UC Berkeley Events Calendar

<< April 2017 >>

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Animal Discovery Room at the Lawrence Hall of Science

Critter Corner

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Perennial Garden Design

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Monday, April 3, 2017

Ten Years of Global Metropolitan Studies at Berkeley

Mongolian Archaeology: New Discoveries, New Concerns

9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor: "Direct and Indirect Consequences of a Welfare Reform on Individuals and their Families"

12-1:30 p.m.

Islamic Texts Circle: Alcohol

12-1:30 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

Innovations in Hiring Practices

12:15-1:30 p.m.

Differential Geometry Seminar

1:10-2 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: "Bombs, Broadcasts and Betrayal at the Home Front: Determinants of Treason in Germany During World War II"

2-3:30 p.m.

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.Canceled

PF student presentation:

2-4 p.m.

Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar

2:30-5:10 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.

Irad Ben-Gal - Smart City Modeling of Personal Mobility Behavioral Patterns

3:30-5 p.m.

Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture: “Molecular Machines that Build Membranes”

4-5 p.m.

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4-5 p.m.

Cynthia A. Chan Memorial Lecture: Molecular Machines that Build Membranes

4-5 p.m.

Software-Hardware Systems for the Internet of Things

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 208, Microeconomics Theory: "Discounting, Diversity and Investment"

4-6 p.m.

Analysis and PDE Seminar

4:10-5 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Ten Years of Global Metropolitan Studies at Berkeley

Two-Year Requirement Workshop

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Free radical mediated C-C bond formation in cofactor and natural product biosynthesis

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Nonclassical antigen presentation and T cell recognition

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

UCMP Fossil Coffee

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Large Deviations of Factor Models with Regularly-Varying Tails: Asymptotics and Efficient Estimation

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

BSAC Technology Seminar - Designing Functional Organic Nanomaterials for Advanced Energy Technologies

12-1 p.m.

Development Lunch:"Health and Politics"

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Who Fears Violence in African Elections?

12:30-2 p.m.

Emily E. Reid

1-2 p.m.

Webinar: GLACIER Tax Prep Demo and Tips

3-4 p.m.

3-Manifold Seminar

3:40-5 p.m.

Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES)

3:40-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

3:45-4:45 p.m.

Containers with Docker

4-5:30 p.m.

What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City

4-5:30 p.m.

EndNote: Citation and Document Manager

4-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

5-6 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Institute of Industrial Engineers IEOR Alumni Career Panel

5:30-7 p.m.

Sustain U: Green Up Your Life

6:30-8 p.m.

Stop THAAD in Korea – Launch of National Tour

7-8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Resilience and Renewal (BEUHS016)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

2017 Bay Area WASH symposium

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories

9:30-11:30 a.m.

2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series: Climate Change and Health with Kent Pinkerton, PhD

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Plant and Microbial Biology Micro Seminar: "The ancestral human microbiome: the evolution and ecology of our microbial self"

12-1 p.m.

IRLE Spring Seminar: The Dynamics of Household Economic Security Around A Birth

12-1:30 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Rauri Bowie (seminar title TBA)

12-1 p.m.

Romance outside Europe

12-1:30 p.m.

Sacred Founders

12-1 p.m.

BioE Seminar: “Probing the biophysical regulation of de novo tumor microenvironment”

12-1 p.m.

Science of Synthesis seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

Deception and Trust in a Post-Truth World

12:10-1:15 p.m.Canceled

Marriage, birth timing, poverty and health

12:10-1:10 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2:10-3 p.m.

Applied Mathematics Seminar

3:30-4:30 p.m.

ERG Colloquium: Nate Aden

4-5:30 p.m.

Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat: The Science of A Diverse Community

4-5:30 p.m.

The role of apolipoprotein AIV in glucose homeostasis

4-5 p.m.

On Extended Admissible Procedures and their Nonstandard Bayes Risk

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation"

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4:10-5 p.m.

SEEDJAM Tech Expo 2017

5-9 p.m.

Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

5:30-9 p.m.

Intro to California Taxes

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

RAPDP - Intermediate - FM5 HR for the RA

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Commercial Development Site Design and Traffic Impact Analysis

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Raising Community Voices: The power of Storytelling in Public Health

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ESPM 2017 Seminar Series - Joan Celeste Dudney

12-1 p.m.

IB Seminar: Plant-pollinator interactions and movement in the context of global change

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Swarm - Terraswarm Seminar: Anca Dragan

12:30-2 p.m.

Derived Algebraic Geometry Seminar

1-2 p.m.Canceled

Breastfeeding Your Baby/Returning to Work or School (BEUHS602)

1-4:15 p.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor: "Episode IV: A New Hope"

2-3:30 p.m.

Efficient Methods and Hardware for Deep Learning

4-5 p.m.

Global Health Inequalities, Justice and Governance Talk by Jen Ruger

4-6 p.m.

How It Slips Away/We Still Here: A Blues Geography of Black Portland

4-5:30 p.m.

Neuroscience Student Seminar Series

4-5 p.m.

Targeting Brain Oscillations: Probing Function and Treating Disease?

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 242, Econometrics: Estimation and Inference on the Variance Components of a Two-way Fixed Effects Model

4-5 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: “Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Political Risk: Measurment and Efforts"

4:10-6 p.m.

Nicholas de Monchaux: Local Code

5 p.m.

Political Poster Draw Club

5-7 p.m.

Pitzer Center Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

5-6 p.m.

Applied Algebra Seminar

5:15-6:15 p.m.

Friday, April 7, 2017

Israeli Artists in Conversation with Israel

8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Future of Social Ventures Conference and GSVC Global Finals

8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

The Future of Higher Education: Creating Opportunity, Assessing Value

9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Commercial Development Site Design and Traffic Impact Analysis

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Counterfactual thinking and comparative similarity

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Environmental and Sustainability Career Expo

12-3 p.m.

Labor Lunch Seminar: "Compensation inequality within the firm: A field study of a Multinational"

12-1 p.m.

ARE Seminar: On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)

12:10-1 p.m.

Organosilicon Compounds for Salt-free Reduction of Metal Compounds, Generating Catalytically Active Species

1-2 p.m.

Precision Total Station Mapping

1-5 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

1-2 p.m.

Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar

2-3 p.m.

On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan

2 p.m.

Biomimetic Engineering of Squid Sucker Ring Teeth Proteins: From Biology to Technology

2-3 p.m.

Student Probability/PDE Seminar

2:10-3:30 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Marco Stroppa

3 p.m.

Environmental Engineering Seminar

3-4 p.m.

MENA Salon

3-4 p.m.

The Bishan Project: 2010-2016

4-6 p.m.

Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Takács Quartet Colloquium

4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 8, 2017

California Slavic Colloquium

New Directions in Armenian Ottoman Studies

9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan

9:45 a.m.

Local Color: A Watercolor Workshop with Mimi Robinson

10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Critter Corner

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Looking at Okinawa: Race, Gender, Nation

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

IMPACT Bay Area LGBTQ+ Self Defense Class

3-6 p.m.

Monday, April 10, 2017

Structure vs. Randomness

Archivophilia: A Symposium

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Getting an Archaeology Article Published

12-3 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

Seminar 231, Public Finance: “Intergenerational mobility and preferences for redistribution”

2-3:30 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men

2-3:30 p.m.

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.

Mariana Olvera-Cravioto - Directed Complex Networks And Ranking Algorithms

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Making sense of intrinsically disordered proteins

4-5 p.m.

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 208, Microeconomics Theory: "Market Power and Welfare in Asymmetric Divisible Good Auctions"

4-6 p.m.

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4-5 p.m.

Adding Study Abroad to Your Resume Workshop

4-5 p.m.

The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: What are the Headwaters of Formal Savings? Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Analysis and PDE Seminar

4:10-5 p.m.

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Structure vs. Randomness

Using Isotopes to Reconstruct the Past

9-9:30 a.m.

Simons Institute Workshop

9:05 a.m.-1:05 p.m.

Undergrads and DH: Collaborations with the Library

9:30-11 a.m.

Local Color: A Watercolor Workshop with Mimi Robinson

10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Student Hosted Colloquium

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Minimum Conditional Expected Drawdown Portfolios

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

UCMP Fossil Coffee

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

EndNote Essentials:

12-1 p.m.

The Berkeley Network Webinar Series

12-1 p.m.

BSAC Technology Seminar - Dynamic Characterization of MEMS Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry

12-1 p.m.

Development Lunch:"Migration: A Missing Link Between Weather and Violence?"

12:30-1:30 p.m.

The Imperative for Slowing Population Growth in the Sahel

12:30-2 p.m.

Information or Compensation: The Impacts of Financial Incentives and IT on Physician Productivity

12:40-2 p.m.

Resilience and Interdependencies Of Civil Infrastructures During Emergencies

1-2 p.m.

New Technologies and Archaeology

2-5 p.m.

Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquia

3:30-5 p.m.

Chiron Lecture

3:30-4:30 p.m.

3-Manifold Seminar

3:40-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry through Macaulay2

3:45-4:30 p.m.

Design Field Notes: Tyler Mincey and Jorge Fino

4-5 p.m.

The Lasso: 22 years later

4-5 p.m.

Charge Transfer Dynamics, Excited State Energetics, and Organic Photovoltaics

4-5 p.m.

Full Duplex Wireless: From Impossibility to Practice

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "An Empirical Framework for Sequential Assignment: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys"

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry through Macaulay2

4:30-5:30 p.m.

When Police Kill, a book talk with Prof. Zimring

5:10-6 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Sustain U: Green Up Your Life

6:30-8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Structure vs. Randomness

Funding and Programming Transportation Projects in California

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

BioE Seminar: “Developing new microfluidic technologies for high-throughput biophysical measurements of molecular interactions”

12-1 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: José Javier Cuervo, “The function of red coloration in the spiny-footed lizard”

12-1 p.m.

Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Probing Hidden Genetics in Dynamic Signaling Networks"

12-1 p.m.

IRLE Spring Seminar: The Changing World of Work, Societal Linkages, and Political Parties in Latin America

12-1:30 p.m.

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

12-1 p.m.

Advanced PubMed

12-1 p.m.

Cook Well Berkeley Healthy Cooking Series: Spiralize This! Healthy Noodle Alternatives (BEUHS641)

12:10-1 p.m.

Supporting Students From China at UC Berkeley

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2:10-3 p.m.

Kingman-type description of exchangeable hierarchies

3:10-4 p.m.

Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America.

3:30-5 p.m.

Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America.

3:30-5 p.m.

Applied Math Seminar

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Chiron Lecture

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Cover Girls: The Evolution of the Image of Female Stars in Chinese Movie Magazines from the 1920s to the Early Years of the People's Republic

4-6 p.m.

ERG Colloquium: Giorgos Kallis

4-5:30 p.m.

From Bench to Bedside with Selective Thyroid Hormone Receptor Agonists

4-5 p.m.

Toward Real-Space Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Polymers/Engineering the Shell Proteins of a Bacterial Microcompartment to Control Small Molecule Transport

4-6 p.m.

IB Finishing Talk: Tangling with herbivores is a knotty problem: The biomechanics of kelp-herbivore interactions on wave-swept shores

4-5 p.m.

Does Poverty Lower Productivity? Evidence on the Cognitive Effects of Financial Constraints

4-5:30 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4:10-5 p.m.

Project Pengyou U.S.-China Career Panel

7-9 p.m.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Structure vs. Randomness

Funding and Programming Transportation Projects in California

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

What Comes After the Critique of Secularism?

8 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

RAPDP - Intermediate - FM6 Closeouts

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Prospective Adjunct Seminar: Veronica Miller PhD

10-11:30 a.m.

Special Seminar in Arithmetic Geometry

11:10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Writing Specific Aims

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

ESPM 2017 Seminar Series - Jodi Axelson

12-1 p.m.

Research Colloquium: Tina Sacks

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Saving for Your Child’s Education(BEUHS362)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Julius Thomas Hansen Lecture: The biology of flight or fight: How large, carnivorous mammals move out of harm’s way

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor: "Productivity Shocks, Long-Term Contracts and Earnings Dynamics"

2-3:30 p.m.

Student Listening Session with Farmworker Women

3-4 p.m.

Cinema Beyond Melodrama: Lee Chang-dong and Divine Justice

4 p.m.

Nature's gift: How microbial protein structure-function discoveries illuminate the circuitry of adaptive and maladaptive behavior

4-5 p.m.

Braiding Knowledge: Opportunities and Perils of Community-Based Research and Activist Scholarship with Indigenous Communities

4-5:30 p.m.

Seminar 242, Econometrics: Reading Group

4-5 p.m.

Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: “State building in the city: The effects of public security and services on crime, violence and state legitimacy in Bogotá"

4:10-6 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

California Farmworkers' Rights: What Can Be Done in the Age of Trump?

5-7 p.m.

Demystifying Research in Humanities/Social Sciences

5:30-7 p.m.

Crafter-Dark

8-10 p.m.

Friday, April 14, 2017

Structure vs. Randomness

Berkeley Law Sports and Society Conference

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

9th Annual Sociological Research Symposium

9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Offense! The Public Life of Injury in South Asia

9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Logic and Literary Form Conference

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Insights into Industry

9:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

TRANSFER INFORMATION SESSION

10-11:45 a.m.

Cognition Colloquium

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

How to Make a Chemo Kit Workshop

12-12:45 p.m.

Labor Lunch Seminar: "Firm Behavior and Payroll Taxes: Evidence from a Young Workers Tax Cut in Sweden"

12-1 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

Viewshed and Cost Distance Analysis in ArcGIS

1-3 p.m.

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

1-2 p.m.

The Quest for a Voice: Revisiting Asia’s Democratic Revolt

2-6 p.m.

Exploring the Interfaces Between Silicon and Soft Materials

2-3 p.m.

Rubber vs. Silly Putty: Extracellular matrix viscoelasticity and its impact on cells

2-4 p.m.

Environmental Engineering Seminar

3-4 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Nick Virzi, Andrew Watts

3 p.m.

MENA Salon

3-4 p.m.

Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS): a toolkit supporting humanities research

3:10-5 p.m.

RTGC Seminar

4-5:30 p.m.

Earl L. Muetterties Memorial Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Music Studies Colloquia: Thomas Porcello (Vassar)

4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium hosted by mcbUSA and Align

Offense! The Public Life of Injury in South Asia

9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Naturally Dyed Eggs: Morning Session

10-11 a.m.

Critter Corner

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Naturally Dyed Eggs: Afternoon Session

12-1 p.m.

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Monday, April 17, 2017

The Results Curve

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Reflecting on Practice Coaching Workshop

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Advanced Simulation Methodologies for Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment

12-1 p.m.

Fast Perception of Binocular Disparity

12-1:30 p.m.

New Oral History Research Series: ‘Attitudes Evolve’: Narrative as a Strategy for Social Change in the Freedom to Marry Movement

12-1:15 p.m.

Data-Driven Personalized Therapy for Mood and Anxiety by Aaron Fisher Ph.D.

12-1 p.m.

IRLE Spring Seminar: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the Golden Era of Upward Mobility

12-1:30 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

1:30-2:30 p.m.

EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories

1:30-3:30 p.m.

Assignment Design for Social Justice Education

2-3:30 p.m.

Seminar 231, Public Finance: "Hanging off a cliff: fiscal consolidations and default risk"

2-3:30 p.m.

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: Pollution and Maternal Mortality: Evidence from the London Fog

2-3:30 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.

Burak Kazaz - Wine analytics: Fine wine pricing and selection under weather and market uncertainty

3:30-5 p.m.

BLISS Seminar: Cover's Open Problem -- "Capacity of the Relay Channel"

4-5 p.m.

Hidden Hearing Loss: Synaptopathy in noise-induced and age related cochlear damage

4 p.m.

IB Seminar: Morphological and Kinematic Evolution of Cichlid Jaws

4-5 p.m.

Understanding Taiwanese History by Reading LGBT Literature

4-6 p.m.

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4-5 p.m.

Prospective Adjunct Seminar: Jaspal Sandhu PhD

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 208, Microeconomics Theory: "Type-Compatible Equilibria in Signalling Games"

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Analysis and PDE Seminar

4:10-5 p.m.

Panel discussion - A Tomb for Khun Srun

4:30-5:45 p.m.

Organizer’s Toolkit

5:30-8:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Reflecting on Practice Coaching Workshop

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Bus Rapid Transit: Planning, Design, and Operations

9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

UCMP Fossil Coffee

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Systematic Long/Short Factor Portfolios

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

BiD Seminar: Connecting through Play: Tech to Augment In-Person Interaction

12-1 p.m.

Forestry Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

Development Lunch:"Epidemics and Conflict : Evidence from the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa"

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Rhetorical Analysis in the Scholia on Euripides’ Orestes

12:30-2:30 p.m.

“Another Typical African Family”: Navigating Relational Obligations in Accra, Ghana

12:30-2 p.m.

Cyber Espionage and Civil Society: A Silent Epidemic

1-2 p.m.

Digital Resources for Blackfoot Language Documentation and Revitalization

2-3:30 p.m.

One Belt, One Road: Remaking Eurasia?

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquia

3:30-5 p.m.

3-Manifold Seminar

3:40-5 p.m.

Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES)

3:40-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry through Macaulay2

4-4:30 p.m.

Design Field Notes: Dara Douraghi

4-5 p.m.

From water clusters to homogeneous catalysis

4-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry through Macaulay2

4:40-5:30 p.m.

Be An Ally To Immigrant Students, Colleagues and Families

5-7 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Sustain U: Green Up Your Life

6:30-8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Traffic Signal Operations: Fundamental Concepts

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Multicultural Community Center Research Symposium

9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Reflecting on Practice Coaching Workshop

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Hardness of approximation between P and NP

10-11 a.m.

Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Jim McGuire “Flying Lizard Phylogenomics and the Biogeography of Sulawesi"

12-1 p.m.

IRLE Spring Seminar: Absence, Substitutability, and Productivity: Evidence From Teachers

12-1:30 p.m.

BioE Seminar: “Epigenetics and Evolution in the Age of Synthetic Biology”

12-1 p.m.

Tenancy, Marriage, and the Boll Weevil Infestation, 1892-1930

12:10-1:10 p.m.

Habits: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (BEUHS052)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Power Analysis and Meta-Analysis are Falsely Reassuring Solutions for Concerns about Statistical Power

12:10-1:15 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2:10-3 p.m.

Data-Driven Methods for Sparse Network Estimation

3-4 p.m.

Insights for Relationships and Health from Latino and East Asian Cultures

3-4:30 p.m.

Mixing of the mean-field, directed Potts model

3:10-4 p.m.

Race and Place in the Empire City: New York, New York

3:30-5 p.m.

Applied Mathematics Seminar

3:30-4:30 p.m.

UC Berkeley Foodscape Map Launch

3:30-5:30 p.m.

Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Control Cell Fate

4-5 p.m.

Composite Membranes and Metal-Organic Framework Adsorbents for Industrial Gas Separations/Understanding the Dynamics of Complex Fluids using Microfluidics: Suspensions and Wormlike Micellar Solutions

4-6 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4:10-5 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Dissertation Talk: Scene Reconstruction and View Synthesis Using Light Field Cameras

Second Annual IES and Social Science Matrix Conference

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

RAPDP - Intermediate - FM7 Outgoing Sub-awards

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Bus Rapid Transit: Planning, Design, and Operations

9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

ESPM Distinguished Student Lecture - Katherine Seto

12-1 p.m.

Laptop and Mobile Ergonomics (BEUHS409)

12-1 p.m.

Dementia: Effective Communication Strategies (BEUHS169)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

BLISS Seminar: Letting Go of Network Neutrality

1-2 p.m.

Managing Conflict Across Cultures

1:30-4:30 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor: "City density and matching"

2-3:30 p.m.

Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability's Annual Summit

3-4:30 p.m.

History, Utopia, and Nothingness: Rethinking Chaadaev

3-4:30 p.m.

Seminar 242, Econometrics: TBA

4-5 p.m.

The Body and Medieval Piety

4-6 p.m.Canceled

Lensing and delensing the cosmic microwave background

4-5 p.m.

Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: “Drivers of Fragmented Production: Evidence from the 19th Century"

4:10-6 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

Applied Algebra Seminar

5:15-6:15 p.m.

Friday, April 21, 2017

Islamophobia and the End of Liberalism?

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

20th Annual Travers Conference on Ethics and Accountability in Government

9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Chinese Humanities

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Anxious Democracy

9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Patagonia Case Competition

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

10-11 a.m.

Objectivity and Trained Judgment: Toward an ethnography of experimental psychology

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Special Seminar: Molybdenum metabolism in plants, humans and fungi: Research in autotrophs as blueprint for successful patient therapy

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Thinking about Utopia - Religious and Secular: Five interventions

11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Marketing Yourself for Your Next Job: Resume Writing (BECAR301)

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Labor Lunch Seminar: "Fall Forward or Spring Back? Evaluating Student Outcomes of UC Berkeley's Fall Program for Freshmen"

12-1 p.m.

Get Fit in 7 Minutes (BEUHS652)

12:10-1 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Modeling of Next-Generation Logic Devices

2-4 p.m.

Toward a Quantitative Knob for Controlling the Synthesis of Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals

2-3 p.m.

Student Probability/PDE Seminar

2:10-3:30 p.m.

MENA Salon

3-4 p.m.

Cal Alumni Symposium

3-4 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Marco Fusi

3 p.m.

Mapping and Visualization of Cultural Data: Native California, Mosques in China, Maritime Buddhism

3:10-5 p.m.

RTGC Seminar

4-5:30 p.m.

Dalton Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

4-5 p.m.

Representation theory and mathematical physics seminar

4-5 p.m.

Music Studies Colloquium: Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago), "There Is No Such Thing As The Composer's Voice"

4:30 p.m.

Seeing Like the Nation

5 p.m.

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Islamophobia and the End of Liberalism?

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Chinese Humanities

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Science Talk at Cal

9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Science Talk at Cal Conference

9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Drop-In Maker Workshop at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology

10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cal Day with TDPS

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

California and the Climate Fight

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Critter Corner

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Cal Day at Alumni House: Why Cal? The Alumni Perspective

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Hands-on Animal Origami at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Presents: Reptile Dissection

12-1 p.m.

Cal Day At Alumni House: More students, less funding- Supporting public higher education

1-2 p.m.

DNA Up-Close at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology! A Hands-on Demonstration

1-2 p.m.

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Islamophobia and the End of Liberalism?

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Exploration of Forms Workshop

1-3 p.m.

Monday, April 24, 2017

CARA Anniversary Symposium

Charles-Albert Lehalle - Closing The Loop of Optimal Trading: a Mean Field Game of Controls

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

11:10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Dimensional Reduction and Hyper Reduction of Parametric Nonlinear Structural Dynamics Models for Real-Time Computing

12-1 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

Archaeological Databases with Filemaker

12:30-2:30 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

Differential Geometry Seminar

1:10-2 p.m.

Seminar 231, Public Finance: “Quantifying the Welfare Gains of Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach”

2-3:30 p.m.

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Imperial Examination System

2-3:30 p.m.

Reading Technopoetic Japan

2:30 p.m.

Preventing Gun Violence: What Works and What Stands in the Way

3-4:30 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Clemens Gadenstätter

3 p.m.

Siqian Shen - Ambiguous Chance-Constrained Bin Packing under Mean-Covariance Information

3:30-5 p.m.

IB Seminar: Rhythms of Life in Fluctuating Environments

4-5 p.m.

Monsters, Mages, Cripples, Saints: Extended Ranges of Awareness in 21st-Century Russian Literature

4-6 p.m.

Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 208, Microeconomics Theory: "Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention"

4-6 p.m.

Health, Race, and Housing: Three Perspectives on Urban Inequality

4-6 p.m.

BLISS Seminar: Geometric optimization: convex and nonconvex

4-5 p.m.

China’s Economic Statecraft Toward Myanmar and North Korea

4-6 p.m.

Science and Mathematics Education Colloquium

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: Information as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence on the Policy and Political Impacts of Anticipated Information Disclosures on Delhi Politicians

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

CARA Anniversary Symposium

RAPDP - Intermediate - FM8 Award Modifications

9-11 a.m.

The effects of stress during pregnancy

9-9:30 a.m.

Bus Rapid Transit: Planning, Design, and Operations

9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Institutional Investor Behavior and Market Dynamics

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

UCMP Fossil Coffee

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Enhancing Precision and Efficiency in Macromolecular Synthesis

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

BSAC Technology Seminar - Silicon-Based Integrated Sensors and Systems with On-Chip Antennas

12-1 p.m.

Forestry Seminar

12:10-1 p.m.

Development Lunch:"Two short presentations"

12:30-1:30 p.m.

23andMe's research on the Genetic diversity and the African Diaspora.

12:30-2 p.m.

Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Journalists?

1-2 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Development of New Processing Schemes for High Quality Electronic Materials on Amorphous and Flexible Substrates

2-3 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Tools for Trustworthy Autonomy: Robust Predictions, Intuitive Control, and Optimized Interaction

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Academic Freedom, Hungary, and the Attack on the Central European University

3:30-5 p.m.

Factorization Algebra Seminar

3:40-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

3:45-4:45 p.m.

The Annual Alexander Pines Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Immigrant Rights Panel

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Recoupment and Predatory Pricing Analysis"

4:10-5:30 p.m.

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

5-6 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Digital Dissent

6-7:45 p.m.

Sustain U: Green Up Your Life

6:30-8 p.m.

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Computer Health Matters: User Friendly Workstations (BEUHS400)

8:30-9:30 a.m.

Keyboards and Mice: Ergonomic Alternatives (BEUHS401)

9:45-10:45 a.m.

Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Zach Hanna (seminar title TBA)

12-1 p.m.

Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Plant gene regulation and complex traits genetics"

12-1 p.m.

BioE Seminar: “Molecular Engineering of Biologic Drug Therapies and Diagnostic Platforms”

12-1 p.m.

A Tale of Two Women

2-5 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Privacy Paradigms and Data Markets Deriving from IoT

2-3 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2:10-3 p.m.

Random walk driven by two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field

3:10-4 p.m.

Systems Genetics of Tuberculosis

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Buying the Farm: The Financialization of US Agriculture.

3:30-5 p.m.

Applied Mathematics Seminar

3:30-4:30 p.m.

FoxO1 in Insulin Action and Lipid Metabolism

4-5 p.m.

Cross-validation with Confidence

4-5 p.m.

Center for Computational Biology Seminar

4-5 p.m.

IB Finishing Talk: Host specificity as a driver of diversity in parasitic plants: A case study in Aphyllon

4-5 p.m.

EECS Colloquium: Enabling the First Interstellar Missions with Integrated Photonics and Electronics

4-5 p.m.

Gas Separations in Metal-Organic Frameworks

4-6 p.m.

ERG Colloquium: Jeni Miller

4-5:30 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4:10-5 p.m.

Applied Algebra Seminar

5:15-6:15 p.m.

United Kingdom Universities Q&A Student Panel

6-7 p.m.

Crafter Dark

8-10 p.m.

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Paris/Berkeley/Bonn/Zürich Analysis Seminar

9:10-10 a.m.

Bus Rapid Transit: Planning, Design, and Operations

9:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Korea

10 a.m.-6 p.m.

IRLE Visitors Workshop

10:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Writing Your Research Proposal

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Berkeley Network Webinar Series

12-1 p.m.

Job Interviewing II: Practice Your Interviewing Skills (BECAR207)

12-1:30 p.m.

ESPM Seminar Series - Spring 2017 - Jack Stilgoe

12-1 p.m.

Planning Your Pregnancy Leave (BEUHS315)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

IB Seminar: Genetic and Phenotypic Divergence Along A Speciation Continuum in Tree Squirrels

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Derived Alegbraic Geometry seminar

1-2 p.m.

AIHA Northern CA and COEH-CE IH Forum

1:30-4 p.m.

North and South: Technologies of Order and Escape

3:30-5 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor: Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

4-5:30 p.m.

Bridging the gap between the spatial and mnemonic views of the hippocampus

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 242, Econometrics: TBA

4-5 p.m.

Adding Study Abroad to Your Resume Workshop

4-5 p.m.

Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: "Acting Wife: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments"

4:10-6 p.m.

Journalism and the Internet

6:30-8 p.m.

Friday, April 28, 2017

ESPM Graduate Student Symposium

9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Undergraduate Legal Studies Research Conference

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

6 Days, 50 Years: 1967 and the Politics of Time

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Essig Brunch Seminar

10-11 a.m.

Cognition Colloquium

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Learning and Legislating Love: Family Inequality and U.S. Marriage Education Policy

12-1:30 p.m.

Labor Lunch Seminar: “Does Sibling Gender Composition Affect Gender-Stereotypic Choice of Education?”

12-1 p.m.

Core Essentials for Better Posture (BEUHS402)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

ARE Seminar: Teevrat Garg

12:10-1:30 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FRESHMAN INFORMATION SESSION

1-2 p.m.

Engineering 2D Energy Landscapes Using Molecules and Defects

2-3 p.m.

Generalized quantum master equations in and out of equilibrium: When can one win?

2-4 p.m.

Student Probability/PDE Seminar

2:10-3:30 p.m.

Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar

2:10-3 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Samuel Andreyev

3 p.m.

Environmental Engineering Seminar

3-4 p.m.

Personal Digital Archives: From Accumulation to Legacy

3:10-5 p.m.

6 Days, 50 Years: 1967 and the Politics of Time

3:30-5 p.m.

Neil Bartlett Memorial Lecture

4-5 p.m.

Music Studies Colloquium: Adeline Mueller (Mount Holyoke College), "Cadences of the Childlike: Familial Intimacy in Mozart’s Sonatas for Four Hands and Double and Triple Concertos"

4:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 29, 2017

California Cognitive Science Conference

Foundations 1: World Languages and Common Core Literacy

8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Berkeley-Haas Africa Business Forum

8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

18th Microbiology Student Symposium

8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Science of Burnout

9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Critter Corner

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.