Bio Engineering/ME C117: Structural Aspects of Biomaterials - Professor Lisa Pruitt
This course provides an overview of medical devices, FDA regulatory issues, biocompatibility and sterilization technology. It examines biomechanical properties: isotropy/anisotropy, stiffness, bending stresses, contact stresses, multiaxial loading, plasticity, fatigue, fracture, wear, corrosion, design issues. Also covered: Orthopedics, Dental, Cardiovascular, and Soft Tissue Reconstruction.
Professor Pruitt's current research is focused on fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, cyclic damage zones, and evolution of structure due to cyclic loading and environment in advanced polymers and biomaterials; tribology of...
11am-12:10pm @ David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room
Introducing the 2016 Laureates in Fundamental Physics
Chair: Stanley Wojcicki (Stanford)
Moderator: Yuri Milner (Breakthrough Prize Foundation)
The 2016 Breakthrough Prize Symposium is co-hosted by UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, Stanford, and the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. This daylong event includes talks and panels featuring Breakthrough Prize laureates in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics, as well as other distinguished guests. For more details on the day's activities please visit: http://breakthroughprize.berkeley.edu/symposium
2010 Conference on Global Health Diagnostics
"GHDx Innovations Summit: Translating Ideas into Impact"
Industry & Partnerships Panel
- Filiberto de Cal (Novartis)
- Peter Dailey (Cepheid)
- Stuart Coulson (D-Rev)
- Andy Robertson (BVGH)
- Erik Douglas (CellScope)
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
In this interview Dr. Yoshimichi Sato (Tohoku University, Japan) emphasizes the power of quantitative sociology for making sense of social "puzzles", while also stressing the need to supplement quantitative analysis with qualitative approaches and knowledge of the local and national contexts being studied. He also discusses his own path to sociology and he was drawn to it as a way of addressing inequalities and understanding various forms of stratification.
This is part of a series of interviews with the 22 members of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association (ISA). The interviews can be found at the ISA website:
http://www.isa-sociology.org/journeys-through-sociology/
Watch and listen as Kate van Orden, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Music, talks about Jordi Savall's concert titled Las Músicas del Quijote (The Music of Quixote), presented by Cal Performances. Professor van Orden discusses the many musical references in Miguel de Cervantes' celebrated novel, Don Quixote, which Savall used when creating the concert. http://calperformances.org
UC Berkeley leads NASA's mission to launch five identical space probes to solve a decades-long mystery about the origin of magnetic storms that turn the green, shimmering curtains of the Earth's Northern and Southern Lights into colorful, dancing light shows. Research Physicist Stephen Mende demonstrates the camera and computer equipment that track auroras from the ground for the THEMIS mission. (1:00 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/02/18_themis.shtml