Academic
Monday, May 1, 2017
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Dissertation Talk: Provably Secure Computing using Certified Software and Trusted Hardware
Presentation | May 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 531 Cory Hall
$K$-theory seminar: The Chern Character in twisted $K$-theory
Seminar | May 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, 740 and then 959
Graduate Student Seminar
Seminar | May 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Anthropology on the Frontlines: Honoring the work of Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Conference/Symposium | May 1 | 1-7 p.m. | Alumni House
String-Math Seminar: Geometry behind the shuffle conjecture
Seminar | May 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Contact and symplectic foliations/Skeleta of Weinstein manifolds
Seminar | May 1 | 2:30-5 p.m. | Stanford University Mathematics Department, 384H/383N
Deepak Rajan - Distributed-memory branch-and-bound tree search for stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs)
Seminar | May 1 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Physical Mechanisms of Cell Organization on Micron Length Scales
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Dissertation Talk: Safe and Interactive Autonomy: Control, Learning, and Verification
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall
IB Finishing Talk: Breaking the rules: phylogeny, not life history, explains dental eruption sequence in mammals
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar: A conjecture in Diophantine geometry, via model theory
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Seminar 271, Development: Mechanism Design meets Development: Selective Trials for Technology Diffusion
Seminar | May 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk: Parallel Machine Learning Using Concurrency Control
Seminar | May 1 | 5-6 p.m. | 465H Soda Hall
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Brand Training Workshop 1: Strategy and visual design
Workshop | May 2 | 9-11:30 a.m. | UC Berkeley Campus
Teaching in Summer Workshop
Workshop | May 2 | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Anthropology on the Frontlines: Honoring the work of Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Conference/Symposium | May 2 | 11 a.m.-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Clayton C. Heathcock Lecture: Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
Seminar | May 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Innate-like B cells and their rules of engagement in infection
Seminar | May 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition | Note change in location
RTGC and $K$-theory seminar: Character Formulas for Matrix Factorisations
Seminar | May 2 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 732 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk - Integrated Nanoscale Antenna-LED for On-Chip Optical Communication
Seminar | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Making the Most of Social Security (BEUHS360)
Workshop | May 2 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal: Workshop with Tobias Warner (UC Davis)
Workshop | May 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | TBD Dwinelle Hall
Queer Hyenas: Exclusion and Sanctuary in Senegalese Visual Culture
Colloquium | May 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Development Lunch:"Two short presentations"
Seminar | May 2 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk: Towards Personalized Predictive Medicine — On Remote Monitoring, Privacy and Publication Bias
Presentation | May 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
AI for Enterprise Security: The Challenges From a Data Scientist’s Perspective
Seminar | May 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 205 South Hall
Dissertation Talk: All-Mechanical Receiver
Seminar | May 2 | 2-3 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Young Scholars Research Symposium: A celebration of student excellence
Conference/Symposium | May 2 | 4-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
How to complete the MCAT and succeed in applying to medical school:
Workshop | May 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 1229 Dwinelle Hall
Scalar for Multimedia Digital Projects Workshop
Workshop | May 2 | 5 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, Rm. 340 - BCNM Commons
Buddhist Sectarianism in Burma’s Last Kingdom
Colloquium | May 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
EPMS Weekly Seminar
Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Deconstructing and reconstructing microbial communities using cheese
Seminar | May 2 | 6-7 p.m. | Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
2017 California Transportation Planning Conference
Conference/Symposium | May 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Walnut Creek Marriott
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Computer Workstation Evaluator Training (BEUHS403)
Workshop | May 3 | 8 a.m.-12 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
BFI Research Showcase
Colloquium | May 3 | 8:45-10:45 a.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
American Studies Spring Conference: Twice-Told Tales
Conference/Symposium | May 3 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club
History 101 Circus: Undergraduate Research Showcase
Presentation | May 3 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series with Cristina Banks, PhD and Edward Yelin, PhD: Health and Employment: Macro Context and Micro Initiatives
Seminar | May 3 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Webinar
Capstone Showcase 2017: Berkeley Master of Engineering
Presentation | May 3 | 10:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m. | Shires Hall
$K$-theory seminar: Twisted $K_G(G)$ and Loop group representations
Seminar | May 3 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Hidden Burdens: How Social and Educational Experiences Are Shaped by Race and Immigration Status
Colloquium | May 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Duster Conference Room
Measuring Cultural Models and Contraceptive Use Among Young US Women: Demography Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | May 3 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Two axes of subordination: How immigration shapes racial dynamics in the U.S.
Colloquium | May 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Dissertation Talk: Reconfigurable Micromechanical Filters
Seminar | May 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Link homotopy in dimensions 3
Seminar | May 3 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
BioE Seminar: “Biologically fabricated materials composed of engineered biofilm matrix proteins”
Seminar | May 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building | Note change in time
The continuous-time lace expansion and it’s applications
Seminar | May 3 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Optimization-based Estimation and Control of Uncertain Systems
Seminar | May 3 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Actomyosin mediated tension and uncoupled respiration in adipose tissue
Seminar | May 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Loving and Blacking: Interracial Intimacies Among Campus Students in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Seminar | May 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Subtle but not malicious? The (high) computational cost of non-smoothness in learning from big data
Seminar | May 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Structure Property Relationship of Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes/An Imaging-Based Human Embryonic Stem Cell Assay for Teratogenic Activity
Colloquium | May 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Link homotopy in dimensions 4
Seminar | May 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: "The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation"
Seminar | May 3 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
EECS Colloquium: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit: A Deep Neural Network Accelerator for the Datacenter
Colloquium | May 3 | 5-6 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium) | Note change in time
Thursday, May 4, 2017
2017 California Transportation Planning Conference
Conference/Symposium | May 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Walnut Creek Marriott
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Science to Practice Conference Series: Building the Best Workplace for Health and Well-Being
Conference/Symposium | May 4 | 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business
RAPDP - Intermediate - FM9 Award Reporting
Course | May 4 | 9-11 a.m. | University Hall, Room 24
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | May 4 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Tan Hall, 775 A/B | Note change in location
Graduate Symposium on German Medieval Studies
Colloquium | May 4 – 5, 2017 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Talk: Systems-Aware Optimization for Machine Learning at Scale
Seminar | May 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 405 Soda Hall
Finding Research Funding: BRDO Spring Seminar Series for Faculty
Workshop | May 4 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Survival of the Fittest: the Impact of the Minimum Wage on Restaurant Closures
Seminar | May 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Katy Seto Finishing Talk
Seminar | May 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
IB Seminar: Disease transmission through the lens of fluid dynamics
Seminar | May 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Dissertation Talk: Polynomial Proof Systems, Effective Derivations, and their Applications in the Sum-of-Squares Hieararchy
Seminar | May 4 | 1-2 p.m. | 606 Soda Hall
Seminar 251, Labor: RRR Week
Seminar | May 4 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
Special Topology Seminar: The geometry of the cyclotomic trace
Seminar | May 4 | 2-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk: Fast Approximation Algorithms for Positive Linear Programs
Seminar | May 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall
Sculpting the nervous system: Cellular and molecular mechanismsof neural circuit refinement
Seminar | May 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Seminar 242, Econometrics: "In-fill Asymptotic Theory for Structural Break Point in Autoregression: A Unified Theory"
Seminar | May 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: ““Unions and inequality over the twentieth century: New evidence from survey data”"
Seminar | May 4 | 4:10-6 p.m. | Haas School of Business, C325 Cheit Hall
Applied Algebra Seminar: Algebraic Approaches to the Belgian Chocolate Problem
Seminar | May 4 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Friday, May 5, 2017
2017 California Transportation Planning Conference
Conference/Symposium | May 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Walnut Creek Marriott
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Teaching History Conference: Teaching History in the 21st Century
Conference/Symposium | May 5 | 2407 Dwinelle Hall
Teaching History in the 21st Century
Conference/Symposium | May 5 – 6, 2017 every day | 8 a.m.-5:45 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall
The 2006 Immigration Protests: A Decade Later
Conference/Symposium | May 5 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Logic at UC Berkeley: May 5th Morning Session
Conference/Symposium | May 5 | 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | 141 McCone Hall
Logic at UC Berkeley Conference: Absolutely ordinal definable sets
Seminar | May 5 | 9:30-10:45 a.m. | 141 McCone Hall
Essig Brunch Seminar: Sexual Selection and Signal Evolution in Peacock Spiders (Genus: Maratus)
Colloquium | May 5 | 10-11 a.m. | 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building
TRANSFER INFORMATION SESSION
Presentation | May 5 | 10-11:45 a.m. | Wurster Hall
Graduate Symposium on German Medieval Studies
Colloquium | May 4 – 5, 2017 every day | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Talk: High Dimensional Reachability Analysis: Addressing the Curse of Dimensionality in Formal Verification
Seminar | May 5 | 10-11 a.m. | 405 Soda Hall
Logic at UC Berkeley Conference: Reflections on model theory and foundations
Seminar | May 5 | 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | 141 McCone Hall
Cognition Colloquium: David Bourgin, "Putting the “me” back in recommendation: A comparative study of recommendation models from computer science and cognitive psychology"
Colloquium | May 5 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Tolman Hall, Room 5101
ARE Seminar: Manisha Shah
Seminar | May 5 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 201 Giannini Hall
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | May 5 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Logic at UC Berkeley Conference: Computability Theory
Seminar | May 5 | 2:15-3:30 p.m. | 3 LeConte Hall
Logic at UC Berkeley: May 5th Afternoon Session
Conference/Symposium | May 5 | 2:15-5 p.m. | 3 LeConte Hall
MENA Salon
Workshop | February 3 – May 5, 2017 every Friday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 340, Sultan Conference Room
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Annual Alumni Seminar: Structure and strategy in host-pathogen conflicts
Seminar | May 5 | 3-4 p.m. | Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium
Environmental Engineering Seminar
Seminar | May 5 | 3-4 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall
Dissertation Talk: Three-Dimensional Microwave Imaging for Indoor Environments
Presentation | May 5 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 2108 Allston Way (Berkeley Wireless Research Center), Front Classroom
Logic at UC Berkeley Conference: On relating type theories to (intuitionistic) set theories
Seminar | May 5 | 3:45-5 p.m. | 3 LeConte Hall
Kenneth N. Raymond Lecture: Ken Raymond's Broad Influence on the Development of Metallacrowns
Seminar | May 5 | 4-5 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Return of Ten Thousand Dharmas: A Celebration in Honor of Patricia Berger
Conference/Symposium | May 5 | 4-6 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater
