In 1971, Leon O. Chua published a seminal paper on the missing basic circuit element. Leon O. Chua and Sung-Mo Kang published a paper, in 1976, that described a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices and systems. Just recently, Stan Williams and his research team at HP Labs unveiled a two-terminal titanium dioxide nanoscale device in Nature magazine that exhibited memristor characteristics. This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits. Program (Part 3) Panel Discussion Pushkar Apte, Moderator, Vice President of Technology Programs, Semiconductor Indsutry Association (SIA) Jeff Welser, Director, Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Stan Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director of Information & Quantum Systems Lab, Hewlett-Packard Wolfgang Porod, Frank M. Freiman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame Massimiliano Di Ventra, Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego Rainer Waser, RWTH Aachen University at Research Center Juelich, Germany The event is co-sponsored by UC Merced and UC Berkeley in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Symposium is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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In 1971, Leon O. Chua published a seminal paper on the missing basic circuit element. Leon O. Chua and Sung-Mo Kang published a paper, in 1976, that described a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices and systems. Just recently, Stan Williams and his research team at HP Labs unveiled a two-terminal titanium dioxide nanoscale device in Nature magazine that exhibited memristor characteristics. This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits. Program (Part 3) Pinaki Mazumder, Program Director, National Science Foundation Memristors: An Interstedd Observer's Perspective Wolfgang Porod, Frank M. Freiman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univresity of Notre Dame Memristive Systems: From Spintronics to Amoeba's Learning Massimiliano Di Ventra, Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego Proposals for Memristor Crossbar Design and Applications Blaise Mouttet, Graduate Student, George Mason University The event is co-sponsored by UC Merced and UC Berkeley in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Symposium is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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In 1971, Leon O. Chua published a seminal paper on the missing basic circuit element. Leon O. Chua and Sung-Mo Kang published a paper, in 1976, that described a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices and systems. Just recently, Stan Williams and his research team at HP Labs unveiled a two-terminal titanium dioxide nanoscale device in Nature magazine that exhibited memristor characteristics. This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits. Program (Part 2) Memristors as Synapses in a Neural Computing Architecture Greg Snider, Senior Architect, Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Prospects and Challenges of Redox-based Memristive RRAM Concpets Rainer Waser, RWTH Aachen University at Research Center Juelich, Germany The event is co-sponsored by UC Merced and UC Berkeley in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Symposium is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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In 1971, Leon O. Chua published a seminal paper on the missing basic circuit element. Leon O. Chua and Sung-Mo Kang published a paper, in 1976, that described a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices and systems. Just recently, Stan Williams and his research team at HP Labs unveiled a two-terminal titanium dioxide nanoscale device in Nature magazine that exhibited memristor characteristics. This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits. Program (Part 1) Opening Remarks Steve Kang, Chancellor, UC Merced Pinaki Mazumder, Program Director, National Science Foundation Stuart Russell, Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley Memristors Leon Chua, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley Finding the Missing Memristor Stan Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director of Information & Quantum Systems Lab, Hewlett-Packard Material Implication Using Memristors: An Alternate Form of Boolean Logic Philip Kuekes, Computer Architect, Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories The event is co-sponsored by UC Merced and UC Berkeley in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Symposium is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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"Diplomacy" Jeremy Kinsman, Diplomat-in-Residence, Princeton University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes former Canadian diplomat Jeremy Kinsman. Drawing on his forty year career in the Canadian Foreign Service, including his service as Ambassador to the European Union, the United Kingdom and Russia, Kinsman traces changes in the diplomat's portfolio. He analyzes the implications of emerging centers of power in the global system and the failure of the West to discern Russia's interests and concerns. Kinsman looks at the relationship of Canada to the United States and the consequences of the last eight years of U.S. foreign policy including the challenges of democratization in the wake of the debacle in Iraq. Kinsman offers his impression of political leaders he has observed close-up including Yeltsin and Putin, Blair and Trudeau, and Clinton and Reagan. He also speculates on the implications of the election of Barack Obama. Recorded November 21, 2008 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

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Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties: Preparing for the Great Crew Change" Dr. Donna J. Nelson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma The California Forums for Diversity in Graduate Education, planned by a consortium of public and private colleges and universities from throughout California, have been designed particularly to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and master's candidates who belong to groups that are currently underrepresented in doctoral-level programs. The groups include low-income and first-generation college students and especially African Americans, American Indians, Chicanos/Latinos, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, Asian American women, and Asian American men in the arts, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences. Each California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education will bring together approximately 1,000 pre-selected, high-achieving undergraduate and master's students. The students will explore graduate opportunities and resources by participating in numerous workshops conducted throughout the day. Universities and individual graduate programs offering academic master's and/or Ph.D. degrees are welcome to participate in the recruitment fairs that will take place concurrently with the other planned activities. Note that these events are for all disciplines except MBA programs, medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, veterinary science, and law, all of which have their own recruiting networks. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/forum-for-diversity/recruiters/index.html

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Marios Sophocleous - Senior Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey Educating ourselves to better appreciate our precious water. Water is the lifeblood of California. Without it, the landscape we know today would not exist. Throughout Californias history, water has been a source of food, commerce, energy, and recreation. It makes possible the bountiful Central Valley farms and the vibrant coastal cities. It has inspired countless poets and painters. Californians have simultaneously fought over water, marveled at its beauty, and - through impressive feats of engineering - moved it hundreds of miles. The popular lecture series, the California Colloquium on Water, continues. Scholars of distinction in the fields of natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, law and environmental design will offer monthly lectures. These lectures are designed to increase the understanding and appreciation among students, faculty and the general public of water resources and to contribute to informed decisions about water in California. www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/ccow.html

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"The Rumsfeld Memo and the Betrayal of American Values" Philippe Sands Professor of International Law University College London Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes international lawyer Philippe Sands for a discussion of Bush administration policies regarding international law. Sands analyzes the evolution of international law from the Atlantic Charter to the present. Drawing on research in his two books, "Lawless World," and "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values," Sands discusses the neo-conservative ideology and practice toward international law. He details the role of a cadre of senior lawyers in the Bush administration who disregarded international law and facilitated the implementation of a torture regime at Guantanamo. In tracing the path of the notorious Rumsfeld memo which approved 18 methods of interrogation of detainees, Sands offers a chilling indictment of the practices and processes of the Bush Administration as it waged its war on terror. He concludes that war crimes may have been committed after 911 and that key players in the administration were guilty of violating the Geneva Conventions and the Torture Treaty and are subject to charges not only in the court of world opinion but also in tribunals invoking universal jurisdiction. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

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"Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 911" Edward Alden Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Edward Alden of the Council of Foreign Relations for a discussion of his new book, "The Closing of the American Border." Alden, former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, discusses the Bush administration's response to 911 and the consequences for America's commitment to open borders and leadership of globalization. Pitting "cops" led by Attorney General John Ashcroft against "technocrats" led by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Alden explains the bureaucratic power struggle that ensued. He details how a policy of smart borders and risk management is sacrificed as the bitter debates about immigration policy take center stage. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

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The Mortgage Meltdown, The Economy, and Public Policy - Chairman Ben Bernanke "On the Future of Mortgage Finance in the United States" Chairman Ben Bernanke (via satellite), Federal Reserve Board of Governors

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Cornelia Nixons books include Now You See It and Angels Go Naked, and a book of literary criticism on D.H. Lawrence. She is the winner of two O. Henry Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, a Nelson Algren Award and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. Nixon recently completed a Civil War novel, and is working on both a surfing novel and a memoir. A Berkeley alumna, she is on the faculty at Mills College.

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New poetry from experimental poet, Caroline Bergvall, with graduate poet Nina Pick.

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Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture "Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in Chinas New Age of Private Property" Li Zhang, Chancellor's Fellow & Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Davis This lecture explores how the privatization of home ownership and a rising material culture of consumerism reconfigure the intimate realm of self-worth, love, and marriage in urban China. Through several ethnographic cases, my research shows how owning a private house has gradually become the decisive factor in considering marriage and a focal point of contention in dissolving that relationship. In this context, I suggest that self-worth has become more and more individualized and materialized through the idiom of property possession. After thirty years of economic reform, the socially embedded nature of the self that was once at the heart of a moral economy is being eclipsed by an individual-centered, materialistic determinism nurtured by a market economy. This social reconfiguration however is a gendered process. While the meanings of masculinities have shifted toward ones ability to make money, possess desirable material goods, or gain political power, the construction of self-worth among women tends to focus on the body and physical appearance, which serve as the material foundation for constructing femininities. Discussant: You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley

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Robin Blaser emerged from the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1940s and '50s along with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and later established himself as one of Canada's foremost experimental poets. In addition to numerous works of poetry, criticism, and translation, Blaser has also penned an English and Latin opera libretto entitled The Last Supper in collaboration with Sir Harrison Birtwistle.

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"Global Poverty, Development, and Social Change" Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Laurence R. Simon of Brandeis University for a discussion of the role of non governmental organizations in addressing global poverty. Topics discussed include the conflict between focused aid and national security interests, religion and development, public advocacy and education addressing global poverty, and lessons learned from his three decade career as a practioner working to address problems of global inequality. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

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Panel 3: The Regulatory Frontier Michael Schill, UCLA, Moderator "Three Mortgage Innovations for Enhancing the American Mortgage Market and Promoting Financial Stability" Diana Hancock and Wayne Passmore, Federal Reserve Board of Governors "Regulating the Investment Banks and GSEs After the Subprime Crisis" Dwight Jaffee, UC Berkeley Discussants: Richard Green, USC Richard Roll, UCLA Lawrence White, NYU http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/mortgagemeltdown.htm

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A California Policy Perspective on the Financial Crisis Darrell Steinberg, President Pro Tem.-elect, California State Senate Larry Rosenthal, UC Berkeley, Moderator Panel 2: Demography and Geography of Foreclosures Robert Edelstein, UC Berkeley, Moderator "House Prices, Interest Rates, and the Mortgage Market Meltdown " Chris Mayer, Columbia University "Subprime Mortgages, Foreclosures, and Urban Neighborhoods" Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Discussants: Mark Garmaise, UCLA Walter Torous, UCLA Alexei Tchistyi, UC Berkeley

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Stuart Gabriel, UCLA Michael Schill, UCLA John Quigley, UC Berkeley Panel 1: The Crisis in Finance Markets Karl E. Case, Wellesley College, Moderator "Why are the Cycles in Homes and Consumer Durables So Similar?" Edward Leamer, UCLA "Policies To Deal With the Implosion in the Mortgage Market" Robert Shiller, Yale University Discussants: Brad DeLong, UC Berkeley Robert Hall, Stanford University James Wilcox, UC Berkeley http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/mortgagemeltdown.htm

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Are Government Agencies Up To The Task? Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, Moderator Panelists: Robert Van Order, University of Michigan Susan Wachter, University of Pennsylvania John Weicher, Hudson Institute Susan Woodward, Sand Hill Econometrics http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/mortgagemeltdown.htm

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Welcome and Opening Remarks Stuart Gabriel, UCLA John Quigley, UC Berkeley The Policy Maker's Perspective on the Financial Meltdown and the Economy Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Stuart Gabriel, UCLA, Moderator The Future of the Housing Finance System Nancy Wallace, UC Berkeley, Moderator Panelists: Brad Blackwell, Wells Fargo Bank John Krainer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Paul Leonard, Center for Responsible Lending Paul Jablansky, 400 Capital Management LLC http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/mortgagemeltdown.htm

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