THE HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS AT CSI BERKELEY

2007 ◽  
pp. 353-379
Author(s):  
E.L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Methods ◽  
Earthquake Engineering ◽  
Computer Programs ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

History of geological investigations of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Bartow
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
University Of California ◽  
General Description ◽  
Mountain Building ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Over the past 150 years, Mount Diablo has served as a window into the evolving understanding of California geology. In the 1800s, geologists mapped this easily accessible peak located less than 100 km (62 miles) from the rapidly growing city of San Francisco and the geology departments at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. Later, the mountain served as a focal point for investigating San Francisco Bay area tectonics. The structural interpretation of the up-thrusting mechanisms has evolved from a simple compressional system involving a few local faults to a more complex multifault and multiphase mountain-building theory. The stratigraphic interpretation and understanding have been advanced from a general description of the lithologies and fossils to a detailed description using sequence stratigraphy to define paleogeographic settings and depositional regimes.

scholarly journals The University of California Ten Meter Telescope Project: Recent Developments

1984 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 755-765
Author(s):  
Jerry E. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Primary Mirror ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Considerable Detail

The University of California has been actively designing a ten meter telescope (TMT) for optical and infrared groundbased astronomical observations since 1977. The project, now developed in considerable detail, is described in a series of Ten Meter Telescope Reports, technical notes, and publications (see, for example, Nelson 1980,1981,1982). In order to achieve an acceptable cost for the project, the design departs substantially from conventional telescope designs. Recognizing that the cost is roughly proportional to the weight of the structure and to the enclosed volume, we have made the reduction of weight and size a high priority goal of the design. To achieve these objectives a light-weight segmented primary mirror was designed. The parabolic primary is a mosaic of 36 hexagonal segments. In addition, the primary focal ratio is f/1.75, thus resulting in a short telescope tube; this allows a very compact dome.

On Disciplinary Finitude

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ◽  
Speed Limits ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The University

The year 2008 was one of fruitful disjunctions. I spent the fall teaching at Stanford but commuting to the University of California, Los Angeles, to cochair the inaugural Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities. During the same period, I was curating—at the Canadian Center for Architecture, in Montreal—an exhibition devised to mark the centenary of the publication of “The Founding Manifesto of Futurism,” by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Whereas other centennial shows (at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, and at the Palazzo Reale, in Milan) sought to celebrate the accomplishments and legacies of Marinetti's avant-garde, the Canadian exhibition, Speed Limits, was critical and combative in spirit, more properly futurist (though thematically antifuturist). It probed the frayed edges of futurism's narrative of modernity as the era of speed to reflect on the social, environmental, and cultural costs. An exhibition about limits, it looked backward over the architectural history of the twentieth century to look forward beyond the era of automobility.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-118
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Journal Editorial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Managerial Economics ◽  
Economics Journals ◽  
The University

Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University reviews “Secrets of Economics Editors”, by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-four papers, some originally published in the American Economist, present reflections on the practices and experiences of past and present editors of economics journals. Papers focus on economic theory and finance; the history of economics; microeconomics and industrial organization; microeconomics; the methodology of economics; managerial economics; money and banking; urban economics; the economics of public choice; the economics of sports; economic development; the economics of education; general economics; and the journal editorial cycle and practices. Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Ramrattan is Instructor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.”

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