Academic
Monday, March 5, 2018
WiDS Berkeley: The Global Women in Data Science Conference
Conference/Symposium | March 5 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | South Hall
The UC Berkeley School of Information is excited to partner with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to Berkeley, California.
The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference is an annual one-day technical conference based at Stanford, which brings together data scientists and professionals in adjacent fields from around the globe to discuss the latest... More >
Graduate Students Seminar
Seminar | March 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Vasha Dutell, Bruno Olshausen Lab; Emilia Zin, John Flannery Lab
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Vasha Dutell’s Talk Title: Natural Visual Signals and Heterogeneous Networks Optimized to Process Them
Abstract: One of the many mysteries of the retina is its great diversity of neuron types and subtypes. An example of this is the many retinal ganglion cells subtypes that independently tile visual space, creating multiple pathways that transmit different aspects of visual information to the... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Unified theory for finite Markov chains
Seminar | March 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Anne Schilling, UC Davis
We provide a unified framework to compute the stationary distribution of any finite irreducible Markov chain or equivalently of any irreducible random walk on a finite semigroup S. Our methods use geometric finite semigroup theory via the Karnofsky-Rhodes and the McCammond expansions of finite semigroups with specified generators; this does not involve any linear algebra. The original Tsetlin... More >
A History of Building Code Development in CA: Semm Seminar
Seminar | March 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Ronald Hamburger, SE, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Cities and states adopt building codes to protect the public safety. In California this process initiated following the great earthquake of 1906. The primary purpose of early codes was to avoid mass loss of life, whether caused by building collapse or urban conflagration. Most building code requirements have been based on observation of poor performance, and development of rules intended to... More >
Knowledge from Language via Deep Understanding
Seminar | March 5 | 1-2 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430-438 Wozniak Lounge
Danqi Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I explore novel neural network approaches that open up opportunities for getting a deep understanding of natural language text.
Molecular recording: capture and storage of data in the genome of a cell
Seminar | March 5 | 1-2 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
**Seth Shipman**, Harvard University
Seminar 231, Public Finance: "Stimulating Housing Markets"
Seminar | March 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 000 Evans Hall
Seminar 211, Economic History: The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System
Seminar | March 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Non-amenable, hyperfinite subfactors
Seminar | March 5 | 2-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University
I will present constructions of hyperfinite subfactors with infinite representation theory that cannot be recovered from their standard invariant. While it is open how to distinguish such non-amenable subfactors in general, some invariants are known and will be discussed. I hope to convince you that the world of non-amenable, hyperfinite subfactors is extremely interesting.
Differential Geometry Seminar: Gluing constructions for constant mean curvature hypersurfaces
Seminar | March 5 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Christine Breiner, Fordham University
Constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces are critical points for the area functional, subject to an enclosed volume constraint. Classical examples include spheres and cylinders. Until the late 1980's the only other known examples were the Wente torus and the rotationally symmetric surfaces of Delaunay. In 1990, Kapouleas developed a gluing construction that produced infinitely many new examples of... More >
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Different approaches to the virtual moduli cycle
Seminar | March 5 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | Stanford University, Room 384H
Dusa McDuff, Columbia
If one wants to count J-holomorphic curves in a general symplectic manifold, often one cannot get a good count simply by choosing a sufficiently generic J. Instead one needs a more elaborate perturbation scheme in order the define what is known as the virtual moduli cycle or virtual fundamental class, This talk will explain different ways of defining this, mentioning in particular new simpler... More >
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies"
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Several questions on Laplace eigenfunctions
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Alexander Logunov, Institute for Advanced Study
Let \((M,g)\) be a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary. We are interested in asymptotic properties of Laplace eigenfunctions on \(M\) as the eigenvalue \(\lambda \) tends to infinity. The advances of the last few years will be discussed and a survey of interesting open questions will be given.
Seminar 237/281, Macro/International Seminar: Topic Forthcoming
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
David Atkin, MIT
IB Seminar: Evolutionary Biology of Acquired Chemical Defenses
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Rebecca Tarvin, University of Texas at Austin
Nuclear quality control and the RNA exosome
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Christopher Lima, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Seminar 271, Development: "How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption"
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Cultivating the Paddy to Cultivate the Future: Joy and Challenges of a Small Scale Farmer in Rural Japan
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5:15 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Lounge
Nami Yamamoto, Kyoto University
Center for Diversified Farming Systems
Nami Yamamoto is an urban migrant from Osaka, Japan, who decided to go into the rural area and live there as new dweller with her partner and two young children. She will share the living experiences full of joy and difficulties in search of an alternative lifestyle in a rural village in Japan.
Statistics and Data Science: the Prediction and Modeling Cultures
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 102 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Roderick Little, University of Michigan
I recently taught a course entitled "Seminal Papers and Controversies in Statistics", and Leo Breiman's (2001) article "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures" was a very popular paper with students. The paper contrasts the machine learning culture, with it's focus on prediction, with more classical parametric modeling approach to statistics. I am more in the parametric modeling camp, but... More >
Unhappy in its Own Way: Revising the English Family Novel on Russian Soil
Colloquium | March 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Anna Berman, Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, McGill University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature
This is the second lecture of the Spring 2018 Slavic Graduate Colloquium lecture series.
On the benefits of being lost: When supporting exploration leads to better learning
Colloquium | March 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Ido Roll, Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of British Columbia
Most scaffolding literature advocates for providing novice learners with detailed explicit support. In this talk I will share examples that suggest otherwise, namely, that novice learners benefit more from implicit support for exploration. These examples span diverse STEM topics and student populations. Identifying commonalities across these, I will suggest forms of task and feedback that... More >
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Mapping Tori and Stable Pairs
Seminar | March 5 | 4-5 p.m. | Stanford University, Room 383N
Andrew Lee, UC Santa Cruz
In this talk we first recall a construction of a moduli space of objects over a Riemann surface, called stable pairs, which carries a symplectic structure. Symplectic geometry in this space allows us to produce a Floer-theoretic invariant of a particular class of 3-manifolds called mapping tori (surface bundles over the circle). Time permitting, we then outline a calculation of this invariant for... More >
UROC DeCal – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research (Hosted by UROC: Undergraduate Researchers of Color)
Course | January 29 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 6-8 p.m. | 174 Barrows Hall
Istifaa Ahmed, UROOC
Office of Undergraduate Research
Ethnic Studies 98/198
Class Time: Mondays, 6pm-8pm, 1/22/18 - 4/30/18
Course Control Number (CCN): 24251
Units: 1-3 units
Student Instructor: Istifaa Ahmed
Welcome to our student-led organization and DeCal, Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research! We seek to build a community of researchers of color... More >
