UC Santa Barbara (Audio)

Go behind the scenes with cameraman/editor, Mark Romanov, who specializes in hard-to-get shots which is apparent in his work on Rick Rosenthal's documentary, The Dark Side of the Ocean.

Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30029]

Scott Dettmer is a founding partner of the law firm, Gundersen Dettmer where he focuses on the representation of fast-growing private and public companies in the technology and life science industries. He also represents a wide range of venture and private equity funds in their investment transactions. Series: "Technology Management Program" [Business] [Show ID: 30338]

UCSB Script to Screen hosts director Jay Roach (Austin Powers trilogy) and screenwriter John McNamara for a conversations about Trumbo, a historical piece about a blacklisted screen writer and the screen writing process. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30277]

Gerd Gigerenzer, director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, wants us all to be more “risk savvy.” He explores different kinds of risks and the ways we are misled and manipulated by politicians, financial advisors, doctors and others who purport to be looking out for us. Series: "SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind" [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 30163]

Oscar-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, veteran writer/producer, whose credits include Six Feet Under and True Blood, joins host Matt Ryan to discuss the production and legacy of “American Beauty.” Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30159]

Gerd Gigerenzer discusses how the people within the health care system should work together to receive the outcomes they desire. Series: "SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28732]

Gerd Gigerenzer defines what heuristics are and how they develop the way a person thinks. Gigernezer, currently a distinguished fellow at SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/events/homo-heuristicus-rationality-mortals#sthash.0qUqR6BJ.dpuf Series: "SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 28733]

In his book “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became A Safe Haven For Hitler’s Men,” Eric Lichtblau investigates a trove of newly discovered documents which bring to light an unknown era post WWII. He discusses how Nazis were protected by the U.S. government to become spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29505]

UCSB’s Joseph Polchinski speaks about the search for a unified theory of the laws of physics, and the difficulty of reconciling two of the main pieces: quantum mechanics, which governs the very small, and general relativity, which governs the very large. A professor of physics and a permanent member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Polchinski was named UC Santa Barbara’s 2014 Faculty Research Lecturer. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30118]

UCSB’s Script to Screen visits Comic Con 2015 in San Diego. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30030]