinking about applying for internships or jobs? Meet with a engineering/technical professional to learn about specific technical fields and companies in a table discussion setting. Get pointers on how to successfully market yourself. Bring your resume. Revolutionizing Education: A Learning Moment: Special Talk Featuring One Laptop Per ChildInformation Session | November 5 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall Charles Kane, President, COO, One Laptop Per Child Stacey Kertsman, EduWeavers, South Africa; Paul Commons, EduWeavers, South Africa Emerging and Neglected Diseases, Center of Learn about opportunities to participate in the One Laptop Per Child Corps.... More > Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brainSeminar | November 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall Jean-Jacques Slotine, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences - Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences - Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, Nonlinear Systems Laboratory- MIT Mechanical Engineering, Department of (ME) Although neurons as computational elements are 7 orders of magnitude slower than their artificial counterparts, the primate brain grossly outperforms robotic algorithms in all but the most structured tasks. Parallelism alone is a poor explanation, and much recent functional modelling of the central nervous system focuses on its modular, heavily feedback-based computational...... More > New Design Techniques for Existing and Futuristic FPGAsPresentation | November 5 | 5-6 p.m. | Cory Hall, 540 A/B Deming Chen, Department of ECE, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) As cost and complexity for ASIC designs grow in a steady and rapid pace along the technology scaling, FPGA designs offer an attractive alternative. In this talk, I will mainly present two recent research results on FPGAs generated at University of Illinois. The first targets existing FPGAs for performance optimization using a novel BDD (binary decision graph)-based synthesis...... More > Study Abroad in Science and EngineeringInformation Session: Students | November 5 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg. Berkeley Programs for Study Abroad, BPSA, Engineering, College of Come learn about study abroad opportunities in engineering and the physical from study abroad and science and engineering advisors, as well as engineering and science students who have studied abroad.... More > CCNA Preparation--Network Security TheoryCourse | September 3 – November 5, 2009 every Thursday | 6:30-9:30 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension Peninsula Center 1991 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063 Gain a solid foundation in modern network security theory and prepare to take the CCNA-Security Exam (640-553-11NS) in this 30-hour course. You learn about core security technologies as well as how to develop security policies and mitigate risks. IT organizations that employ CCNA Security-holders look for staff members have the knowledge you gain in this course, staff who can...... More > Friday, November 6, 2009Amazing Gate: Rescuing a Campus IconExhibit - Artifacts: BEAR Event | May 18 – December 23, 2009 every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Doe Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor “Amazing Gate” looks at the history of Sather Gate and gives details of the restoration process to repair damage from rust and corrosion.... More > All Audiences All Audiences Open during the operating hours of Doe Library. See our website for current hours: www.lib.berkeley.edu GaN Nanowires: ee298-2Seminar | November 6 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 521 Cory Hall Jeff Urban, LBL Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) The generation and control of directional white light is critical for many technological, spectroscopic, and imaging applications. On the millimeter or greater scale, it may be attained and manipulated via standard optical techniques, however, there currently exists no general method to generate and direct white light at nanoscale dimensions.... More > Environmental Engineering Seminar Series: Mechanistic Models for Simulating the Factors Influencing Bulk to Total Bacteria Ratio in Drinking Water Distribution SystemsSeminar | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall Soumya Kini, Brown and Caldwell Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) In this research, mechanistic models were developed to simulate how residence time, chlorine concentration, and water velocity influence the fraction of Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC) bacteria in bulk water relative to the total HPC bacteria in the system.... More > An Overview of Energy Research at Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryLecture | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall Ashok Gadgil, Professor and Deputy Director, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, LBNL CITRIS (Ctr for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Heterogeneous Integration Approach for Electronics, Solid-State Lighting, and PhotovoltaicSeminar | November 6 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, 521 Cory (Hogan Room) Professor Nathan W. Cheung, EECS/UCB Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) Recent advances in layer transfer technology enable a new paradigm to integrate Organic/Polymer Solar Cells -- Past, Present and Future: Nano Seminar SeriesSeminar | November 6 | 2-3 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Bldg. Prof. Alan Sellinger, Stanford University, Materials Science & Engineering Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute Solar cell efficiencies and lifetimes based on organic small molecules and polymeric materials have been gradually increasing over the past 10 years. For example, power conversion efficiencies (PCE) and lifetimes of 1% and a few hours have now reached nearly 7% and thousands of hours. Graphene-based materials and their potential for applications, including ultracapacitorsSeminar | November 6 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall Rod Ruoff, Cockrell Family Regents Chair, Dept of Mechanical Engineering and the Texas Materials Institute - The University of Texas at Austin Mechanical Engineering, Department of (ME) Thermal chemical vapor deposition has been used to grow graphene on copper substrates [1] and isotopic labeling (13C vs 12C) to study the kinetics and mechanisms of the graphene growth on Cu [2]. This talk presents a suggested path for obtaining large area growth of high quality graphene in ways compatible with methods of the semiconductor industry. Furthermore, I will discuss...... More > Macroscopic Models for City EvacuationsSeminar | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall Stella So, PhD Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Abstract: Physical models for the city evacuation problem are Physics Graduate Student Social HourSocial Event | August 28, 2009 – December 28, 2012 every Friday | 5-7 p.m. | LeConte Hall, 375 - Helmholz Room Graduate students, staff, and faculty from any department are invited to this weekly event held by the Physics Graduate Student Association as a forum for informal networking and communication between scientists and science enthusiasts from all career levels. Come by for a relaxing atmosphere with delicious refreshments usually sponsored by the GA.... More > Saturday, November 7, 2009CEE Concrete Canoe TailgateSocial Event: Featured Event: Students: Parents | November 7 | O'Brien Hall, Breezeway Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) CEE’s Concrete Canoe, Bear Area, and its win at the 2009 ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition, will be honored during the Cal vs. Oregon State University football game on Saturday, November 7, at Memorial Stadium, Berkeley. |
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