All events
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Free Wednesday at the Garden
Special Event | January 4 – December 6, 2017 the first Wednesday of the month every month with exceptions | UC Botanical Garden
Every first Wednesday at the Garden is free admission day.
Water's Extreme Journey
Special Event | January 29 – April 30, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
Become a raindrop and go on an interactive adventure through a water-cycle-themed maze. Have fun riding the Watershed Zip Line, walk through a giant wetland, and snap a pic of your family "swimming" with the dolphins—all while developing a deeper understanding of your place in the water ecosystem.
$10–12 Water's Extreme Journey is included with your admission. Free for members.
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/visit/hours_cost_location.
Water's Extreme Journey at the Lawrence Hall of Science
2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series: An Overview of Occupational Epidemiology and the Healthy Worker Effect with Erika Garcia, PhD Candidate
Lecture | March 1 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | 2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series
Erika Garcia, http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/garcia
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Continuing Education (COEH-CE) Program
In this webinar, Erika Garcia, a PhD candidate in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, UC Berkeley will provide an overview of occupational epidemiology and the Healthy Worker Effect.
Objectives
On completion of this webinar participants will:
Gain an understanding of the purpose of occupational epidemiology
Become aware of exposure assessment methods in occupational... More >
$0 Free Webinar, $30 CE Credit
Enrollment opens January 30. Enroll online or by calling 510-643-7277, or by emailing info@coehce.org by March 1.
Newt Discovery Station
Special Event | March 1 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Newts return! Each year, the winter rains prompt newts to migrate to the Garden’s Japanese Pool where their mating behaviors can be easily observed. Docents will be on hand to provide garden visitors with an up-close look at newts at all stages of their life cycle, and to answer questions about these amazing and adorable animals. Free with Garden admission.
Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar: Sparse Recovery via Differential Inclusions
Seminar | March 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall
Yuan Yao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Estimate or recovery of sparse parameters from their noisy measurements is a fundamental problem in compressed sensing and high dimensional statistics, etc. In the past two decades, convex regularization approach such as LASSO or BPDN has been made popular for its algorithmic tractability. However, a well-known shortcoming of LASSO and any convex regularizations lies in the bias of estimators,... More >
Mobile Technologies for Health
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Ida Sim, Professor, UCSF
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Dr. Ida Sim is a primary care physician, informatics researcher, and entrepreneur. She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she co-directs Biomedical Informatics at UCSF's Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Her current research focuses on the use of mobile apps and sensors to improv
Free
Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch. Register online
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "From the Evolution of an Organelle to Photosynthetic Function"
Seminar | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Arthur Grossman, Stanford University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Our activities over the last five years have been extremely diverse, crossing over various disciplines. We have explored areas ranging from identifying new functions associated with photosynthetic processes, the mechanism(s) of coral bleaching and the impact of temperature and light on the bleaching process, metagenomic and genomic diversity among primary producers in hot spring mats, metabolic... More >
Arthur Grossman
Beyond Hype, Hysteria, and Headlines: Strategies for Addressing Media Literacy Gaps in the Classroom
Colloquium | March 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 117 (Level D) - Academic Innovation Studio
Beverly Crawford, Political Science / Economy; Leslea Hlusko, Integrative Biology; Jean Retzinger, Media Studies; Edward Wasserman, Journalism
Cody Hennesy, Doe Library
Michael Larkin, College Writing Program
Academic Innovation Studio, Library, Center for Teaching and Learning
How do we help students understand, navigate, and engage with a rapidly changing and increasingly complex online information landscape--in an era of echo chambers, filter bubbles, and misinformation? Faculty from political science, journalism, media studies, biology and college writing will share teaching examples and lead a discussion about what we can and should do to help students.
This event is intended for Berkeley faculty, graduate students, and academic support staff.
Models of Settlement Systems in Pre-Hispanic and Modern Mesoamerica
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Mario Castillo, University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Archaeological Research Facility
This talk details collaborative work on settlement patterns in the Valle de Mezquital, Mexico, with scholars and descendant community members. The first an analysis of regional settlement ecology in the Tula region of Ancient Mesoamerica. The second is a survey of vernacular housing from Mexico's post-revolutionary period. In regards to Tula this presentation will discuss the development of a... More >
BioE Seminar: “Examining cellular signaling in complex environments with microscale systems”
Seminar | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Ashleigh Theberge, University of Washington
Spring 2017 Seminar Series
Wednesday, March 1
12noon - 1:00pm
290 Hearst Mining Building
“Examining cellular signaling in complex environments with microscale systems”
Ashleigh Theberge
Assistant Professor of Chemistry - University of Washington
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urology - University of Washington School of Medicine
Small molecule and protein signals provide a rich... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Carlos Daniel Cadena "Tropical mountains: Biodiversity hotspots and hotbeds for studying evolutionary diversification"
Seminar | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Carlos Daniel Cadena
MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist... More >
The Director’s Cut: Challenges and Delights of Oral History Narratives with Syrian Refugee Women: CMES Visiting Scholars Lecture Series
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Ozlem Ezer, CMES Visiting Scholar
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Graduate workshop to follow.
PopUp Exhibition: Alan Elbaum | Between Magic and Medicine: Karaite Manuscripts at The Magnes
Lecture | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Alan Elbaum is a second-year medical student at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. While at Berkeley, he is working toward a master's degree in the history of medicine, using manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah. More broadly, Elbaum is interested in the literature and culture of the Jews of Arab lands; historical perspectives on medicine and the social determinants of health; and how... More >
California Countercultures: Pynchon’s Paranoid California with Michael Cohen
Lecture | March 1 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1964, Thomas Pynchon applied for graduate study in the math department at UC Berkeley. Fortunately for world literature, Berkeley rejected Pynchon, who went on to write several of the greatest works of postwar American literature, including The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), and Inherent Vice (2009). Though he was rejected by Cal, the Long Island–born... More >
Free for BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff, retirees; 18 & under + guardian | $10 Non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, disabled persons | $12 General admission | Event is included with admission
Real-Time and Adaptive Auditory Neural Processing
Seminar | March 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Sahar Akram, Starkey Hearing Research Center
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Decoding the dynamics of brain activity underlying conscious behavior is one of the key questions in systems neuroscience. Sensory neurons, such as those in the auditory system, can undergo rapid and task-dependent changes in their response characteristics during attentive behavior, and thereby result in functional changes in the system over time. In order to quantify human’s conscious... More >
Noon Concert: University Wind Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | March 1 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
University Wind Ensemble
Robert Calonico, director
MASLANKA Symphony No. 4
SPITTAL Scherzo: Cat and Mouse
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on... More >
A connectionist approach to value based decision making
Colloquium | March 1 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Gaurav Suri, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Connectionist approaches involving neural network modeling have been broadly and successfully applied in many areas of cognitive psychology including language, memory, learning and perception. However they have been infrequently applied in 'hot' psychological processes that feature affect and motivation. In this talk I will propose an Interactive Activation and Competition (IAC) neural network... More >
Family Wealth as Intergenerational Insurance: Demography Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | March 1 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Demography Seminar Room
Fabian Pfeffer, University of Michigan
Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion series, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to the population sciences broadly defined.
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life with Adam Greenfield: a part of COMMONS CONVERSATIONS: TECHNOLOGY and PUBLIC LIFE IN CHANGING TIMES
Panel Discussion | March 1 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library | Note change in date
Adam Greenfield, University College London
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life with Adam Greenfield
a part of COMMONS CONVERSATIONS: TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC LIFE IN CHANGING TIMES
Co-sponsored with the Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Everywhere we turn, our everyday experience of the world is being transfigured by the advent of startling new technologies. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory... More >
Study Abroad Office Hours at the Transfer Center
Information Session | January 25 – May 3, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 1-3 p.m. | 100 César E. Chávez Student Center
Interested in studying abroad as a transfer student? A Berkeley Study Abroad Peer Adviser will be holding drop-in office hours at the Transfer Student Center every Wednesdays 1-3pm this spring semester. Come learn about different programs offered, how to apply and additional services available.
Oral History and Research Methods Workshop
Workshop | March 1 | 1:30-3 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Ozlem Ezer, CMES Visiting Scholar
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Join CMES Visiting Scholar Dr. Ozlem Ezer (Bogazici University) for a hands-on, interactive, interdisciplinary workshop that will benefit graduate students new to fieldwork or seasoned interviewers. In addition to some key works/readings of oral history, participants will tackle a variety of provocative scenarios inspired by real-life situations and questions.
Discussion will mainly focus on... More >
Open to current students and academic affiliates only. RSVP by emailing cmes@berkeley.edu
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | February 1, 2017 – December 5, 2018 the first Wednesday of the month every month with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
Gilman Scholarship Essay Review
Workshop | March 1 | 2-4 p.m. | 160 Stephens Hall
Are you applying to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship?
Come to the Gilman Scholarship Essay Review and get feedback on your application essays from recent Gilman Scholars from UC Berkeley.
The Gilman Scholarship deadline for Summer 2017, Fall 2017 and Year 17-18 study abroad programs and internships is 9:59 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7, 2017.
For more information or to apply,... More >
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Introdution to fully extended topological field theories and the Cobordism Hypothesis
Seminar | March 1 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Claudia Scheimbauer, Max Planck
Atiyah and Segal's axiomatic approach to topological and conformal quantum field theories provided a beautiful link between the geometry of "spacetimes" (cobordisms) and algebraic structures. Combining this with the physical notion of "locality" led to the introduction of the language of higher categories into the topic. In this talk I will give an introduction to topological field theories and... More >
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Leonid Kruglyak , Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA
Seminar | March 1 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Center for Computational Biology
Title: Complex traits and simple systems
More than the sum of their parts: Categorizing and representing real world scenes: Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science/Computational Cognition Search
Colloquium | March 1 | 3 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Micheel Greene
Study Abroad in Japan
Presentation | March 1 | 3-5 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Learn about study abroad opportunities in Japan and a variety of financial resources, including scholarships from the Japanese government. During this event, students will have the opportunity to hear from past study abroad students and representatives from the Japanese Consulate, partner universities in Japan, and Berkeley Study Abroad. Students are invited to stay for refreshments after the... More >
Softball vs. Pacific
Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | March 1 | 3 p.m. | Levine-Fricke Field
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Softball hosts Pacific at Levine-Fricke Field.
Coffee Break!
Social Event | August 31, 2016 – April 26, 2017 every Wednesday | 3-4 p.m. | Julie's Cafe
2562 Bancroft Way.
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Join the Coffee Break every Wednesday afternoon! Boost your global network and meetup with friends.
Coffee break, hosted by Berkeley International Office, is an informal weekly event where Cal students can connect, share stories, or learn about different culture and language. Free coffee for UCB students! Both international students and domestic students are welcome.
Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | United States, 1959
Film - Feature | March 1 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
David Thomson
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
With a lecture of the film from David Thomson
FEATURING
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft,
Billy Wilder thumbs his nose at all the rules, mixing slapstick and screwball, gangster film and musical into a racy, transvestite farce. Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, Prohibition-era jazz musicians on the run from gangland Chicago, don drag and sign on with a touring all-woman... More >
Special Admission Applies: General admission: $13.50 | BAMPFA members: $9.50 | UC Berkeley students: $7.50 | 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
Optimal Surviving Strategy for the “Up the River” Problem
Seminar | March 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Wenpin Tang, U.C. Berkeley
The "Up the River" problem was formulated by Aldous (2002), where a unit drift is distributed among a finite collection of Brownian particles on R+, which are annihilated once they reach the origin. Starting K particles at x = 1, we prove Aldous’ conjecture that the push-the-laggard strategy of distributing the drift asymptotically (as K → ∞) maximizes the total number of surviving... More >
The Remittance Forest and Other New Frontiers.
Colloquium | March 1 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
Professor Nancy Peluso, University of California Berkeley
Number Theory Seminar: The functor $L_\eta $
Seminar | March 1 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Joe Stahl, UC Berkeley
The Transition from Complex Chemistry to Simple Biology Part 2. Systems Level Puzzles in Protocell Design
Seminar | March 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Jack Szostak, Simches Research Center Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Molecular Biology, and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology 7215
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Allan C. Wilson Memorial Lectures
ERG Colloquium: Andrew McAllister: ZNet Energy Buildings and the Art of Energy Policy
Colloquium | March 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission
DESCRIPTION:
In the mid-2000's, California began to establish policy goals for Zero Net Energy (ZNE) buildings. Commissioner McAllister will discuss progress toward these goals in terms of energy-related building codes, trends in buildings-related technologies and markets, local government authority and overall energy systems planning. ZNE buildings serve as a jumping-off point for a broader... More >
Queer Reparations of Russia’s Periphery: in non-Metropolitan Time and Space
Lecture | March 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Veronika Lapina, Wayne Vucinich Fellow, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
Guided by the assumption that some spaces more than others produce and are shaped by homophobia, researchers seem to fall into a trap of paranoia, which Eve Sedgwick famously narrated as paying attention only to how systemic oppression functions, thus drifting away from illuminating the ways in which sexuality exhibits itself. Contagious paranoia rearticulates spaces and places - even territories... More >
Novel Methods for Classical Polarizable Molecular Dynamics Simulations/Molecular Simulations of Amyloid-β Peptide
Colloquium | March 1 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Alex Albaugh, Ph.D. student in the Head-Gordon Group; Sukanya Sasmal, Ph.D. student in the Head-Gordon Group
Convex cost closure and Markov Random Fields problems: Applications and fastest-possible algorithms
Seminar | March 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Dorit S. Hochbaum, IEOR dept UC Berkeley
Many problems in fitting observations while satisfying rank order constraints, occur in contexts of learning, Lipschitz regularization and Isotonic regression (with or without fused Lasso). All these problems can be abstracted as a convex cost closure problem which is to minimize the cost of deviating from the observations while satisfying rank order constraints. Any feasible solution that... More >
Oh, God! The Religious Right to Sexual Pleasure on Christian Sexuality Websites
Colloquium | March 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Kelsy Burke, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Center for Right-Wing Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
This talk examines how some conservative evangelical Christians justify a wide range of sexual practices and pleasures within the confines of religious orthodoxy and heterosexuality.
The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People
Seminar | March 1 | 4-5 p.m. | International House
Nina Jablonski, Pennsylvania State University
Better understanding of non-convex methods in machine learning
Seminar | March 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 306 Soda Hall
Tengyu Ma, Princeton University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
We show that matrix completion — a famous problem in machine learning — can be solved by stochastic gradient descent on the straightforward non-convex objective function in polynomial time.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Fully extended twisted field theories
Seminar | March 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Claudia Scheimbauer, Max Planck
After recalling functorial field theories I will explain a natural generalization thereof, called "twisted" field theories by Stolz-Teichner and closely related to Freed-Teleman's "relative" boundary field theories. A natural target for such a twisted field theory is the higher Morita category of algebras, bimodules, and intertwiners, and generalizations. Using the Cobordism Hypothesis, we will... More >
The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Dr. Nina Jablonski
Lecture | March 1 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Dr. Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Nina Jablonski will present the Hitchcock lectures on February 28 and March 1, 2017. The second lecture is titled "The Cost of Color: The Health and Social Consequences of Skin Color for People Today" and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
About the lecture
Skin is the primary interface between ourselves and our environment, and changes in the... More >
Dr. Nina Jablonski
C3 IoT Info-Session
Information Session | March 1 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Career Connections Series: Writing and Media
Social Event | March 1 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way)
CAA has teamed up with the UC Berkeley Career Center to help students make connections and gain clarity in their career pursuits.
We are seeking a diverse group of approximately 15-20 Cal alumni who work in print and broadcast journalism, and/or digital media. The event will require minimal prep-work from attendees; simply arrive and share your insider knowledge through introductions & casual... More >
RSVP online by February 22.
MIT Broad Professor Feng Zhang at the Berkeley Forum: Harnessing Nature's Diversity for Biotechnology
Seminar | March 1 | 6-7:15 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.)
Recent advances in genome editing technology have made it possible to modify organisms, including humans, at the genetic level with relative ease. While such developments bode well for the treatment of many previously incurable conditions, they also open the door for the creation of arbitrary modifications to the genome for aesthetic and other non-medical purposes. Such possibilities are the... More >
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
Rugby vs. Santa Rosa JC
Sport - Intercollegiate - Rugby | March 1 | 6:30 p.m. | Witter Rugby Field
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Rugby hosts Santa Rosa JC at Witter Rugby Field.
Agents of Change: March Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | March 1 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Movies @ Moffitt happens on the first Wednesday of each month of the semester. M@M is free.
Agents of Change documents university student activism in the late 1960s that worked toward a variety of goals including the establishment of black and ethnic studies programs and building resistance to the war in Vietnam. The filmmakers envision their project as part of a social movement rather than... More >
Must have a UCB student ID for entrance.
Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | United States, 2016
Film - Documentary | March 1 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kirsten Johnson has been the principal cinematographer on more than forty documentaries. For her, “The joys of being a documentary cameraperson are endless . . . and yet, the dilemmas I face while holding my camera are formidable.” In Cameraperson, she assembles a selection of her footage—whose subjects include a Nigerian midwife, an Afghan boy, and Jacques Derrida, as well as her twin children... More >
Free for Cal Student Film Pass holders | $7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission
Science Cafe - Searching for dark matter: with Matt Pyle
Presentation | March 1 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Restaurant Valparaiso
1403 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
Matt Pyle, Department of Physics
What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly in telescopes. Instead, this matter must be observed indirectly through its gravitational pull on the objects that we can see. This is how the term “dark matter” was coined…But how do we search for something we can’t... More >
Searching for dark matter
Berkeley Talks: Marlon James
Performing Arts - Other | March 1 | 8 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Jamaican author Marlon James, whose monumental latest novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, earned him the prestigious Man Booker Prize, visits for a discussion with Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks as part of the Berkeley Talks speaker series. Praised for his "vaulting ambition and prodigious talent" (The New York Times), James will discuss his writing process, as well as the themes that... More >
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Migrant Labor and Global Health Conference
Conference/Symposium | March 2 – 3, 2017 every day | Conference Center, UC Davis
Migration and Health Research Center (MAHRC)
The MLGH Conference brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars and scientists for two exciting days of exploration and debate on the interrelated issues of labor migration, occupational health, and economics.
International migration is a phenomenon that involves 244 million people worldwide, most of whom move in search of work and wellbeing. Migration is projected to increase in the... More >
Berkeley Communicators Toastmasters Club: To Gain Confidence and Find Your Voice
Meeting | December 1, 2016 – December 7, 2017 the first Thursday of the month every month | 7:30-8:30 a.m. | Au Coquelet Cafe, (backroom)
2000 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Berkeley Communicators Toastmasters Club
Find out how to improve your public speaking skills and build confidence through the Toastmaster.
If you have wanted to improve your communication skills, practice public speaking and leadership, but find it difficult to do on your own, this is the place for you.
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Thursday 7:30am - 8:30am every month
Free street parking and close to Downtown Berkeley BART
RAPDP - Intermediate - PD2 Proposal Development
Course | March 2 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | University Hall, Room 24
Synopsis: An intermediate workshop that explores the pre-award processes for analyzing requests for proposals, proposal preparation and assembly, submitting a proposal for institutional review via Phoebe, and submission to sponsor.
Botanical Illustration: Seeds and Seed Vessels with Catherine Watters
Workshop | March 2 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Come spend the day with renowned botanical artist Catherine Watters. In this workshop you will focus on drawing and painting seeds and seed vessels - remarkable structures worth documenting! Class is suitable for the beginner and advanced artist alike.
$90 Adult, $85 Garden Members
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Water's Extreme Journey
Special Event | January 29 – April 30, 2017 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science
Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS)
Become a raindrop and go on an interactive adventure through a water-cycle-themed maze. Have fun riding the Watershed Zip Line, walk through a giant wetland, and snap a pic of your family "swimming" with the dolphins—all while developing a deeper understanding of your place in the water ecosystem.
$10–12 Water's Extreme Journey is included with your admission. Free for members.
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/visit/hours_cost_location.
Free First Thursday at BAMPFA
Special Event | February 2 – December 7, 2017 the first Thursday of the month every month | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA. The galleries are free all day and we offer guided exhibition tours.
free admission to the galleries
Immigration Planning in an Era of Change -- President Trump’s Executive Orders and Post OPT Visa Options for Innovators, Investors and Entrepreneurs
Presentation | March 2 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room
Bernard Wolfsdorf, Attorney at Law, Wolfsdorf Rosenthal LLP
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Bernard Wolfsdorf, a California State Bar Specialist in Immigration Law will discuss immigration strategic planning for students, staff and faculty. Mr. Wolfsdorf is past President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and will provide insight into the Trump Administration's restrictive thinking on immigration, including new Executive Orders and likely new legislation. This presentation... More >
Learning-based and behavioural evidence for probabilistic perception in the cortex
Seminar | March 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Jozsef Fiser, Central European University
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
560 Evans
The notion of interpreting cortical operations as probabilistic computation has been steadily gaining ground in neuroscience, and with the emergence of the PPC-based and sampling-based frameworks, now there exist clear theoretical alternatives of how such computation might happen in the brain. Nevertheless, a number of crucial issues necessary to make these frameworks biologically... More >
Assessing Personality Type and Your Career with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator* (BECAR102)
Workshop | March 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services
TBA, University Health Services
Tang Center (University Health Services)
The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) can help you understand your preferred work style and how it relates to specific careers and work roles.
ESPM 2017 Seminar Series - Scott Fendorf
Seminar | March 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Scott Fendorf, Huffington Professor of Earth Science, Stanford University
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
"The Asian Water Crisis: Processes Responsible for the Largest Mass Poisoning in History"
How Will UC Merced Grow?—a 21 st Century Approach to Campus Expansion
Colloquium | March 2 | 12-1 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle 117
Thomas W. Peterson, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost,University of California, Merced; Daniel M. Feitelberg, Vice Chancellor, Planning and Budget,University of California, Merced
Center for Studies in Higher Education
As a means to accommodate the projected growth of eligible students, the University of California opened its tenth campus in 2005. The long-range goal for the University of California, Merced embraced a vision of a full-service research university that would serve 25,000 students at full capacity. Today’s challenge is how to meet those ambitious expectations in an era of diminished state support... More >
IB Faculty on Parade
Seminar | March 2 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Chelsea Specht: "The evolution of form and function: Linking genetic and phenotypic diversity", University of California, Berkeley; Noah Whiteman: "Breaking bad: Invasion of living plants in the Drosophilidae", University of California, Berkeley
Tech Talk 1: Tech and the ICC
Lecture | March 2 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 110 Boalt Hall, School of Law
International Criminal Court Investigator
Join the Human Rights Center for a discussion with an ICC investigator on the use of and potential for open source investigations—the combing of publicly accessible resources like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube—to get legal accountability for war crimes, crimes against humanity and
genocide. This spring, HRC will host three tech events at UC
Berkeley with leading experts in the field speaking... More >
Derived Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Shifted symplectic structures in derived algebraic geometry (part 2)
Seminar | March 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Alex Takeda, UC Berkeley
This is a continuation of last week's talk. The derived perspective in algebraic geometry allows us to define the notion of shifted symplectic structures, a generalization of symplectic structures to derived stacks. In this talk I will review the definitions and some theorems by Pantev, Toën, Vaquié and Vezzosi, and then proceed to examples. Most of the talk will be devoted to classes of... More >
Earth Week Planning Committee
Meeting | February 2 – April 27, 2017 every Thursday with exceptions | 1-2 p.m. | 102 Sproul Hall
Student Environmental Resource Center
Interested in planning Earth Week 2017 at UC Berkeley? The Student Environmental Resource Center is (SERC) is recruiting individual students and student representatives from environmental and sustainability student organizations to join the Earth Week 2017 Planning Committee.
Meetings will be held weekly on Thursdays from 1pm-2pm in Sproul 102. Drop-ins are welcome.
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
Seminar 251, Labor: CANCELED
Seminar | March 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
How to Prepare Human Subjects Protocols for Your Research Projects
Workshop | March 2 | 3-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Emily Harden, Office for the Protection of Human Subjects; Jason Silva, Office for the Protection of Human Subjects
Sean Burns, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
Featured Speaker: Emily Harden, Office for the Protection of Human Subjects
Featured Speaker: Jason Silva, Office for the Protection of Human Subjects
Moderator: Sean Burns, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Sponsor: Office of Undergraduate Research
This workshop is designed for undergraduates who are seeking to do independent research involving human participants.... More >
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science: A Book Talk with Clair Brown
Presentation | March 2 | 3-5 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society
Social Science Matrix, Department of Economics, Institute for Research in Labor and Employment, Library
Please join us as Clair Brown, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at UC Berkeley, will discuss her new book, Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science.
Buddhist Economics
The History of Inequality
Colloquium | March 2 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room
Walter Scheidel, Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University
Emmanuel Saenz, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Gabriel Zucman, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Gregory Clark, Professor of Economics, UC Davis
A colloquium with Walter Scheidel,
Professor of Classics and History, Stanford University.
The UC Berkeley community and the public are welcome.
Admission is free but registration is required
RSVP online or by calling 510-280-1623, or by emailing evasile@berkeley.edu by February 28.
Space, time and beyond: important features of molecular signaling by neuromodulators
Seminar | March 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
**Yao Chen**, Harvard University
Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling and Ab Initio Theory of Heat Transport
Seminar | March 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 348 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Professor Matthias Scheffler, Theory Department of the Fritz Haber Institute
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Different industrial products require materials with very low thermal conductivity, e.g. thermal-barrier coatings in turbines or thermoelectric materials, or high thermal conductivity, e.g. semiconductor technology and heterogeneous catalysis. However, an ab initio theory that can describe materials belonging to the whole range of such thermal conductivities was lacking so far. Recently we... More >
Seminar 242, Econometrics: Reading Group
Seminar | March 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Mikkel Sølvsten, UC Berkeley
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture: CRG Thursday Forum Series
Lecture | March 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies); Prof. Heiki Raphael-Hernandez, University of Maryland
The Center for Race & Gender Thursday Forum Series presents...
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture
A roundtable with Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies) and Prof. Heiki Raphael-Hernandez, University of Maryland
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from... More >
Rediscovering Clarice Lispector
Lecture | March 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Katrina Dodson
Center for Latin American Studies
Katrina Dodson, translator of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector and awardee of Pen Translation Prize discusses “Lispectormania”
A statue of Clarice Lispector and her dog in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Fernando Frazao/Agencia Brasil
Five Tables of Literary Associations
Workshop | March 2 | 4-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday and get an up-close view of some of the treasures (and occasional oddities) of the BAMPFA collections, laid out on the five tables in the seminar area. On view in this session: Lewis Carroll’s tiny portrait of bored little girl Xie Kitchin; Julia Margaret Cameron’s romantic photograph Elaine, from Idylls of the King; a witty Buson fan painting... More >
Admission to this event is free
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Faltings heights and derivatives of L-functions
Colloquium | March 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Shouwu Zhang, Princeton
I will talk about my recent joint work with Xinyi Yuan on an averaged version of Colmez’ conjecture with applications to the Andre-Oort conjecture, and discuss some related work by Zhiwei Yun and Wei Zhang on high derivatives of L-functions over function fields.
Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: "1984 or the Brave New World? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Media Censorship in China"
Seminar | March 2 | 4:10-6 p.m. | Haas School of Business, C325 Cheit Hall
David Yang, Stanford, Haas School of Business
Part of the Haas School's Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis
Lives of the Great Languages: Cosmopolitan Languages in the Medieval Mediterranean: 2017 Marie G. Ringrose Graduate Lecture
Lecture | March 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Karla Mallette, University of Michigan
Department of Italian Studies, Department of English, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Geography, Department of Linguistics, Near Eastern Studies, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Medieval Studies Program, The Program in Romance Languages and Literatures, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The Ringrose Lecture, begun in 1998, features a distinguished scholar in some aspect of Italian Studies chosen by a committee of UCB graduate students, who also organize and run the event. The lecture is one of many department activities made possible by the generous contributions of Marie G. Ringrose, a UCB alumna.
HTNM Lecture with Kavita Philip, "The Pirate Function"
Lecture | March 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 340, BCNM Commons
Kavita Philip, University of California Irvine
Pirates who threaten to invert power relations through appropriating things less tangible than ships and bodies have become a growing concern for the managers of twenty-first-century economic globalization. Appropriating, modifying and sharing a range of less concrete but equally crucial objects, intellectual property “robbers” today traffic in images, music, and software. Although business... More >
Grappling with Cure
Lecture | March 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room
Eli Clare, Author, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
Join writer and activist Eli Clare as he grapples with this knot of contradictions, maintaining that neither an anti-cure politics nor a pro-cure worldview can account for the messy, complex relationships we have with our body-minds.
Medieval Philosophy
Meeting | March 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 6220 Dwinelle Hall
Queer Potentialities: on Space and Communities
Lecture | March 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 1000 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
THU MAR 2, 5-6:30 pm. Queer Urbanisms, a student-led initiative at UC Berkeley’s Architecture department, invites you to a talk by Olivier Vallerand.
Donner ce que l'on n'a pas:: Les gestes paradoxaux du 'Testament'
Lecture | March 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4229 - French Department Library
Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Professor Emerita of the University of Paris-Sorbonne
Applied Algebra Seminar: Learning Regularizers from Data
Seminar | March 2 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Yong Sheng Soh, California Institute of Technology
Regularization techniques are widely employed in the solution of inverse problems in data analysis and scientific computing due to their effectiveness in addressing difficulties due to ill-posedness. In their most common manifestation, these methods take the form of penalty functions added to the objective in optimization-based approaches for solving inverse problems. The purpose of the penalty... More >
Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture: A Roundtable with Prof. Leigh Raiford and Prof. Heiki Raphael-Hernandez
Reading - Nonfiction | March 2 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Ethnic Studies Library (30 Stephens Hall)
Dr. Leigh Raiford, Chair and Associate Professor of African American Studies, Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley; Dr. Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Professor of English, University of Maryland in Europe
Center for Race and Gender, Ethnic Studies Library
Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media-from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels-has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the travel of black bodies reflected in reciprocal black images? How is blackness forged and remade through... More >
Flood in Ba'ath Country: Contemporary Syrian Documentaries
Film - Documentary | March 2 | 5:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Flood in Ba'ath Country (2003, Omar Amiralay)
Contemporary Syrian Documentaries
curated by Nathalie Khankan (Near Eastern Studies)
in partnership with the Arab Film Festival
Part of "To Aleppo Gone:" Syrian Culture Today, series of programs exploring the arts in Syria.
Food Stamped: Real Food Real Stories
Film - Documentary | March 2 | 6-9 p.m. | 101 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Student Environmental Resource Center, Berkeley Food Institute, Food, Equity, Entrepreneurship, & Development (FEED)
Food Stamped highlights the lives of a couple living on a food stamp budget, the struggles they face, the adversities they overcome, and the bigger picture of what the US food stamp program entails.
Micron Technology Info-session
Information Session | March 2 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430-8)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Join Micron at the forefront of technology's next evolution. Micron Technology is a world leader in memory and semiconductor technology offering the industry's broadest portfolio of silicon-to-semiconductor solutions.
We're hiring in the following majors: EE, CS, Chemical, Physics, IEOR, Materials Science, and Mechanical.
Refreshments will be provided as well as a raffle for a Crucial SSD.
Food Stamped Movie Screening
Film - Documentary | March 2 | 6-8:30 p.m. | 101 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Yoav Potash, Filmmaker
Sophia Lorenzi, Program Manager, Real Food Real Stories
Join us for the screening of the film documentary "Food Stamped" with a presentation by Real Food Real Stories! This is the program of the event:
- 6:00-6:20 PM: Food prepared by FEED officers will be provided
- 6:20-6:30 PM: Presentation by Real Food Real Stories
- 6:30-7:40 PM: Viewing of "Food Stamped" Documentary film
- 7:40-8:30 PM: Q&A with the filmmaker Yoav Potash!
Presented by... More >
Rereading Glaucon's challenge: Plato's distinctions in goodness: Sather Classical Lectures
Lecture | March 2 | 6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Mary Margaret McCabe, King's College London
The fourth lecture in the 2017 Sather series "Seeing and Saying: Plato on Virtue and Knowledge"
Drawn from Water: An American Poet, an Ethiopian Family, an Israeli Story
Lecture | March 2 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Dina Elenbogen
Center for Jewish Studies, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, Near Eastern Studies
What do we mean by home? In Drawn From Water, American Jewish writer Dina Elenbogen explores her thirty-year friendship with Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel as they struggle in a new country while dealing with her own desire to join them there.
Chan Is Missing | Wayne Wang | United States, 1982
Film - Feature | March 2 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Wayne Wang
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
FEATURING
Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, Lauren Chew, Peter Wang,
Following its local premiere at BAMPFA and critical acclaim at New Directors/New Films, this groundbreaking independent hit inspired generations of filmmakers and was named to the National Film Registry. Today it still seems fresh, intelligent, inventive. Playing with the pleasures and conceits of film noir, Wang imbues his irreverent... More >
Free for Cal Student Film Pass holders | $7 BAMPFA members, UC Berkeley students | $8 UC Berkeley faculty, staff, retirees; non-UC Berkeley students, 65+, 18 & under, disabled persons | $12 General admission
