lectures/ideas: 05/04/17

2017-05-04

Gresham College (videos of April 2017)

0:57 What is the advantage to the flowers that are 'orchid-mimics'? - Professor Steve Jones A question from the lecture 'Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: The Hidden Face of Mother Nature' by Professor Steve Jones https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/what-is-the-advantage-to-......

0:42 An interesting fact about female swordtail fish - Professor Steve Jones A question from the lecture 'Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: The Hidden Face of Mother Nature' by Professor Steve Jones https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/an-interesting-fact-about......

2:36 To what extent did the Adventists bring stability in a changing world? - Professor Alec Ryrie A question from the lecture 'America's Advents' by Professor Alec Ryrie https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/to-what-extent-did-the-ad...

3:00 Professor Ryrie's thoughts on self-deception - Professor Alec Ryrie A question from the lecture 'America's Advents' by Professor Alec Ryrie https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/professor-ryries-thoughts...
The transcript and downloadable versions of the...

2:48 Was Miller influenced by the deism of the French Revolution - Professor Alec Ryrie A question from the lecture 'America's Advents' by Professor Alec Ryrie https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/was-miller-influenced-by-...
The transcript and downloadable...

1:32 Why is Sir Walter Scott not in popular culture today? - Dr Juliet Shields A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott invent Scotland?' by Dr Juliet Shields https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/why-is-sir-walter-scott-n...
The transcript and do...

58:12 Expert Witnesses: a Zero-sum Game? - Professor Jo Delahunty QC The use of experts in the family courts can make a significant difference to outcomes. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/expert-witn...
The debate about the use of ex...

47:19 The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Power and Intrigue of Simile - Professor Belinda Jack Frost's line, 'I found a dimpled spider... holding up a moth like a white piece of rigid satin cloth' exploits simile. But how can a moth be like cloth? What does likening one material, the fragile...

53:04 Observing the Dark Ages - Professor Joseph Silk Long before there were stars, there was the stuff that stars are made of. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/observing-t...
This era of the universe is called the dark ages, wh...

55:06 The Environmental Challenges of MegaCities - Professor Carolyn Roberts Faced with escalating population pressure and new construction technologies, western architects are designing cities in the skies, and under the sea. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/t...

53:42 What Really Happened in Y2K? - Professor Martyn Thomas CBE As the year 2000, 'Y2K' - approached, many feared that computer programs storing year values as two-digit figures (such as 99) would cause problems. There is a widespread belief that the millennium...

54:59 Is Humanity Naturally Good? Richard Dawkins's Selfish Gene - Professor Alister McGrath One interesting area of debate concerns human identity and whether we can give a purely scientific account of human nature in terms of its physical, chemical and biological components. Or do we nee...

43:19 What Will Happen When A.I and the Internet Meet The Professions? - Professor Richard Susskind OBE an Two futures are outlined for the professions. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/what-will-h...
Both rest on technol...

1:50 The English image of Scotland prior to Sir Walter Scott's writing - Dr Juliet Shields A question from the lecture 'Did Sir Walter Scott invent Scotland?' by Dr Juliet Shields https://www.gresham.ac.uk/short/the-english-image-of-scot...
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caltech (videos of April 2017)

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1:00:29 How Clean is the Cloud? - A. Wierman - 4/19/2017 “How Clean is the Cloud?” - Adam Wierman, Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Executive Officer for Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Director, Information Science and Technolo...

0:59 Senior Gift Dunk Tank Preview Stay tuned for more on the Dunk Tank Extravaganza and how the Class of 2017 is giving back this year!
Produced in partnership with Caltech Academic Media Technologies and The Caltech Fund. ©2017 C...

7:12 No Borders: Science and Caltech Anyone willing to take the challenge to work, study, or teach at Caltech is welcome here.
Staff, faculty, and students describe immigrating from Iran, Italy, Mexico and Vietnam to join Caltech's ...

0:15 KCWI Arrives at Keck Observatory - January 2017 The Keck Cosmic Web Imager is loaded into Keck Observatory, perched on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The KCWI arrived in January 2017, and achieved first light in April 2017.

1:34:37 Celebration of Life in Honor of Professor John D. Roberts The Caltech community gathered on March 31, 2017, to honor the life and work of Professor John D. Roberts.
View the program: http://www.cce.caltech.edu/content/celebration-life-honor......

42:59 Caltech Social Sciences Open House - A. Rangel - 4/7/17 Social Sciences Open House with Caltech Professor, Antonio Rangel, Bing Professor of Neuroscience, Behavioral Biology, and Economics
Learn more about:
- Social Sciences Open House: http://www.hss....

42:43 Imaging and Remote Sensing of Other Worlds - D. Mawet - 4/5/2017 The discovery of thousands of exoplanets over the past 20 years has taught us that our solar system is just one example among a mind-boggling variety of world architectures. Most of these planetary...

42:51 The Glass Ceiling and The Glass Universe - D. Sobel - 4/4/17 Women found an early, productive place in the activities of the Harvard College Observatory. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, as many as twenty women at a time made fundamental disc...

American Literature to 1865 by Barry Wood (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston 2010年2月16日
ENGL 3350
Title: American Literature to 1865
Professor: Barry Wood
Description: Critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville.

The Native Americans: A Civilization Interrupted 1:24:06
Native American Oral Literature 1:24:36
Spain in America 1:22:55
France and England in America 1:21:21
The Puritan Vision of America 1:23:59
The Puritans: Conformists, Rebels and Tortured Souls 1:16:07
Puritan Literature: Poetry Private and Public 1:22:47
The Tangled Vision: Puritan Wonders, Magic and Witchcraft 1:22:11
The Literature of Cultural Conflict 1:22:53
Benjamin Franklin: The Self-Made American 1:22:08
The Age of Reason: Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine 1:26:12
Voices of the Revolution: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine 1:25:46
The First American Bestsellers: Charlotte Temple and The Coquette 1:26:48
The Early American Romantics: Irving and Cooper 1:26:04
Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Love and Beauty 1:23:06
Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of Mystery and Terror 1:23:06
Emerson and Transcendentalist Religion 1:24:06
Emersons Intellectual Declaration of Independence 1:24:26
Frederick Douglass: The Story of an Escaped Slave 1:24:07
Harriet Ann Jacobs: The Story of a Slave Girl 1:23:46
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Versions of Romance 1:23:06
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Return to Puritanism 1:23:06
The Scarlet Letter: Hawthornes Masterwork 1:23:06
Voices of Dissent: On Abolition and Womens Rights 1:23:06
Thoreaus Life at Walden Pond 1:23:06
Uncle Toms Cabin: An Abolitionist Bestseller 1:23:06
Native American Voices 1:23:07
Centuries of American Song 1:22:36
Walt Whitman's Song of the Soul 1:23:06

Nobel Prize Winners in Literature with Irving Rothman (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston 2009年8月26日
ENGL 3345

Literature of the Restoration & 18th Century by Irving Rothman (U of Houston)

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source: UHouston 2009年12月14日
ENGL 3312
Title: Literature of the Restoration & 18th Century
Professor: Irving Rothman
Description: Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake; the poetic genres; the rise of journalism and the novel; biography and drama; historical and philosophical background.

Harvard GSD (videos of April 2017)

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51:20 Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: “On Ethiopian Jazz”: Teshome Mitiku with Either/Orchestra The Either/Orchestra, a ten-piece group that was founded in 1987 and has recorded ten albums, is regarded as one of Massachusetts’s major contributions to the international music scene. The E/O has...

1:38:50 Conversations on Public Art: Nato Thompson How can public art and design practice remain socially engaged in a moment when images and information proliferate all around us, and cultural production can almost instantaneously be co-opted by p...

1:39:22 Rouse Visiting Artist Lecture: Jeff Koons Internationally recognized artist Jeff Koons is widely known for his iconic sculptures Rabbit (1986) and Balloon Dog (1994–2000), as well as his monumental floral works Puppy (1992) and Split-Rocke...

55:19 Go Hasegawa, “Amplitude in the Experience of Space” “Architectural spaces can take away or awaken abilities and sensations that we humans possess innately. Through the practice I’ve always been conscious of that—how can we expand our abilities and s...

1:29:19 GSD Talks: Mia Lehrer, “Advocacy by Design” As founder and president of Mia Lehrer + Associates (MLA), Mia Lehrer (MLA ’79) leads the studio on a wide range of projects that include urban revitalization developments, urban parks and greenway...

1:27:33 Kathryn Gustafson Kathryn Gustafson brings more than thirty years of distinguished practice to her partnerships in two offices: GGN in Seattle and Gustafson Porter in London. She is known for her diverse range of wo...

5:00 Diversity of backgrounds, diversity of ideas: GSD Student Fellowships 2017 The GSD attracts a diversity of students--both in backgrounds and ideas--to explore, analyze, and confront the global challenges of our modern world. Current students, Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, and fa...

1:31 Harvard GSD Doctor of Design 30th Anniversary Program Since the founding of the DDes program, alumni have been cutting edge leaders in the academy, in industry, and in key government positions, leveraging design research as a mode of inquiry, thinking...

1:56:53 State(s) of Housing Colloquium Collective housing is inseparable from a vision of urbanity, offering not only a lens through which to examine the city but also a mirror to our values as a society. Charged and volatile, it’s a ty...

1:57:53 Newish Media: A Conversation with Lucia Allais and John May CONVERSANTS: Lucia Allais Rendering and ExperienceAssistant Professor of Architecture, Princeton University, Editor Grey Room, member of AggregateANDJohn May Postorthography: An OutlineGSD De...

1:26:08 Open House Lecture: Janet Cardiff, “An Overview of Installations and Walks” Canadian artist Janet Cardiff will discuss various seminal works and her collaborative process with partner George Bures Miller. Since the creation of Dark Pool in 1995, Cardiff and Miller have use...

1:52 What is Career Discovery?

1:45:51 Erik Swyngedouw “Since 2011, a seemingly endless proliferation of urban rebellions, sparked by a variety of conditions and unfolding against the backdrop of very different historical and geographical contexts, has...

1:29:30 Mexico City at a Crossroads: Urban Challenges of the 21st Century – Keynote Address Mexico City’s Mayor Miguel Mancera will discuss current challenges for the nation’s capital city, which was recently named the World Design Capital for 2018 by ICSID. The mayor will share lessons l...

1:41:14 I. M. Pei: A Centennial Celebration The GSD is proud to celebrate the 100th birthday of Ieoh Ming Pei, MArch ’46. Both I. M. and his wife Eileen Pei GSD ’44 studied at the GSD, as did their sons Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, MArch ’72, and...

1:51:18 States of Urbanism A converstation on graphic architecture and plastic politics.Featuring:Neil Denari, Principal of NMDA and Chair of UCLA A.UD Robert Somol, Director of the School of Architecture, University o...

California College of the Arts (videos of April 2017)

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0:31 CCA Fashion Experience 2017 Teaser Discover how the latest up-and-coming fashion designers are pioneering efforts in diversity, sustainability, and innovation in the fashion industry.
CCA's undergraduate Fashion Program is proud t...

1:16:53 Na Min Ra (Michael Ra) Lecture: Materialistics This lecture was recorded November 14, 2016, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts (CCA).
Michael Ra is a cofounding partner of Front. Previously, he...

26:05 Creating Digital Tools for Artists by CCA Animation Faculty Member Warren Trezevant This video was filmed at the Oakland campus of California College of the Arts (CCA) by Alex Zajicek in 2017.
CCA Animation faculty and Maya product manager at Autodesk Warren Trezevant explains th...

3:40:23 CONCEPT 2016, or Let's Take a Look at the Creative Process This lecture was recorded October 15, 2016, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts (CCA).
CONCEPT is the annual fall conference for CCA Graphic Design...

2:53 Meet CCA Alumnus Nigel Sussman (Illustration 2005) Learn about California College of the Arts Illustration alumnus Nigel Sussman's work in the community and the ways in which he gives back to the college.
ABOUT CCA'S ILLUSTRATION PROGRAM
In CCA's...

1:23:25 Manthia Diawara Talk: On David Hammons Recorded March 3, 2017, in Timken Lecture Hall on the San Francisco campus of California College of the Arts (CCA).
Manthia Diawara was born in Mali, West Africa. Diawara was educate

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source: Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2016年7月14日
Interdisciplinary Psychiatry: From basic science to clinical applications
June 23rd 2016

JBC| Computational modeling of Dyslexia-lessons for computational psychiatry-Prof Yonatan Lowenstein 31:11
JBC| Eye tracking and body motion capture as tools for identifying autism - Dr. Ilan Dinstein 34:03
JBC | Closing the loop between computational physiology and mental disorder - Prof. Hagai Bergman 32:02
[private video]
JBC| Interdisciplinary Psychiatry| Panel Discussion - Chair: Dr. Abraham Peled 26:42

Parameterized Morse Theory in Low-Dimensional and Symplectic Topology

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source: LeonhardEuler1 2014年9月11日
Talks from the "Parameterized Morse Theory in Low-Dimensional and Symplectic Topology" workshop held at Banff in March of 2014. The conference website, where the videos can be downloaded, can be found here: http://www.birs.ca/events/2014/5-day-workshops/14w5119/vi...

J. Hyam Rubinstein, Parametrised Morse Theory for 3-manifolds 58:47
Stefan Behrens, Singular Fibrations on 4-manifolds 1:07:59
Christopher Schommer-Pries, From the Cobordism Hypothesis to Higher Morse Theory 1:11:35
Lisa Traynor, An Introduction to Symplectic and Contact Topology and ... 1:06:06
Jesse Johnson, Minsky Models and Morse 2-functions on 3-manifolds 1:02:27
Alexander Zupan, Knots with Compressible Thin Levels 1:02:29
Martin Scharlemann, The Schönflies Conjecture and its Spin-offs 1:05:39
Jonathan Williams, Weak Floer A-infinity Algebras for Smooth 4-manifolds 1:04:36
Katrin Wehrheim, How to Extend 2+1 "Field Theories" to 2+1+1 Dimensions 1:03:12
Jamie Vicary, Computations with Topological Defects 1:11:22
Bruce Bartlett, 3-dimensional Bordism Representations via Generators and Relations 1:10:22
Joshua Sabloff, Families of Legendrian Submanifolds via Generating Families 1:01:16
Yakov Eliashberg, All Manifolds are Contact Except Those Which are Obviously Not 1:04:23
M. Brad Henry, A Combinatorial Differential Graded Algebra for Legendrian Knots... 1:05:41
Ryan Budney, Triangulating 4-manifolds and a Table of Knots in Homotopy 4-spheres 1:00:39

Gauge Theory + Contact and Symplectic Topology in 3D and 4D

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source: LeonhardEuler1 2014年8月20日
Talks from the "Interactions of Gauge Theory with Contact and Symplectic Topology in Dimensions 3 and 4" workshop held at Banff in March of 2013. The conference website, where the videos can be downloaded, can be found here: http://www.birs.ca/events/2013/5-day-workshops/13w5037/vi...
Additionally, there is one talk (by Katrin Wehrheim) from March of 2011 with the same workshop title. The video for this talk can be found here: http://www.birs.ca/events/2011/5-day-workshops/11w5085/vi...

Paolo Lisca, Stein Fillable Contact 3-manifolds and Positive Open Books of Genus One 55:17
Cagatay Kutluhan, Holonomy Filtration and Knots 56:27
Refik Inanc Baykur, Topological Complexity of Symplectic 4-manifolds and Stein Fillings 48:38
Matthew Hedden: Taut Foliations, Left-orderability, and L-spaces 1:00:10
Ina Petkova, An Absolute Z/2 Grading on Bordered Floer Homology 52:03
Vincent Colin, An Extension of Heegaard Floer Homology to Higher Dimensions 58:27
Andriy Haydys, Fukaya-Seidel Category and Gauge Theory 56:20
Lenny Ng, Topological Strings and Knot Contact Homology I 47:55
Tobias Ekholm, Topological Strings and Knot Contact Homology II 47:50
Jonathan Bloom, A Bordered Monopole Floer Theory I 49:40
John Baldwin, A Bordered Monopole Floer Theory II 52:28
David Gay, Morse 2-functions on and Trisections of 4-manifolds 56:19
Michael Hutchings, Embedded Contact Homology as a (Symplectic) Field Theory 57:29
Olga Plamenevskaya, Looking for Flexibility in Higher-dimensional Contact Manifolds 57:31
Katrin Wehrheim, How to Construct 2+1+1 Topological Field Theories via the Symplectic Category 1:04:28
Stefano Vidussi, On the Topology of SCY 4-manifolds 57:00
Daniel Ruberman, Embeddings of Non Orientable Surfaces in M^3xI 51:34
Thomas Mark, Floer Homology and the Fractional Dehn Twist Coefficient 1:01:55
Nikolai Saveliev, Index Theory of the deRham Complex on Manifolds with Periodic Ends 56:25
Chris Herald, The Pillowcase and Perturbations of Traceless Representations of Knot Groups 55:16
Liam Watson, Heegaard Floer Homology Solid Tori 56:33
Eric Harper, Instanton Homology of Corks Wn 47:50
Katrin Wehrheim, Quilted Floer Homology - Transversality and Applications 1:02:46

Syzygies in Algebraic Geometry (with an exploration of a connection with string theory)

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source: LeonhardEuler1 2014年9月9日
Talks from the "Syzygies in Algebraic Geometry (with an exploration of a connection with string theory)" workshop held at Banff in August of 2012. The conference website, where the videos can be downloaded, can be found here: http://www.birs.ca/events/2012/5-day-workshops/12w5117/vi...

Aldo Conca, Koszul Algebras and their Syzygies 1:03:35
Steven Dale Cutkosky, Multiplicities Associated to Graded Families of Ideals 59:33
Ian Shipman, Orlov's Theorem 1:14:43
Andrei Caldararu, Curved Algebras 1:21:19
David Berenstein, From Quivers and Superpotentials to Algebras and Representation Theory 1:06:56
Paul Aspinwall, The Topological B-model and Superpotentials 1:07:54
Eric Sharpe, Boundary Terms in 2D Theories and Matrix Factorization 1:07:01
David Morrison, D-brane Algebras 1:11:46
David Berenstein, Conjectures About Superpotential Algebras 1:24:44
Sheldon Katz, Computation of Superpotentials for D-branes 1:02:07
Paul Aspinwall, Matrix Factorization on the Quintic 1:07:21
David Morrison, Matrix Factorizations in Physics (Summary Talk) 1:03:47
Robert Lazarsfeld, Asymptotic Syzygies of Algebraic Varieties 1:08:54
Giorgio Ottaviani, On the Syzygies of Veronese Embeddings 1:03:45
Frank-Olaf Schreyer, Syzygies of Torsion Bundles and the Geometry of the Level l Modular Variety 1:03:47
Marian Aprodu, Vector Bundles and Syzygies 37:49

Geometric Structures on Manifolds

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source: LeonhardEuler1 2014年9月7日
Talks from the "Geometric Structures on Manifolds" workshop held at Banff in April of 2012. The conference website, where the videos can be downloaded, can be found here: http://www.birs.ca/events/2012/5-day-workshops/12w5121/vi...

Robert Bryant, An Introduction to G2 and Spin(7) Manifolds 50:40
Andras Stipsicz, Knots in Lattice Homology 46:36
Ludmil Katzarkov, From Higgs Bundles to Stability Conditions 53:18
Claude LeBrun, Four Manifolds, Einstein Metrics, and Differential Topology 53:41
Tim Perutz, Arithmetic Aspects of Homological Mirror Symmetry 55:29
Matthew Hedden, Recent Progress on Topologically Slice Knots 49:43
Dmitry Alekseevski, Compact Cohomogeneity One Kähler and Kähler-Einstein Manifolds 41:04
Jonathan Hillman, The Homotopy Types of Geometric 4-manifolds 40:52
Thomas Walpuski, A Conjectural G2 Casson Invariant 53:52
Mihaela Pilca, Lowest Eigenvalue of the Dirac Operator on Kähler Manifolds and Special Holonomy 47:15
Weimin Chen, On Seifert Fibered 4-manifolds 48:43
Andrei Teleman, Gauge Theoretical Approach in the Classification of Class VII Surfaces 51:03
Timothy Nguyen, Quantum Chern-Simons Theory and Perturbative Renormalization 49:47
Liviu Nicolaescu, Complexity of Random Smooth Functions on Compact Manifolds 34:54
Yanki Lekili, Floer Theoretically Essential Tori in Rational Blowdown 51:13
Scott Baldridge, Coisotropic Luttinger Surgery on Symplectic 6-manifolds 47:33
Andrew Swann, Multi-moment Maps and Applications to Special Holonomy 50:42
Gil Cavalcanti, SKT Geometry 44:33
Katrin Wehrheim, How to Construct 4-manifold Invariants via the Symplectic Category 54:31

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