On Friday July 13 at noon, faculty and other members of the Physics Department helped the campus community understand the significance of discovering the Higgs Boson, the particle that was predicted by Peter Higgs almost 50 years ago. Mark Richards, Executive Dean of the College of Letters & Sciences, will host this discussion for the Berkeley community. Professors Beate Heinemann, an experimental physicist and a member of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in CERN, Switzerland, and Lawrence Hall, a theoretical physicist and former Director of the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, explained what the Higgs is, why it was predicted and how it was proven to exist. They were joined by panel members Professor Marjorie Shapiro, also a member of the Atlas experiment, Miller Fellow Josh Ruderman and PhD student and ATLAS member Louise Skinnari.

Computer Science 61B, 002 - Spring 2015 Data Structures - Joshua A. Hug All rights reserved

In 1870, sea captain Lorenzo Baker docked in Jersey City with a boatload of Jamaican bananas. After making a tidy profit on his spur-of-the-moment investment, Baker launched himself in the banana business, establishing the company that would eventually become United Fruit. In its efforts to make a perishable, tropical fruit a nutritional mainstay in the temperate North, the company would foster both innovation and intrigue. At its height, the United Fruit Company owned huge swathes of land in Latin America and had the power to install and depose presidents and strongmen. In this workshop we will examine the legacy of the company known as the Octopus as well as the present-day challenges facing banana-producing countries. Jean Spencer is Outreach and Publications Coordinator at the Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley. http://clas.berkeley.edu/

May Superman Pray? The Role of Faith-Based Schools in School Choice Luncheon Speaker Michael W. McConnell, Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University; former federal judge, US Court of Appeals, tenth Circuit