Staff Appreciation Week: Faculty Sharing with Staff
One of the joys of working at Berkeley is exposure to the great minds on campus. Two of our professors, Dacher Keltner and Alexei V. Filippenko, will be sharing lectures with staff on their latest findings. The lectures will take place on Monday, June 10 and Tuesday, June 11. You are invited to join these lectures live, or via Ustream if you are not available in person. The details are as follows:
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Schedule for Faculty Sharing With Staff |
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| Date | Time | Presentation | Location |
| Monday, June 10th | 3:00 - 4:00pm |
"Survival of the Kindest: A Darwinian Tale of How We Are Born to Be Good," by Professor Dacher Keltner
Description: The latest science of how we have evolved to be a compassionate and cooperative species. This science has uncovered cooperative regions of the brain, languages of cooperation like touch, and new truths to old wisdom, for example that it feels good to be give. |
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| Tuesday, June 11th | 2:00 - 3:00pm |
"The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe," by Professor Alexei V. Filippenko
Description: In 1998, observations revealed that the expansion rate of the Universe is speeding up with time, rather than slowing down due to gravity as expected. This discovery was honored with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics to the team leaders. The origin of the repulsive "dark energy" creating the accelerating expansion may be the biggest unsolved mystery in physics. Watch the archived presentation |
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