Academic
Friday, November 1, 2019
Fundamentals of Banking Law
Course | October 30 – November 1, 2019 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Charles Schwab
211 Main St., San Francisco, CA 94105
Berkeley Law Executive Education
Fundamentals of Banking Law addresses the key policies, concepts and regulations surrounding the financial markets, Dodd-Frank, and the rise of FinTech. Designed as a workshop and lecture-based program, rather than a seminar or conference, Fundamentals of Banking Law is taught by experienced practitioners, from leading institutions including Berkeley Law, Boston University, Charles Schwab, the... More >
RAPDP - Intermediate - Closeouts
Workshop | November 1 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Synopsis: An intermediate workshop the breaks down the process for closing a sponsored award, including the roles and responsibilities of the RA and the CGA analyst, how to complete an accrual journal as part of a Closeout, and how a Closeout is submitted in BFS. Learning Objectives: • Identify the steps and timeline to closeout an award • Identify the steps to complete the financial... More >
Berkeley Construction Innovation Day
Conference/Symposium | November 1 | 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | B110 Blum Hall
David Trejo, Professor, OSU "Concrete Innovations"; Jim Lindeman, Loqust "Time-space scheduling"; Alan Pumklin, Catepillar "Autonomous Vehicles in Construction"; Iris Tommelein and John Gambatese, UC Berkeley and OSU "Mistake-proofing and Prevention through Design"; Sabrina Odah,, Suffolk Construction " Leveraging Technology for Innovation in Commercial Construction"; Phil Lorenzo, StructionSite "Reality Capture and Applied AI in Construction"; Bill Ibbs, Professor, UC Berkeley "Loss of Productivity Standards"
Panel Discussion, "Implementing Innovation in a Company or Agency"
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
The Berkeley Construction Innovation Day is to bring together Cal alums and contractors, designers, owners, and other construction-related parties, to identify and reflect on innovations shaping our industry. See details of the agenda and registration at https://lnkd.in/gUiiTc6
Essig Brunch Seminar: Entomology - insects, arachnids, and other arthopods
Seminar | October 4 – December 13, 2019 every Friday with exceptions | 10-11 a.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 1101 (UCMP "fishbowl")
See website for current speaker and topic
Essig Museum of Entomology
Weekly seminar series focused on insect ecology, evolution, behavior, and other research topics.
Quantum Many-Body Seminar: Classical and quantum walks: analogies and differences and a bouquet of surprises
Seminar | November 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Alberto Grunbaum, University of California, Berkeley
This is the second part of the talk. I will give an ab-initio description of "Quantum walks" comparing them to classical walks. Both similarities and differences will be stressed.
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | November 1 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Nadia Qabazard
Fit some fun and fitness into your day with these free, beginner dance classes. Zumba will be 9/6, Samba will be 10/4, Hula / Polynesian will be 11/1, and Zumba / Samba will be 12/6. No partner required. Comfortable clothing and athletic shoes recommended.
Fellowship Conference + Housewarming Party
Conference/Symposium | November 1 | 12:30-4:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room
Join us for Ted-style talks from our 2019 Human Rights Center Fellows on human rights in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and California. Keynote at 4pm from Dr. Liz Barnert on El Salvador. Come for all or part of the day.
RSVP:Tinyurl.com/HRCFELLOWSHIP2019
With special thanks to Dr. Thomas J. White for making the fellowships possible and to the Full Circle Fund for
supporting two... More >
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond
Seminar | November 1 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, The Hogan Room, 521
Jelena Notaros, Ph.D. Student and Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This talk will present recent advances in integrated optical phased array architectures, results, and applications.
FinTech Legal Workshop
Workshop | November 1 | 1-6 p.m. | Charles Schwab
211 Main St, San Francisco, CA 94105
FinTech Legal is a half-day workshop designed to provide FinTech entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys, and other professionals with a general introduction to the unique and sometimes counter-intuitive ways that finance innovation is regulated in the United States. In addition to an overview of the basic structure of U.S. bank regulation and the key government regulators, the program will examine... More >
Imaging the Brain at High Spatiotemporal Resolution: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | November 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Na Ji, UC Berkeley, Physics
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Physics has long employed optical methods to probe and manipulate matter on scales from the infinitesimal to the immense. To understand the brain, we need to monitor physiological processes of single synapses as well as neural activity of a large number of networked neurons.
Optical microscopy has emerged as an ideal tool in this quest, as it is capable of imaging neurons distributed over... More >
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Workshop | November 1 | 2-4 p.m. | 12 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) | Note change in date and time
Venicia Slotten, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
A Scanning Electron Microscope is a form of microscopy that uses focused beams of electrons to reveal the surface topography of a specimen.
Registration Info: Workshops cost $50 for non-ARF affiliated researchers. It is free for ARF researchers.
Hitachi TM 1000 SEM
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Constructing the Airy Sheet Using Brownian Last Passage Percolation II
Seminar | November 1 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Milind Hegde, UC Berkeley
We will present the recent construction of the Airy sheet by Dauvergne, Ortmann, and Virag. In the first talk we will prove the novel extension of the RSK correspondence at the center of their approach, which relates last passage values in a Brownian environment to last passage values in the environment of the Airy line ensemble. Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00309.pdf
MENA Salon: Religious Freedom in the Middle East and Beyond
Workshop | November 1 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Every Friday the CMES hosts an informal guided discussion of current events in the Middle East and North Africa, open to all.
On 23 September, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed released a report on the “Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance.” The report notes the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide, pointing to the fatal attacks on synagogues in... More >
Composition Colloquium: Cygnus Ensemble
Colloquium | November 1 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
https://www.cygnusensemble.com/
ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges
Seminar | November 1 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Michael Buckland
How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Colloquium | November 1 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Ling Hon Lam, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
David Marno, Associate Professor of English, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In his book The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China, Ling Hon Lam gives an original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the... More >
Learning for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficiency and Safety of Autonomous Transportation Systems
Seminar | November 1 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Fei Mao, University of Connecticut
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of Connecticut's Fei Miao will present Learning for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficiency and Safety of Autonomous Transportation Systems at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Fei Mao
Heavy Metal Chelation: Applications in Industry and Medicine
Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Justin Wilson, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Heavy metal ions are typically considered to be detrimental to human health and are therefore considered to be a nuisance in both industrial and medicinal settings. The proper control of these ions via chelation, however, can engender them with beneficial applications in both regards. In this talk, I will discuss our group’s efforts to design chelators for heavy metal ions spanning the s-, d-,... More >
Logic Colloquium: The Connes Embedding Problem and Model Theory
Colloquium | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Isaac Goldbring, UC Irvine
The Connes Embedding Problem is the following problem in von Neumann algebras: does every tracial von Neumann algebra embed into an ultrapower of a particular von Neumann algebra, the so-called hyperfinite $II_1$ factor $R$. After the work of many mathematicians, this problem has been shown to have equivalent reformulations in C*-algebras, operator systems, quantum information theory, free... More >
Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg Theorem in Characteristic p
Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Joseph Stahl, UC Berkeley
The celebrated theorem of Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg says that for a smooth algebra $R$ over a ring $k$, the Hochschild homology algebra $HH_*(R/k)$ is isomorphic to the algebra of differential forms $\Omega _{R/k}^*$. Moreover, if $k$ is a $Q$-algebra, then there is a quasi-isomorphism at the level of complexes $HH(R/k)\simeq \bigoplus _i\Omega ^i_{R/k}[i]$, where the right hand side is viewed... More >
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Career Fair: sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists
Career Fair | November 2 | 12-5 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.), Enter at Maximino Martinez Commons 2520 Channing
Recruiters from CNN, The New York Times, NBC, Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED and many more media companies are seeking candidates for internships, fellowships and entry-level career positions. FREE REGISTRATION at https://journalism.berkeley.edu/student-groups/nabj/
FREE
All professionals and students from around the Bay Area are welcome to attend!. Registration opens October 1. Register online or by calling Pam Gleason at 510-642-3654, or by emailing Pam Gleason at pgleason@berkeley.edu by November 2.
All are welcome!
Reading: Jori Finkel
Reading - Nonfiction | November 2 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Arts journalist Jori Finkel (The New York Times and The Art Newspaper) introduces her new book It Speaks to Me, in which fifty celebrated artists from New York to New Delhi talk about the eye-opening and thought-provoking art that has inspired them. Highlights include David Hockney on Edgar Degas, Shirin Neshat on Alice Neel, Marina Abramovic on Umberto Boccioni, Ai Weiwei on a Shang Dynasty... More >
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Pine Needle Basketry with Judith Thomas
Workshop | November 3 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Judith Thomas, weaver and Waldorf handwork teacher will instruct students how to source materials and craft a pine needle basket. Learn how to work with pine needles to create a small coiled basket, using a needle and waxed linen to bind the bundles of needles together. A perfect activity for the fall. Pack a lunch to enjoy in the beautiful Garden setting during the break! All levels welcome.
$85 / $75 Garden Members
Monday, November 4, 2019
Graduate Student Seminar
Seminar | November 4 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Sanam Mozaffari, Roorda Lab; Vincent Nieto, Fleiszig-Evans Lab
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Seminar: Optimization Under Uncertainty for Design, Materials, and Large-Scale Computing
Seminar | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
James R. Stewart, Computational Sciences & Math Sandia National Laboratories
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
This presentation highlights the many ways that optimization is used to support multiscale, multiphysics modeling and simulation. Examples include design and topology optimization, as well as PDE-constrained optimization and Bayesian inference for estimating material properties or input model parameters. In the context of additive manufacturing, the materials themselves become part of the design... More >
speaker
Trade Lunch: "The Welfare Consequences of Urban Renewal: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment"
Seminar | November 4 | 12:05-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley
Combinatorics Seminar: Partition identities of Capparelli and Primc
Seminar | November 4 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jehanne Dousse, CNRS et Universite Lyon I
A partition of a positive integer n is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers whose sum is n. A Rogers-Ramanujan type identity is a theorem stating that for all n, the number of partitions of n satisfying some difference conditions equals the number of partitions of n satisfying some congruence conditions. In the 1980's, Lepowsky and Wilson established a connection between the... More >
Political Economy Seminar
Seminar | November 4 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Marco Tabellini, Professor, Harvard
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
Seminar 211, Economic History: Original Sin and the Great Depression
Seminar | November 4 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Christopher Meissner, UC Davis
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: A Survey of Bi-free Extremes
Seminar | November 4 | 3-5 p.m. | Evans Hall, 736 Evans
Jun-Chau Wang, University of Saskatchewan
We will review the recent results from the paper "Bi-free extreme values" (arXiv:1811.10007), and discuss further some open problems in bi-free harmonic analysis.
Differential Geometry Seminar: Minimal surfaces via Allen-Cahn
Seminar | November 4 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Christos Mantoulidis, MIT
We will survey the construction of minimal surfaces (critical points of the area functional) as limits of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation, $\epsilon ^2 \Delta u = u^3 - u$, with $\epsilon \to 0$. We will focus on Allen-Cahn solutions that arise from min-max constructions, and we'll discuss properties of the corresponding minimal surfaces. Part of this talk is joint work with Otis Chodosh.
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: On the Kudla-Rapoport conjecture
Seminar | November 4 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Chao Li, Columbia
The Kudla-Rapoport conjecture predicts a precise identity between the arithmetic intersection numbers of special cycles on unitary Rapoport-Zink spaces and the derivatives of local representation densities of hermitian forms. It is a key local ingredient to establish the arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula, relating the height of generating series of special cycles on Shimura varieties to the... More >
Anil Aswani — Optimization Hierarchy for Fair Statistical Decision Problems
Seminar | November 4 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 1174 Etcheverry Hall
Anil Aswani, University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Abstract: Data-driven decision-making has drawn scrutiny from policy makers due to fears of potential discrimination, and a growing literature has begun to develop fair statistical techniques. However, these techniques are often specialized to one model context and based on ad-hoc arguments, which makes it difficult to perform theoretical analysis. This paper develops an optimization hierarchy... More >
The Lord of the Rings: structural mechanism of a DNA polymerase sliding clamp loader
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Brian Kelch, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The sliding clamp Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) is a central regulator of genomic integrity and cell proliferation pathways in all eukaryotes. PCNA is a ring-shaped complex that encircles and slides along DNA, serving as an essential cofactor of DNA polymerases and scores of other proteins to coordinate DNA replication with numerous cellular processes. PCNA is installed on DNA by a... More >
Winners and Losers?: The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Colloquium | November 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; Department of Economics and Goldman School of Public Policy
(Joint with Sandra Black and Jeffrey Denning)
College admissions processes are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the gains to students gaining access and the losses to students losing access. We use the... More >
Redesigning CMOS Electronics: What, Why and How?
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Cory Hall, Wang Room (531 Cory Hall)
Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
We have devised an effective heterogeneous integration strategy based on mature and reliable CMOS technology only to integrate hybrid materials and diverse set of devices for multi-disciplinary applications.
The Technology Politics of Mechanizing Crops: Insights from California Agriculture, 1945-1985
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Morgan Lounge
Patrick Baur, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley; Alastair Iles, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Food Institute, Center for Diversified Farming Systems
This is the age of agricultural robots. Media outlets from the Los Angeles Times to The New Yorker are publishing articles on new robotic advances. The contemporary fascination with robots, artificial intelligence, ‘big data’, and other Silicon-Valley-inspired technology is rooted in a long history of framing automation as natural and inevitable. For the past century, the... More >
Seminar 271, Development: Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom-Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Systoles, Special Lagrangians, and Bridgeland stability conditions
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Yu-Wei Fan, UC Berkeley
We propose a question that naturally generalizes Loewner’s torus systolic inequality from the perspective of Calabi-Yau geometry: Is the square of the minimum volume of special Lagrangians in a Calabi-Yau manifold bounded above by the total vol- ume of the Calabi-Yau? We introduce the categorical analogues of systole and volume in terms of Bridgeland stability conditions, which enables us to... More >
Analysis and PDE Seminar: A tale of two resolvent estimates
Seminar | November 4 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University
I will discuss two new results concerning the best of resolvent estimates and the worst of resolvent estimates. In the former, case, that of nontrapping obstacles or metrics, we have obtained (in joint work with Galkowski and Spence) optimal, dynamically determined, constants in the standard non-trapping estimate for the (chopped off) resolvent. In the latter case, that of obstacles or metrics... More >
Commercializing Advanced Materials: SLAM Seminar Series
Seminar | November 4 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Ajay Virkar, Co-Founder, Chief Technological Officer, C3Nano
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
In this talk, C3Nano’s progression from a university spin-out into a fully operational advanced materials company with the industry’s leading technology, a global foot-print, and a successful track record for commercialization of various products, will be discussed.
Ajay completed BS in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois and his PhD under the guidance of... More >
Worker's Rights and the Promise of Medicare for All
Panel Discussion | November 4 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Laurel Lucia, Healthcare Program Director, UC Berkeley Labor Center; Dr. Uma Tadepalli, MD, Member, Physicians for a National Health Plan; Michelle Segretario, Member, United Auto Workers 2865 & Department of Italian Studies; Jasmine Ruddy, Medicare for All Team Lead, California Nurses Association; Melvin Mackay, President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10
Perrie Briskin, Head Steward, United Auto Workers 2865 & Haas School of Business & School of Public Health
Join UAW 2865 for an exciting panel with healthcare experts, healthcare workers, and workers in other industries on what healthcare reform would mean for workers!
ATC Lecture — Guy Hoffman, "Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics"
Colloquium | November 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Guy Hoffman, Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Center for New Media, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Arts + Design
As we continue to develop social robots designed for connectedness, we struggle with paradoxes related to authenticity, transience, and replication. In this talk, I will attempt to link together 15 years of experience designing social robots with 100-year-old texts on transience, replication, and the fear of dying. Can there be meaningful relationships with robots who do not suffer natural decay?... More >
Heart Chan Meditation
Course | September 23 – November 11, 2019 every Monday | 7-8:30 p.m. | Anthony Hall
Heart Chan, Heart Chan at Berkeley
Heart Chan
Start the journey for Heart Chan Meditation
seeking harmony of mind, body, spirit
gain true wisdom and joy from your inner self
make meditation part of your modern daily life.
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Molecular and epigenetic programs defining tumors-specific T cell differentiation and dysfunction
Seminar | November 5 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Andrea Schietinger, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Making the Complex Simple: Exploring New Amine Chemical Space via Unusual Reactive Intermediates
Seminar | November 5 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Jen Schomaker, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison
The need for efficient access to molecules of importance to human health drives the development of innovative synthetic methods. Our group has had a long-standing interest in exploring stereochemically complex molecular space not well-represented in typical drug screening libraries. This had led to new methods to transform simple precursors into densely functionalized amines, azetidines,... More >
Seminar 217, Risk Management: CANCELLED
Seminar | November 5 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: CANCELED, UC Berkeley
LinkedIN II: Maximize Your Online Professional Presence
Workshop | November 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 198 University Hall
Make sure your LinkedIN profile is serving you by understanding what your readers look for. This hands-on workshop is a chance to incorporate tips from a UC Berkeley recruiter. We encourage you to bring a tablet, laptop or smart phone.
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin: A Reservation Wedge Approach"
Presentation | November 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
This workshop consists of one-hour informal presentations on topics related to macroeconomics and international finance, broadly defined. The presenters are UC Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and visitors.
** MUST RSVP**
RSVP by November 1.
Matrix On Point: The Trump Impeachment
Panel Discussion | November 5 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, Berkeley Law; Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy
With the 2020 general elections looming, the nominee for the Democratic Party undetermined, and a defiant and volatile president at the helm, the impeachment inquiry is sure to heat up in the weeks ahead. Join us on November 5 for a discussion about the Trump impeachment featuring Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law, and Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy.
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Professor Robert Reich
Grief, Loss and the Healing Process During the Holidays (BEUHS186)
Workshop | November 5 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Cheryl Krauter, MFT
Be Well at Work - Elder Care Program
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This can be a tough time of year for those who are dealing with aging and illness ... not only for them but for their partners, families, friends and communities. The pressure to celebrate, to be happy and full of joy can be exhausting. How do we meet grief and loss with authenticity and compassion so that the... More >
Narrow Path to a New NAFTA: Will USMCA Pass in 2019, 2020, or Never?
Colloquium | November 5 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Christopher Sands, Johns Hopkins University
Canadian Studies Program (CAN)), Public Law and Policy Program
The United States Mexico Canada Agreement was negotiated before the 2018 Mexican elections, then approved by the Mexican Congress. In 2019 Canadians went to the polls and re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau whose Liberals are credited with managing relations with Washington and salvaging Canada's market aceess to the United States and Mexico. Now, as the US Congress considers when to start... More >
Space Physics Seminar
Seminar | September 17 – December 3, 2019 every Tuesday | 1-2 p.m. | 325 LeConte Hall
H-1B Workshop
Workshop | November 5 | 2-4 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
The main focus of this workshop are general H-1B eligibility requirements, eligible professional occupations, application process, and timing concerns.
Topics covered:
H-1B eligibility criteria
Types of jobs appropriate for H-1B
Minimum salary requirements
Employer's role
Application timing challenges
Options for F/J students/scholars
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Family Formation and Crime
Seminar | November 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Maxim Massenkoff, University of California, Berkeley
New Directions in Bangladesh Studies: Recent Scholarship and New Publications
Panel Discussion | November 5 | 3-7 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor of English, UC Berkeley; Nusrat S. Chowdhury, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College; Tariq Omar Ali, Associate Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Charles Hirschkind, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Abhishek Kaicker, Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art History, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, Department of English, Masters of Development Practice, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of History
A panel discussion on recent scholarship on Bangladesh-related studies with Nusrat S. Chowdhury, Tariq Omar Ali, and Poulomi Saha.
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | November 5 | 3-4 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
Do you need to email a professor you've never met before to ask for their help, but you don't know where to start? Have you ever written a long email to a professor, only to receive no response, or not the one you hoped? If so, this workshop is for you! We will discuss how to present yourself professionally over email to faculty and other professionals ... More >
Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations Student Seminar: Semiclassical resolvent bound for compactly supported Hölder continuous potentials
Seminar | November 5 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Jacob Shapiro, ANU
We prove a weighted resolvent estimate for the semiclassical Schrödinger operator $-h^2 \Delta + V : L^2(\mathbb { R }^n) \to L^2(\mathbb { R }^n)$, $n \ge 3$. We assume the potential $V$ is compactly supported and α-Hölder continuous, $0< \alpha < 1$. The logarithm of the resolvent norm grows like $h^{-1-\frac {1-\alpha }{3 + \alpha }}\log (h^{-1})$ as the semiclassical parameter $h \to 0^+$.... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Finiteness conditions for local cohomology modules
Seminar | November 5 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Robin Hartshorne, UC Berkeley
The local cohomology modules of a module M over a commutative noetherian ring A with supports in an ideal I are rarely finitely generated. I will describe two recent theories, that of D-modules in char. 0, and F-modules in char. p >0, where the additional structure allows one to factor a module into a composition series with simple quotients. This has applications, for example, in studying the... More >
What Drives Native American Poverty?
Colloquium | November 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Shorb House, Latinx Research Center | Canceled
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University
Center for Native American Issues Research on, Native American Studies, Native American Student Development, American Indian Graduate Program, Native American Studies Library, American Indian Graduate Student Association
Mathematics of deep learning?: Neyman Seminar
Seminar | November 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Roman Vershynin, University of California, Irvine
Deep learning is a rapidly developing area of machine learning, which uses artificial neural networks to perform learning tasks. Although mathematical description of neural networks is simple, theoretical explanation of spectacular performance of deep learning remains elusive. Even the most basic questions about remain open. For example, how many different functions can a neural network compute?... More >
Revisiting dry deposition of trace gases and particles in the atmosphere
Seminar | November 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Delphine Farmer, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
Dry deposition is a key process that removes trace gases and particles from the atmosphere, and thus one factor that controls the atmospheric lifetime of pollutants and short-lived climate forcers. In fact, dry deposition is the single largest component of uncertainty in our understanding of aerosol effects on climate. Despite its importance, dry deposition of trace gases and particles is poorly... More >
Seminar 281, International Trade and Finance: "Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences: New Evidence from Multinational Firms”
Seminar | November 5 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Vanessa Alviarez, Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia
We use data on the cross-border operations of multinational enterprises (MNE) to decompose cross-country differences in output-per worker into differences in ‘country embedded factors’ vs. differences in ‘aggregate firm know-how’. By ‘country-embedded factors’ we refer to the components of productivity that are internationally immobile and impact all firms inside a country, such as institutions,... More >
Physics and AI: Achieving transferability in deep learning from minimal observations
Seminar | November 5 | 5-6 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Isaac Tamblyn
Computational Materials at Berkeley
Computational Materials at Berkeley is hosting a seminar by Isaac Tamblyn tomorrow, November 5th, at 5pm in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Dr. Tamblyn is a Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and his group works at the cutting edge of machine learning for materials discovery. There will be free food and refreshments available.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: The reach of an algebraic variety
Seminar | November 5 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Madeleine Weinstein, UC Berkeley
The reach of a real algebraic variety is its distance to its medial axis, the locus of points in Euclidean space that have more than one nearest point on the variety. The reach is important in topological data analysis because it determines the density of sample points needed to compute the persistent homology of a variety. We discuss algebraic properties of bottlenecks and curvature, which... More >
Global Macroeconomic Trends: Catalysts and Implications Expert Panel
Panel Discussion | November 5 | 5:30-8:30 p.m. | 505 UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.)
Mohsin Hafeez, MBA, CFP®, Adjunct Faculty, Finance and Macroeconomics, UC Berkeley Extension; Tushar Yadava, BS, MA, Director and Strategist, Blackrock, Director and Strategist, Blackrock; Gary Schlossberg, BS, MSc, Vice President & Senior Economist, Wells Fargo Asset Management; Brian Leach, Senior Vice President, Fixed Income Strategies, PIMCO; John Savarese, MD, MBA, Managing Partner, BAIATEQ, LLC
Brett Yokom, Instructor, UC Berkeley Extension
Countdown 2020: Is the economic recovery facing a bump in the road, or hitting a wall?
A year before a historic Presidential election, our nation looks askance. It’s been the longest, albeit tepid, recovery in several decades,... More >
2019 Innovators@Cal: Fostering Innovation Across UC Berkeley
Conference/Symposium | November 5 | 6-8:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Hosted by Big Ideas, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, CITRIS Tech for Social Good, Fung Institute, Women in Tech Initiative (WITI), BHEP (Haas), and The Foundry, Innovators@Cal is an exciting event which fosters collaboration across the UC Berkeley campus. If you have an idea or startup, are looking to form or join a team, or are interested in the entrepreneurship resources available -... More >
Pre-proposal Writing Workshop: Storytelling for Innovation
Workshop | November 5 | 6-7:30 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
Receive guidance and feedback on how to effectively craft your Big Ideas pre-proposal. Big Ideas advisors will walk you through every element that is required in your 3-page pre-proposal submission and any answer questions you have.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Community Convening - Integrated Action Civics
Workshop | November 6 | 9 a.m.-2 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project
RAPDP - Intermediate - HR for the RA
Workshop | November 6 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Synopsis: An intermediate workshop that explores the types of research appointments used on sponsored awards, as well as the compliance issues associated with PI effort and how the Effort Reporting System is used to track and report effort. Learning Objectives: • Define Effort and explain the appointment types that are used with research funds • Distinguish between the most common types of... More >
Microtubule dynamics: not only at the tips
Seminar | November 6 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Antonina Roll-Mecak, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health USA
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: Topic TBA
Seminar | November 6 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | TBA Haas School of Business
Johannes Stroebel, Stern School of Business; New York University
Joint with Haas Finance Seminar
Combinatorics Reading Seminar: Introduction to Macdonald polynomials
Seminar | November 6 | 11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Freddie Huang, UC Berkeley
Macdonald polynomials generalize many important bases of the ring of symmetric functions, including Schur polynomials. We will define Macdonald polynomials using Macdonald's original construction, and state some basic results about them.
TSUJIMOTO ENDOWED LECTURE: "Essential Roles of Plant Lipids in Photosynthesis and Plant Resilience"
Seminar | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Christoph Benning, Michigan State University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Christoph Benning is the Director of the Michigan State University Plant Research Laboratory and a University Distinguished Professor. He received his Masters at Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet in Germany and his Ph.D. at Michigan State. Research in the Benning laboratory focuses on lipid metabolism in photosynthetic organisms. One area of particular interest is the assembly and maintenance of the... More >
Inequality and Health across the Life Course: Gradual Change or Punctuated Equilibrium?: A Demography Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Michal Engelman, Professor, Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Population Science, Department of Demography
As an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA), Michal Engelman studies the dynamics of population aging and health across the life course, with particular emphasis on early and mid-life factors that influence health disparities at older ages.
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Speaker TBA: Title TBA
Seminar | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
TBA
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 >
Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Rapid Associative Learning: Redwood Seminar
Seminar | November 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Aaron Milstein, Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Neurosurgery
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
How do neural circuits in the brain accomplish rapid learning? When foraging for food in a previously unexplored environment, animals store memories of landmarks based on as few as one single view. Also, animals remember landmarks and navigation decisions that eventually lead to food, which requires that the brain associate events with delayed outcomes. I will present evidence that a particular... More >
Jennifer Davis, “Uncovering Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis: From Molecular to Microenvironmental Signals”: Bioengineering Department Seminar
Seminar | November 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Jennifer Davis, University of Washington
Jennifer Davis, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Bioengineering, University of Washington
...Our lab seeks to understand how cell and tissue forces are sensed and transduced into changes in cell geometry, differentiation, and proliferation...we anticipate this work will pioneer new mechanics-based therapeutics that reverse maladaptive cardiac architecture back to normal. More >
Neural control of affective spillover
Colloquium | November 6 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Regina Lapate, Postdoctoral Fellow, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Institute of Personality and Social Research
A hallmark of human social experience is the frequent exposure to continuously varying emotional events. Optimal functioning in everyday life therefore requires the ability to efficiently override reflexive emotional responses and prevent the spillover of affect to people or situations unrelated to the source of emotion. How does our brain maintain context-sensitive emotional responses? In this... More >
Transitioning Back After Baby Bonding Leave (BEUHS374)
Workshop | November 6 | 12:10-2 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Ed Center
Leslie Bell, Ph.D., Employee Assistance; Mary Kelly, Disability Management; Craig Mielcarski, LCSW, Be Well at Work; Cori Evans, Wellness and Breastfeeding Support Program; Gabe Schmidt, Healthcare Facilitator
The transition for parent’s returning to work after baby bonding leave ends can feel overwhelming as we contend with a vast array of emotions, concerns, and limitations while simultaneously juggling a new work/life balance. Join us for this panel workshop which will focus on understanding both positive and negative emotions related to this transition, how to establish boundaries at work, what... More >
BLISS Seminar: Distributed Stochastic Optimization with Variance Reduction and Gradient Tracking
Seminar | November 6 | 3-4 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Yuejie Chi, CMU
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
There is an increasing need to perform large-scale machine learning and optimization over distributed networks, e.g. in the context of multi-agent learning and federated optimization. It is well recognized that, a careful balance of local computation and global communication is necessary in the distributed setting for empirical risk minimization. In this talk, we first consider a natural... More >
Microbial and Geophysical Insights into the Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon
Colloquium | November 6 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
Mark Waldrop, United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Northern latitude soils play a critical role in regulating the Earth’s climate through the production and consumption of greenhouse gases. Climate change is predicted to cause widespread permafrost thaw, with a potential release of greenhouse gases that results in a large positive feedback to the climate system. Because these systems are below zero for most of the year, the functioning of... More >
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | November 6 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
Need to write a grant proposal? This workshop is for you! You'll get a head start on defining your research question, developing a lit review and project plan, presenting your qualifications, and creating a realistic budget.
Open to all UC Berkeley students.
Berkeley Number Theory Learning Seminar: Example: the 5-part of real quadratic fields for large $q$, and Implications of Homological Stability
Seminar | November 6 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Sander Mack-Crane and Roy Zhao, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley Number Theory Learning Seminar: Implications of Homological Stability
Seminar | November 6 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall | Canceled
Roy Zhao, University of California, Berkeley
EECS Colloquium: Machine Learning: a New Approach to Drug Discovery
Colloquium | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Daphne Koller, insitro
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Modern medicine has given us effective tools to treat some of the most significant and burdensome diseases. At the same time, it is becoming consistently more challenging to develop new therapeutics: clinical trial success rates hover around the mid-single-digit range; the pre-tax R&D cost to develop a new drug (once failures are incorporated) is estimated to be greater than $2.5B; and the rate... More >
Biological Control Systems: The Future of Engineering In Medicine
Colloquium | November 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware
Department of Chemical Engineering
The mammalian organism maintains stable, efficient and “near-optimal” performance and homeostasis.
Department of Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology Seminar: Metabolic limitations of cancer cell proliferation
Seminar | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Kivanc Birsoy, Rockefeller
RTMP Seminar: The Quantum DELL System
Seminar | November 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Peter Koroteev, University of California, Berkeley
We propose quantum Hamiltonians of the double elliptic many-body integrable system (DELL) and study its spectrum. These Hamiltonians are certain elliptic functions of coordinates and momenta. Our results provide quantization of the classical DELL system which was previously found in the string theory literature. The eigenfunction for the N-body model is conjectured to be a properly normalized... More >
Exploring Plantation Worlds: Towards Ethnographic Collaboration
Colloquium | November 6 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Center for Ethnographic Research, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of International Studies
In this talk Tania Li describes the rewards and challenges of team-based ethnographic research drawing on work she carried out in Indonesia’s oil palm plantations together with her collaborator Pujo Semedi and around 100 students from their two universities (Toronto, Gadjah Mada).
Rethinking Nikkô and the Tokugawa Culture of Light
Colloquium | November 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Timon Screech, University of London SOAS
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
It is well known that Tokugawa Ieyasu died in 1616 and was deified. It was determined that he should be a kami (Shinto god) that existed as an avatar of a Buddha, the Medicine Buddha being selected. There were geomantic reasons for these steps.
Ieyasu’s body was then disinterred and relocated to Nikkô, a geomantically important site.
The modest Shinto-Buddhist precincts demolished and rebuilt... More >
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory (Departmental Seminar): "Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India"
Seminar | November 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Paul Niehaus, UC San Diego
Metabolic limitations of cancer cell proliferation
Seminar | November 6 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 101 Morgan Hall
Kivanc Birsoy, Rockefeller University
Topology Seminar: Integral-affine spheres
Seminar | November 6 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Philip Engel, University of Georgia
I will discuss joint work with S. Filip on the structure of the moduli space of integral-affine structures on the two-sphere, and with V. Alexeev on the relationship of this moduli space to K3 surfaces.
2019 Fall Teacher Leadership Invitational: Session 3 - Action Research Showcase
Workshop | November 6 | 4:30-7 p.m. | Berkeley Way West
California Reading & Literature Project
CRLP's Fall 2019 Teacher Leadership Series will focus on previewing one of CRLP's latest PD options: Learning How English Works. Topics will include Protocols for Analyzing Student Work Samples, Grammar Mini-Lessons in Designated ELD, and Exploring the Consultancy Protocol for Improving Team Meetings
Wellness Wednesday: Bystander Intervention
Workshop | November 6 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | 260 Mulford Hall
Wellness Wednesday: Community Wellness
Bystander Intervention Training
A Peer Educator from the Bears that Care Initiative sponsored by the Center for Support and Intervention will be leading a bystander intervention training. Following the CARE model this training will teach you to identify potentially harmful situations and intervene effectively and safely.
Bystander intervention is... More >
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Occupational Noise, Measurement, and Control
Workshop | November 7 – 9, 2019 every day | 7:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. | Richmond Field Station
1301 S 46th St, Richmond, CA 94804
Michael Cooper CIH, CSP, MPH, Industrial Hygienist Consultant; Stephen Hemperly MS, CIH, CSP, CLSO, FAIHA, Advisory Industrial Hygienist, Western Digital Corporation; David Michael Moore CIH, Industrial Hygienist, Entrinzic Global Solutions
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
This hands-on workshop is designed as an introduction to the basic concepts of occupational noise, noise measurement, and noise control. It will provide an overview of noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), identification of hazardous noise exposure, and strategies to reduce and mitigate noise exposure risk. Learners will also explore noise standards, the components of a quality Hearing Conservation... More >
BPM 208 Accomplishing More for Managers
Workshop | November 7 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | #24 University Hall
This workshop is for UC Berkeley Staff. The content provides knowledge and skills to create accountability, manage competing priorities, and enhance team communication and productivity.
Seasonal Tea Blending Workshop for Fall
Workshop | November 7 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
No matter what phase of life we are in, the varying weather temperatures of the Bay Area and typical patterns of the season can challenge our immune systems. Learn how to connect with the plants around you in order to support the seasonal transition.
In this class you will learn -
Great herbs for Fall in the UCB garden
10 herbs that are great for Fall + the Lungs
How to pick the herbs best... More >
$40 / $35 UCBG Members
3-Manifold Seminar: Algorithms in 3-Manifold Theory
Seminar | November 7 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
James Dix, UC BERKELEY
Following a survey paper of Lackenby, we explore the complexity classes of various problems in 3-manifold theory. Examples include unknot detection being in NP and co-NP, link genus being NP-hard, and the homeomorphism problem being computable. We reference conjectures in computer science about various complexity classes to suggest which questions may have more efficient algorithms and which ones... More >
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
Seminar | November 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Nick Ryan, Professor, Yale University
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come... More >
Personal Investments and Your Financial Future (BEUHS369)
Workshop | November 7 | 12:10-2:10 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
John Cleary, Financial Advisor, West Investment Services; Linda Moran, V.P. Sr. Private Client Advisor, Wealth Management Group
Join us to learn about the many tools and strategies available that can help you achieve your financial goals.
IB Seminar: Solid strategy, mysterious mechanism: integrative approaches to unravelling insect freeze tolerance
Seminar | November 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Brent Sinclair, Western University
Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar
Seminar | November 7 | 12:45-2:05 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Troup Howard
Microsoft Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts
Course | November 7 | 1:30-4 p.m. | S300T Haas School of Business
This course details the process by which large data sets are organized, formatted, summarized, and interactively manipulated using Tables, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. Learning Objectives * Convert data ranges into Tables to organize and analyze values using single and multi-field sorts, filters, and totals. * Create Structured Reference Calculations using formulas and functions within... More >
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Evidence from Repeated School Admission Reforms"
Seminar | November 7 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Information routing in the hippocampus
Seminar | November 7 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Tom McHugh, Riken Institute, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
ESPM Seminar Series, Fall 2019: Peter Moyle
Seminar | November 7 | 3:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Peter Moyle, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis, will present: "Reconciling California's Delta: Water for Fish and People." Coffee will be available before the talk at 2:30PM in 139 Mulford; meet the speaker after the talk in 139 Mulford Hall.
TDPS Speaker Series | An Invitation to Kabuki: A History and Demonstration of Kabuki with Kyozo Nakamura
Presentation | November 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)
Kyozo Nakamura, Kabuki Actor & Japan Cultural Envoy
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Agency of Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Join us for a dynamic lecture and demonstration with veteran onnagata (actor specializing in female roles), Kyozo Nakamura. Mr. Nakamura will introduce the basics of male and female acting in kabuki and talk about his own path to becoming a seasoned actor.
Free
CRG Thursday Forum Series: Water and War: Environmental Justice in Flint, Detroit, and Northern California
Panel Discussion | November 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Beth Rose Middleton Manning; Michael Mascarenhas
Beth Rose Middleton Manning of UC Davis presents “Currents of Resistance: Water Quality/Quantity Struggles in Indigenous Northern California Homelands,” and Michael Mascarenhas of ESPM offers “Thirsty for Environmental Justice: Flint, Detroit, and the War over Michigan’s Water.”
Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Architectures with DNA
Seminar | November 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Cory Hall, Wang Room (531 Cory Hall)
Grigory Tikhomirov, Senior Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Is it possible to develop a new approach to building complex devices that combines the strengths of biomolecular self-assembly and systematic engineering? In this talk I will discuss recent work towards this goal using DNA as a nanoscale, programmable building block.
Christina Marsden Gillis Academic Lives Program: Love, Anarchy and Emma Goldman
Presentation | November 7 | 4:10-6 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, Stebbins Lounge
Dr. Candace Falk, Emma Goldman Papers
Author Dr. Candace Falk has spent years researching and editing books on Emma Goldman, training hundreds of students in the art of historical research and collaborating with them to create the largest curated collection of Emma Goldman’s papers in the world.
Goldman was deported in 1919 after almost two years of prison for speaking out against the laws that mandated military service. She was... More >
RSVP by calling Front Desk at 5106424175, or by emailing Front Desk at womensfacultyclub@gmail.com by November 6.
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Hidden Algebraic Structures in Topology
Colloquium | November 7 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Sergei Gukov, California Institute of Technology
Which 4-manifold invariants can detect the Gluck twist? And, which 3-manifold invariants can detect the difference between surgeries on mutant knots? What is the most powerful topological quantum field theory (TQFT)? Guided by questions like these, we will look for new invariants of 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds. Traditionally, a construction of many such invariants and TQFTs involves a... More >
Book Talk - On the Outside: Prisoner Reentry and Reintegration: David Harding and Underground Scholars
Reading - Nonfiction | November 7 | 5:10-6 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Social Research Library
David Harding, professor of Sociology (UC Berkeley), will discuss his recent book exploring what happens to formerly incarcerated people as they seek work, housing and community. Mac Hoang and Michael Cerda-Jara, Berkeley Underground Scholars, will join Professor Harding, sharing their research on this crucial topic.
The Social Research Library is ADA accessible, if you might require any other disability-related accommodations, please contact us as soon as possible.
Image of book jacket, On the Outside.
Innovation Management Panel event - November 7th, 2019
Panel Discussion | November 7 | 6:30-9:30 p.m. | Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange
425 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Joe Boggio, Vice President, Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange; Sandy Carter, Vice President - Public Sector Partners and Programs, AWS; Diego Dugatkin, Vice President - Product Management, Adobe; Michael Spiegelman, Vice President - Global Product Innovation, Netflix
Darek DeFreece, Managing Director, UC Berkeley New Ventures
UC Berkeley Extension is thrilled to welcome four thought leaders for a unique Innovation Management panel event at Capgemini - San Francisco!
Join us on November 7 at 6:30pm and meet with fantastic panelists who will share their experience in managing creative teams and leading innovation initiatives in their organizations... More >
$15
