All events
Sunday, March 5, 2017
California Transportation Planning Conference
Conference/Symposium | March 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Walnut Creek Marriott
2355 North Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), in partnership with the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at University of California, Berkeley present the: 2017 California Transportation Planning Conference, Partnering for Sustainable Transportation: Meeting the Challenge Now and Into the Future.
This three-day conference will provide attendees the opportunity to interact... More >
This conference is open to all. We want to especially extend an invitation to those associated with Caltrans (employees, partners, affiliates) as well as those involved in the development and planning of transportation around the state of California.
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
Lacrosse vs. St. Joseph's
Sport - Intercollegiate - Lacrosse | March 5 | 12 p.m. | Memorial Stadium
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Lacrosse hosts St. Joseph's at Memorial Stadium.
Baseball vs. Gonzaga
Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | March 5 | 1:05 p.m. | Evans Field
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Baseball hosts Gonzaga at Evans Diamond.
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 >
Polaroid Stories: TDPS Theater Production
Performing Arts - Theater | March 5 | 2-4 p.m. | Zellerbach Playhouse
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Based on real life stories of street kids, and drawing from Ovid’s Metamorphoses myths, Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories blends poetry and profanity to explore how young people pushed to the edge of society come to understand their lives amid anger, love both lost and found, violence, homelessness, ambition, and addiction.
Sicilia! (Sicily!) | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Italy, France, 1999
Film - Feature | March 5 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
FEATURING
Angela Nugara, Vittorio Vigneri, Carmelo Maddio, Gianni Buscarino,
Adapted from Elio Vittorini's banned 1939 novel Conversazione in Sicilia, Sicilia! combines political fable with Sicilian travelogue, structured around one man's return to his village after years of exile. As he encounters his mother and others, they recite tales of personal woe and of the island's collected history... 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
Takács Quartet: Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets
Performing Arts - Music | March 5 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
A momentous occasion! Following our tradition of exploring cycles of music in context, we present a cornerstone of classical music and one of humanity's greatest achievements.
starting at $72
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
King of Jazz | John Murray Anderson | United States, 1930
Film - Feature | March 5 | 4:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
New 4K Digital Restoration
FEATURING
Paul Whiteman, John Boles, Laura La Plante, Jeanette Loff,
Savor a special dinner at Babette following the screening on March 11. For more information and to make a reservation, email babettebam@gmail.com.
This new restoration brings back a song-and-dance classic that has long been available only in inferior copies. King of Jazz is “one of the most... 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
For more information and to make a reservation for dinner at Babette, email babettebam@gmail.com.
Les anges du péché (Angels of Sin) | Robert Bresson | France, 1943
Film - Feature | March 5 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Imported 35mm Print
FEATURING
Renée Faure, Jany Holt, Louise Sylvie, Mila Parély,
Bresson’s visual elegance and uncompromising narrative style are already in evidence in his first feature film, lending calm to its passionate religious ambiguities. The script, written by France’s distinguished playwright and novelist Jean Giraudoux, follows a sophisticated young woman, Anne-Marie, into the... 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
Balé Folclórico da Bahia: Herança Sagrada
Performing Arts - Dance | March 5 | 7 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
A rare opportunity to see Brazil's premiere dance and music ensemble. With Herança Sagrada (Sacred Heritage), the 32 dancers, instrumentalists, and singers of the acclaimed folkloric dance company Balé Folclórico da Bahia honor the African roots of Brazilian culture. Through elaborate choreography and costumes, the troupe explores the music and dance of the Candomblé religion, the sinuous martial... More >
starting at $30
Tickets go on sale August 9. Buy tickets by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Monday, March 6, 2017
Proving and Using Pseudorandomness
Workshop | March 6 – 10, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
One theme of this workshop will be how to leverage weak pseudorandomness properties, fooling simple classes of tests, in order to derive stronger pseudorandomness properties related to more complex tests. In the setting of additive combinatorics, what is the minimal set of tests that primes have to satisfy in order to guarantee that they contain arithmetic progressions (or other structures)? For... More >
New Topological States of Matter: Platform for Emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl Fermions
Colloquium | March 6 | 1 LeConte Hall
Zahid Hasan, Princeton & LBL
Simons Institute Workshop: Proving and Using Pseudorandomness, 3/6--3/10
Seminar | March 6 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Auditorium
Various, Various
One theme of this workshop will be how to leverage weak pseudorandomness properties, fooling simple classes of tests, in order to derive stronger pseudorandomness properties related to more complex tests. In the setting of additive combinatorics, what is the minimal set of tests that primes have to satisfy in order to guarantee that they contain arithmetic progressions (or other structures)? For... More >
Civil and Environmental Engineering Departmental Seminar: Performance-Based Engineering: From Earthquakes to Durability and Multi-Hazards
Seminar | March 6 | 10-11 a.m. | 542 Davis Hall
Madeleine Flint
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Responding to engineering challenges of the magnitude created by climate change requires bridging disciplinary divides in assessing structural performance. The PEER framework for performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) is one example of a decision-oriented approach that combines efficient treatment of uncertainty with advanced models for structural performance.
DCRP Lecture: Summer Gray
Lecture | March 6 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
MON, MAR 6, 11:00am in 112 Wurster Hall. Please join us for, "Holding Back the Tide: Coastal Infrastructure, Resilience, and Justice in Guyana and the Maldives," a lecture by Dr. Summer Gray
Europe at a Crossroads
Lecture | March 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Ruth Jacoby, Former Ambassador of Sweden
Institute of European Studies, Consulate-General of Sweden
Europe has arrived at a challenging juncture in its history, economics and politics. There is Brexit, growing right-wing, populist and anti-European movements in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, but also in core EU-countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, and France, as well as in the Nordic countries. Growth is still sluggish after the financial crisis in 2008-9, unemployment is high, and... More >
Seminar 251, Labor: “Migration, Commuting and Local Joblessness”
Seminar | March 6 | 12-2 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment) | Note change in date, time, and location
The Native and the Refugee
Presentation | March 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Malek Rasamny
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Please join the CMES for a talk by Malek Rasamny, a researcher, writer, filmmaker and programmer based in New York and Lebanon. Rasamny was a founding member of the Red Channels Film Collective and the LERFE space in Harlem, New York. He is the co-founder of The Native and the Refugee along with his collaborator Matt Peterson.
The Native and the Refugee is a multi-media film and research... More >
Graduate Student Seminar
Seminar | March 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Rachel Albert, O’Brein Lab; Paul Cullen, Flanagan Lab
The Politics of Impeachment, Presidential Election, and Prospects for Foreign Policy in South Korea
Colloquium | March 6 | 12 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Chung-in Moon, Distinguished University Professor, Yonsei University
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Berkeley APEC Study Center, Center for Korean Studies (CKS), East Asian Foundation
South Korea is mired in an imbroglio. Amidst the process of President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment, the 2017 presidential race has begun. Meanwhile, its foreign policy is in a total disarray. Whereas the Trump shock has produced an uncertain future for ROK-US alliance, inter-Korean relations hit rock bottom. Furthermore, China-South Korean relations soured over the issue of deployment of... More >
Differential Geometry Seminar: Ricci flow on manifolds with almost non-negative curvature operator
Seminar | March 6 | 1:10-2 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Richard Bamler, Berkeley
A celebrated result of Boehm and Wilking states that a Ricci flow starting from a metric whose curvature operator is everywhere positive definite preserves the property of positive curvature operator and converges, modulo rescaling, to a quotient of the round sphere. In contrast, the condition of almost non-negative curvature operator — for example the condition that its smallest eigenvalue is... More >
“Evolution and the Dynamics of Prosocial Behavior”: Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science/Computational Cognition
Colloquium | March 6 | 3 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Alexander Stewart, University College London
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Operators having bi-free central limit distributions
Seminar | March 6 | 3-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Wonhee Na, Texas A&M University
In this talk, I will discuss joint work with Ken Dykema. From a bi-free central limit distribution, we have the completely non-normal operator l(h) + l(h)* + i (r(k) + r(k)*) on a subspace of the full Fock space F(H) ( h, k being vectors in H). We will find the principal function of this operator and its spectrum and essential spectrum as an application.
Xin Guo - Some recent progress on Mean Field Games
Seminar | March 6 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Xin Guo, University of California Berkeley
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Mean Field Games (MFGs) is one of the most active research areas in stochastic controls and stochastic games, led by the pioneering works of Lasry and Lions (2007) and Huang, Malhame and Caines (2006). In this talk, I will provide a gentle introduction to this theory, with toy examples, together with some recent progress.
BLISS Seminar: Graph information ratio
Seminar | March 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Lele Wang, Stanford University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Inspired by a problem in joint source-channel coding, we introduce a new notion of similarity between graphs, termed graph information ratio. We discuss various properties of this measure, including in particular metric structure and partial ordering of graphs, an information ratio power inequality, relations to graph homomorphism, algebraic identities and inequalities, and more.
Revisiting the spliceosome
Seminar | March 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Hiten Madhani, University of California, San Francisco
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Chemistry
A Psychologist's Exile from Fascism: Renata Calabresi from Italy to New York
Lecture | March 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Patrizia Guarnieri, Professor of Cultural and Social History, University of Florence
Department of History, Department of Psychology
Fascism and the racial laws of 1938 dramatically changed the scientific research and the academic community. Guarnieri focuses on psychology, from its promising origins to the end of the WWII. Psychology was marginalized in Italy both by the neo-idealistic reaction against science, and fascism (unlike Nazism) with long- lasting consequences. Academics and young scholars were persecuted because... More >
Relaxing Bottlenecks for Fast Machine Learning
Seminar | March 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 306 Soda Hall
Christopher De Sa, Stanford University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I will describe the mindful relaxation approach, and demonstrate how it can be applied to a specific bottleneck (parallel overheads), problem (inference), and algorithm (asynchronous Gibbs sampling).
Corporate Governance Reform and the Toshiba Scandal: Did a New System Hide an Old Mess?
Colloquium | March 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Christina Ahmadjian, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
Steven Vogel, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
An ongoing financial reporting scandal has stunned and puzzled observers of Japanese corporate governance reform. Toshiba was one of the first companies to adopt so-called “US-style” corporate governance practices. How could a company that had seemed to think so carefully about good governance have ended up like this? Where was the board? This presentation considers the possibility that the... More >
Strindberg — In Photographic Images
Lecture | March 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 6415 Dwinelle Hall
Björn Meidal, Uppsala University
Björn Meidal is a professor of Comparative Literature at Uppsala University.
Seminar 271, Development: Mitigating the Risks of Financial Inclusion with Contract Terms: Evidence from Mexico
Seminar | March 6 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Aprajit Mahajan, UC Berkeley
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Asymptotic analysis of Fourier transform on the Heisenberg group when the vertical frequency tends to 0
Seminar | March 6 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Hajer Bahouri, Université Paris-Est Créteil
In this joint work with Jean-Yves Chemin and Raphael Danchin, we propose a new approach of the Fourier transform on the Heisenberg group. The basic idea is to take advantage of Hermite functions so as to look at Fourier transform of integrable functions as mappings on the set $\tilde {\mathbb H}^d=\mathbb N^d\times \mathbb N^d\times \mathbb R\setminus \{0\}$ endowed with a suitable distance $\hat... More >
Materialised Knowledge in Renaissance Art and Science: The Production and Representation of Flemish Scientific Instruments
Lecture | March 6 | 5 p.m. | 308A Doe Library
Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Faculty of Architecture in Hasselt University (Belgium)
Scientific instruments of the renaissance period well represent the concept of "materialised knowledge." They are carriers of ideas as well as very elegant and refined objects. The lecture will discuss astrolabes, globes, sundials and armillary spheres with a particular emphasis on the Flemish context: between c. 1525 and c. 1580 the university city of Louvain became Europe's most important... More >
Salesforce Info-Session
Information Session | March 6 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Alon Kama, VP of Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Interested in working at one of the most innovative companies in the world?
Join us for the Salesforce Infosession on Monday, March 6, at **5:30 PM** in the Wozniak Lounge. Meet Salesforce engineers & recruiters in person and learn about cloud computing, IoT, and more!
- ABOUT THE TALK -
Machine Learning and Data Science
Come listen to Alon Kama, VP of Engineering, as he speaks about what... More >
An Evening of Russian Poetry with Kirill Medvedev (in Russian)
Lecture | March 6 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Kirill Medvedev, Poet, Translator, Political Activist, and member of rock group Arkadii Kots
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Slavic Literature "Kruzhok", Townsend Center for the Humanities
Kirill Feliksevich Medvedev is a Russian poet, translator, and political activist, as well as member of the rock group Arkadii Kots. Join Medvedev for a reading of his poems and a general discussion on the current political climate in Russia. Born in Moscow, Medvedev’s work delves fiercely into the political apathy of contemporary Russian society and especially the country’s cultural... More >
LAEP Lecture: Maurice Cox
Lecture | March 6 | 6-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
MON, MAR 6. 6PM, 112 Wurster, Join LAEP for "WHY BLACK LANDSCAPES MATTER" with Maurice Cox, Planning Director for the City of Detroit.
Entrepreneurial Toastmasters Club Meeting
Meeting | June 6, 2016 – August 14, 2017 every Monday | 6:20-7:20 p.m. | 373 Soda Hall
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that develops communication and leadership skills through public speaking.
Arts + Design Mondays: Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini, with Tanya Zimbardo
Lecture | March 6 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Tanya Zimbardo is a contemporary art curator based in San Francisco. As the assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Zimbardo is currently curating the exhibitions Runa Islam: Verso and New Work: Kerry Tribe and co-curating Nam June Paik and Soundtracks. Zimbardo has organized and co-organized exhibitions and select screening programs at SFMOMA. Current... More >
Admission to this lecture is free.
ATC Lecture — Tanya Zimbardo, “Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini”: Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Lecture | March 6 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Barbo Osher Theater
Tanya Zimbardo, SFMOMA
Otto Piene, The Proliferation of the Sun, 1966-67, 2014 at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; photo: Jasmine Powell
Tanya Zimbardo is a contemporary art curator based in San Francisco. As the assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Zimbardo is currently curating the exhibitions Runa Islam: Verso and New Work: Kerry Tribe and co-curating Nam June Paik and... More >
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Proving and Using Pseudorandomness
Workshop | March 6 – 10, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
One theme of this workshop will be how to leverage weak pseudorandomness properties, fooling simple classes of tests, in order to derive stronger pseudorandomness properties related to more complex tests. In the setting of additive combinatorics, what is the minimal set of tests that primes have to satisfy in order to guarantee that they contain arithmetic progressions (or other structures)? For... More >
Garden Closed
Holiday | November 4, 2014 – December 5, 2017 the first Tuesday of the month every month | UC Botanical Garden
The garden is closed the first Tuesday of every month.
-Why is the Garden Closed one day a month?
For the safety of the public and the safety of the collection, the Garden’s Horticultural staff need one day per month to complete jobs that may pose safety risks to visitors, such as dropping tree limbs, renovating paths, or controlling pests.
-I’m only in Berkeley for one day from somewhere... More >
Berkeley Info Session
Information Session | March 7 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Learn more about OLLI's courses, lectures, and social programming and hear directly from the faculty about the courses and workshops they will be teaching.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m., program begins at 10:00 a.m. No need to RSVP!
UCMP Fossil Coffee: The wealth of fossils emerging with the new Panama Canal Project
Seminar | March 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 1101 (UCMP Fishbowl)
Jon Bloch, Florida Museum of Natural History
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Second Order Risk
Seminar | March 7 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Speaker: Peter Shepard, MSCI
Center for Risk Management Research
Abstract:
Managing a portfolio to a risk model can tilt the portfolio toward weaknesses of the model. As a result, the optimized portfolio acquires downside exposure to uncertainty in the model itself, what we call “second order risk.” We propose a risk measure that accounts for this bias. Studies of real portfolios, in asset-by-asset and factor model contexts, demonstrate that second order risk... More >
William G. Dauben Lecture: A Polymer Chemistry of Graphenes and Graphene Nanoribbons
Seminar | March 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Klaus Mullen, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
Carbon materials are of immense practical importance, but are often known as structurally ill-defined “black stuff” such as soot. Graphenes and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), their geometrically restricted cutouts, are new additions to the carbon family which are widely praised as multifunctional wonder materials and rich playgrounds for physicists. Indeed, graphenes hold enormous promise as... More >
The Berkeley Network Webinar Series: Effective Communications and Personal Branding
Seminar | March 7 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Roya Soleimani, Corporate Communications Manager at Google, Google
How do you tell your story? Roya Soleimani '07, Corporate Communications Manager at Google, is excited to share effective communication strategies that can help you refine your narrative - whether it's your personal story, or the history of your company. Storytelling and personal branding play an integral role in how we communicate. This session will outline ways you can best share your story... More >
StoryCon 2017: The Policy Puzzle
Conference/Symposium | March 7 | 12-4 p.m. | Alumni House
Every day, policy determines the rights and freedoms we exercise in our individual lives. As public health leaders, policy plays an integral part in influencing health and has the ability to improve lives. Storytelling is essential to the legislative process. Through storytelling, we can advocate for policy change to improve population health, secure grant money for our research and... More >
Register online or or by emailing StoryCon2017@gmail.com by March 7.
Calibrating the Chinese Citizen: Propaganda, E-Petitioning and Big Data-Driven Governance
Lecture | March 7 | 12 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Christian Göbel, Chinese Politics and Society, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
Kevin O'Brien, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
In China, the majority of city-level governments has set up websites
where citizen petitions and government responses can be reviewed by the general public. What is the political logic guiding the establishment of such open petitioning websites? Analyzing policy documents, government websites and open petitions, this paper argues that open petitioning websites represent a form of calibration of... More >
online petitioning website
Development Lunch:"Creating Partisans: New Political Parties and Societal Linkages in Bolivia and Ecuador"
Seminar | March 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Mathias Poertner
Department of Economics, CEGA
Participation without Democracy? Governance, Accountability and Control in Rwanda
Colloquium | March 7 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Jessica Piombo, Associate Professor, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
One of the Center for African Studies weekly sessions in our Spring 2017 Colloquium Series.
Jessica Piombo
Developing and Testing a New Measure of Organizational Readiness for Implementing Change
Lecture | March 7 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall
Bryan Weiner, PhD, Professor of Global Health and Health Services, University of Washington
Organizational readiness is said to be critical for successful change implementation. But, what is organizational readiness and how do you measure it? This talk will describe how organizational readiness has been conceived and measured in health services and other fields. A research program to systematically develop and test a theory-based, reliable, valid, and brief measure of organizational... More >
The Intimacy of Things: Privacy and the Internet of Things
Seminar | March 7 | 1-2 p.m. | 205 South Hall
Dr. Gilad Rosner, Internet of Things Privacy Forum
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
As part of its Spring 2017 Lunch Seminar Series, the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity presents Gilad Rosner, founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum.
https://cltc.berkeley.edu/rsvp-for-gilad-rosner/. RSVP by March 6.
Dr. Gilad Rosner
Global Leadership: Thriving in an Intercultural Workplace
Workshop | March 7 | 1:30-4:30 p.m. | International House, Home Room
Jason Patent, Director of Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership, Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership, International House; Lauren Moloney-Egnatios, Intercultural Training Specialist, Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership, International House; Breidi Truscott-Roberts, Intercultural Training Specialist, Robertson Center for Intercultural Leadership, International House
As companies and organizations are becoming more and more global, understanding different cultural styles is paramount, as is making constructive efforts to bridge significant gaps in these various styles. This 3-hour skill-building workshop will enhance your leadership skills, performance and team development.
Learning Outcomes:
Enhance your awareness of your own and others’ intercultural... More >
$199 Tickets purchased through Eventbrite Link, $139 (deadline March 3) ALUMNI Discount- Contact mloos@berkeley.edu for discount code
Tickets go on sale January 24. Buy tickets online or by calling Miranda Loos at 510.642.9481, or by emailing Miranda Loos at mloos@berkeley.edu
Two-Year Requirement Workshop
Workshop | March 7 | 2-4 p.m. | International House
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
This general information workshop is for UC Berkeley international students and scholars whose immigration status is J-1 and J-2 and who are subject to the two-year home country physical presence requirement. Not all J exchange visitors are subject to this requirement.
J exchange visitors (students and scholars) who are subject to this requirement must return to their country of last legal... More >
ESPM Forest Products and Woody Biomass Job Talk - Scott Renneckar
Seminar | March 7 | 3-4 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Scott Renneckar, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
"Innovation in Forest Products and Woody Biomass Utilization for a Californian Bioeconomy"
Refreshments to follow in 139 Mulford Hall
Using Jupyter Notebooks on Savio and Integration with Box
Workshop | March 7 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Academic Innovation Studio
Chris Paciorek, Department of Statistics; Maurice Manning, Research IT
The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that enables users to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. This interactive training session, led by staff from Research IT, demonstrates the use of Jupyter notebooks on the Savio High-Performance Computing cluster.
The second half of the session includes demonstration of more advanced... More >
Psychology Colloquium - Choosing Empathy
Colloquium | March 7 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Tolman Hall, Beach Room 3105 Tolman
Jamil Zaki
Empathy--people's ability to share and understand each other's emotions--is a powerful social force, but also can collapse when it is most needed, for instance during interactions between groups. Many theories of empathy hold that it occurs automatically, something like an emotional reflex. If this is the case, then its limits might be unavoidable. In this talk, I will lay out an alternative... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: Growth of chromatic polynomials of planar triangulations and Tits' alternative for linear semigroups
Seminar | March 7 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
I'll discuss an answer to a question posed by Treumann and Zaslow on mathoverflow regarding the growth of the number of chromatic polynomials of planar triangulations based on a version of Tits' alternative for linear semigroups. We'll discuss some generalities, then give a fairly explicit example (joint with Slava Krushkal). http://mathoverflow.net/a/262904/1345
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): The Yang Mills heat flow
Seminar | March 7 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Daniel Tataru, UC Berkeley
Understanding the Yang-Mills heat flow is a key component of my ongoing joint work with Sung-Jin Oh on the hyperbolic Yang-Mills evolution. In this talk I will outline the main ideas in our approach to the Yang-Mills heat flow.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The maximum likelihood degree of a toric variety
Seminar | March 7 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
The maximum likelihood degree (ML degree) of a projective variety is the number of complex critical points of the likelihood function with generic data. We consider the ML degree of projective toric varieties. For this, we look at "scaled" toric varieties given by a monomial parametrization involving arbitrary complex coefficients. We show that for generic choice of coefficients the ML degree of... More >
Trumping Progress on Global Climate: What's in the cards?
Lecture | March 7 | 4-6 p.m. | 50 Birge Hall
Professor Max Auffhammer, Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major (ISF)
Professor Max Auffhammer will discuss the global ramifications of the Trump Administration on climate change. This lecture is one of a series of guest lectures as part of ISF 198.5 "The 2016 US Election in Global Context: A semester-long teach-in".
Sovereign Peoplehood and Constitutional Founding in Postcolonial Korea
Colloquium | March 7 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Chaihark Hahm, Professor, Yonsei University
Taeku Lee, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
According to the preamble of the Korean constitution, it is 'We the People of Korea' that is drafting and promulgating the constitution as an expression of their sovereign will. But, who are these sovereign people, and how does one identify them? Are they the same as the ethnic Korean nation?
The Prism of Youth: Life Writing by Japanese Children and Teenagers during WWII
Colloquium | March 7 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Aaron William Moore, Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester
Andrew Barshay, Professor, History, UC Berkeley
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
Even when compared with the West, Japanese children and teenagers arguably left the most extensive historical record of young people's personal experiences of total war from 1937 to 1945. In particular, evacuation, rationing, family life, compulsory labor, and conscription reach a level of detail rarely seen in adult accounts. Nevertheless, in the historiography of childhood and youth, the... More >
Alliances In The Indo-Pacific: A Practitioner's Perspective
Lecture | March 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Vice Admiral Robert L. Thomas, Jr.
Institute of International Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies
Vice Adm. Robert Thomas graduated from the University of California with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He holds a Master of Science in National Security Studies from the National War College.
As a career submarine officer, Thomas has served on fast-attack submarines operating in both U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Central Command theaters of operation. His assignments included USS... More >
Mendeley Citation Management Workshop
Workshop | March 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 2101, Bioscience Library Training Room
Becky Miller, Bioscience and Natural Resources Library
Mendeley is a reference manager that enables you to organize, read, share, annotate, and cite your research papers. It is also an academic discovery and collaboration tool.
This hands-on workshop will give beginning Mendeley users practice importing citations and creating bibliographies. Experienced users should bring their Mendeley questions!
Is ‘Decarceration’ Even a Word? The Legal Reform of Mass Incarceration in California
Colloquium | March 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues)
Anjuli Verma, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley
Center for Research on Social Change
Scholarship on mass incarceration in the U.S. has surged over recent decades, for good reason. However, this talk pivots attention to prison downsizing and decarceration as emergent social facts in the 21st century. Prisoner rights litigation (Brown v. Plata 2011) in combination with state law and policy innovations in the form of Public Safety Realignment (Assembly Bill 109 2011) and the... More >
Design Field Notes: Majeed Kazemitabaar
Seminar | March 7 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Majeed Kazemitabaar co-designs, builds, and studies maker tools for children. At Jacobs Hall, he will discuss his MakerWear project, a modular tangible construction kit of wearables for kids.
Documentation in Python with Sphinx: The Hacker Within
Workshop | March 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
This Week's The Hacker Within
Topic: Documentation in Python with Sphinx
http://thehackerwithin.github.io/berkeley/
This is a weekly meeting for sharing skills and best practices for scientific computation.
Student Hosted Colloquium: Understanding Hydration, One Water Molecule at a Time
Seminar | March 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Francesco Paesani, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego
Two of the most challenging problems at the intersection of electronic structure theory and molecular dynamics simulations are the accurate representation of intermolecular interactions and the development of reduced-scaling algorithms applicable to large systems. To some extent, these two problems are antithetical, since the accurate calculation of non-covalent interactions typically requires... More >
Illumina Infosession: Bio-Tech Connect: Industry Infosession Series
Information Session | March 7 | 5-7 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Illumina
Thinking about your career?
We're hiring! Calling all engineers who desire to help develop life changing technologies - we want to meet you! Our team of software and process engineers are excited to share about who we are and how YOU fit within Illumina. We'll also share about full time and internship opportunities and our Illumina Accelerator. DINNER PROVIDED!
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: Genus-One Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau Correspondence
Seminar | March 7 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Dustin Ross, San Francisco State University
First suggested by physicists in the late 1980's, the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence studies a relationship between spaces of maps from curves to the quintic 3-fold (the Calabi-Yau side) and spaces of curves with 5th roots of their canonical bundle (the Landau-Ginzburg side). The correspondence was put on a firm mathematical footing in 2008 when Chiodo and Ruan proved a precise... More >
EPMS Weekly Seminar
Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Engineering and Project Management Society
Each week the Engineering and Project Management Society brings in a speaker to talk about topics related to construction and project management. Light refreshments will be provided.
Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at... More >
Career Connections Series: Education
Social Event | March 7 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Alumni House
1 Alumni House, Berkeley, CA 94720
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 professionals who work in education. The event require no prep—simply chat with interested students, share your path from Cal to career, and offer advice to those who hope to follow in your footsteps. Events are... More >
RSVP online by February 28.
Voleon Group Tech Talk
Information Session | March 7 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Ben Lee, Principal Researcher; Jon McAuliffe, Chief Investment Officer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
A view from inside the machine learning bubble and lessons from history, presented by Ben Lee, Principal Researcher and Jon McAuliffe, Chief Investment Officer of Voleon.
Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City
Lecture | March 7 | 6-8 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room
Adina Hoffman, Essayist, Critic, and Biographer
Swahili Weekly Social Hour
Social Event | January 31 – May 9, 2017 every Tuesday | 6-7 p.m. | Jupiter Taproom
2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Jupiter Taproom. This is an informal gathering to connect with other Swahili speakers on campus and in Berkeley. Each person will support their own beverage purchases, but we will provide the good company! And of course, Swahili speaking only! All skill and experience levels are welcome. Karibuni sana!
Sustain U: Green Up Your Life
Course | January 31 – April 25, 2017 every Tuesday with exceptions | 6:30-8 p.m. | 228 Dwinelle Hall
Sharon Chen; Mary Thomasmeyer
Student Environmental Resource Center
This course, presented by the Student Environmental Resource Center, is meant to introduce sustainability as a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary concept embodying business, economics, public health, engineering, and ethnic studies, as well as its real practical applications in students’ lives.
