All events
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Women's Basketball vs. Washington
Sport - Intercollegiate - Basketball | January 14 | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Women's Basketball hosts Washington in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
CAA Cal vs Washington State: Women's Basketball Hoops Party
Social Event | January 14 | 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Alumni House
Join fellow Cal Women's Basketball fans at Alumni House before your Golden Bears take on the Washington State Cougars. This Hoops Party includes a delicious buffet brunch catered by Compadres, refreshments, a pre-game chalk-talk from coach Lindsay Gottlieb, and performances by Cal Band and Cal Spirit Groups.
Hoops Party Details
Date: Sunday, January 14
Hoops Party: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30... More >
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 >
The Rules of the Game
Film - Feature | January 14 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Renoir’s masterpiece of ruthless grace, made between the Munich accords and the outbreak of war, history plays as both tragedy and farce. This self-declared “dramatic fantasy” à la Beaumarchais and de Musset etches, in the director’s words, “a rich, complex society . . . dancing on a volcano.” It uses the construct of a country-house gathering, with its shooting party and masquerade, its... More >
Moontide
Film - Feature | January 14 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Moontide, Ida Lupino is luminous as the distraught Anna, saved from suicide by pugilistic, hard-drinking longshoreman Bobo (Jean Gabin), possessed of his own haunted history. This darkly poetic proto-noir was the great Gabin’s American debut, but despite excellent performances, compelling production design, and masterful, Academy Award–nominated cinematography, the film was largely... More >
Weston Olencki + Eric Wubbels
Performing Arts - Music | January 14 | 8-10 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
Composer/performers Weston Olencki and Eric Wubbels will present new work written by and for the duo. The two works explore shared concerns of virtuosity, synchronization, and hybridization using languages developed through intensive long-term collaboration and friendship.
Program:
Weston Olencki - recasting [2016-18], premiere; prepared piano, transducers,
synthesizers, electronics,... More >
$10 General, $5 Students and seniors
Monday, January 15, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. Day- Garden Closed
Holiday | January 15 | UC Botanical Garden
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Concentration of eigenfunctions: Averages and Sup-norms
Seminar | January 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Jeffrey Galkowski, Stanford University
In this talk, we relate microlocal concentration of eigenfunctions to sup-norms and sub-manifold averages. In particular, we characterize the microlocal concentration of eigenfunctions with maximal sup-norm and average growth. We then exploit this characterization to derive geometric conditions under which maximal growth cannot occur. This talk is based on joint works with Yaiza Canzani and John... More >
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Evolution of Gliding in Lizards: Interview with Erik Sathe, Department of Integrative Biology
Presentation | January 16 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM
Erik Sathe, PhD Candidate, Department of Integrative Biology; Tesla Monson, Department of Integrative Biology
Join us for the first new episode of The Graduates this spring semester as we speak with biologist Erik Sathe about his work on lizard locomotion.
The Graduates, featuring graduate student research at Cal, is broadcast every other Tuesday on KALX 90.7 FM and online.
Erik Sathe
Certificate Program in Health Advocacy Online Information Session
Information Session | January 16 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Online
Stan Weisner, Ph.D., M.S.W., UC Berkeley Extension
Gain an in-depth understanding of the complex and dynamic U.S. health care system. Explore key policy and ethical challenges, and learn to become a health advocate who is qualified to advise patients and their families about health care issues.
Science and Literacy Playgroup
Meeting | October 31, 2017 – May 15, 2018 every Tuesday with exceptions | 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA)
1255 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94702
Chancellor's Community Grant, Trybe Inc.
Have fun and meet other families in West and South Berkeley.
For Children ages 05 and their caregivers.
Free, drop-in, snacks, circle time, arts and crafts and science activities.
New biological findings which were revealed by imaging studies based on chemical probes
Seminar | January 16 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Kazuya Kikuchi, Osaka University
One of the great challenges in the post-genome era is to clarify the biological significance of intracellular molecules directly in living cells. If we can visualize a molecule in action, it is possible to acquire biological information, which is unavailable if we deal with cell homogenates. One possible approach is to design and synthesize chemical probes that can convert biological information... More >
Data Science/Health IT Job Talk, Courtney Lyles, PhD, UCSF, School of Medicine: Using health technology to reduce healthcare disparities: real-world promises and pitfalls
Special Event | January 16 | 12-2 p.m. | 150 University Hall
Kristina Staros
Dr. Lyles will discuss her work on understanding health technology uptake and use among diverse patient populations across multiple healthcare settings, including Kaiser Permanente and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. In addition, she will outline her plans for future technology interventions targeting underserved patient populations.
Data Science/Health Systems Job Talk, Courtney Lyles, PhD, UCSF, School of Medicine: Using health technology to reduce healthcare disparities: real-world promises and pitfalls
Special Event | January 16 | 12-2 p.m. | 150 University Hall
Dr. Lyles will discuss her work on understanding health technology uptake and use among diverse patient populations across multiple healthcare settings, including Kaiser Permanente and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. In addition, she will outline her plans for future technology interventions targeting underserved patient populations.
CRISPR Critters: Policy Choices for Non-Human Applications of Genome Editing
Seminar | January 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 115 Energy Biosciences Building
Alta Charo, Alta Charo Prof of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
Development Lunch: "Socio-Economic Status and Attention Capture" and "Friend-Based Targeting"
Seminar | January 16 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Claire Duquennois; Matthew Olckers
Certificate Program in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Online Information Session
Information Session | January 16 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Online
Stan Weisner, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Developed in association with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, this certificate raises the quality of professionalism in counseling and follows a three-level, evidence-based approach to the critical issues that contribute to substance abuse.
3-Manifold Seminar: Organizational meeting
Seminar | January 16 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
We'll discuss some topics that I hope to consider this semester, including a continuation of the discussion of computational complexity of 3-manifold invariants from last semester, and Kronheimer-Mrowka's work on instanton homology for webs, as well as anything of interest to participants in the seminar.
BJCL General Meeting
Meeting | January 16 | 1-2 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law
General meeting for members to discuss upcoming events for the semester and the articles we will be working on.
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Course | January 16 – May 3, 2018 every Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:30 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Division of Undergraduate Education
In this spring 2018 class, we shall take up the nature of public speech from Socrates' public dissent to social media messaging today. The course reading will combine classic philosophical statements about the value of free, subversive and offensive speech; histories of the emergence of public spheres; and sociologies of technologically-mediated speech today.
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program Info Session
Information Session | January 16 | 3-4 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Stefanie Ebeling, Program Coordinator and Student Advisor, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, Office of Undergraduate Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
The Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program gives undergraduate students the opportunity to work with UC Berkeley professors on faculty research projects.
Adsorption, Contact, and Adhesion at Elastic and Capillary Interfaces
Seminar | January 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Joelle Frechette, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins
This presentation will first discuss the dynamic (and thermodynamics) of attachment of nanoparticles to fluid interfaces. We will look at the case where the nanoparticles are in dynamic equilibrium between the interface and a bulk phase and compare their adsorption to that of surfactants. We will demonstrate that the adsorption of nanoparticles competes with the attachment of amphiphilic ions... More >
Thematic Seminar: Number Theory: Random Groups from Generators and Relations
Seminar | January 16 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison
We consider a model of random groups that starts with a free group on n generators and takes the quotient by n random relations. We discuss this model in the case of abelian groups (starting with a free abelian group), and its relationship to the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, which predict the distribution of class groups of number fields. We will explain a universality theorem, an analog of the... More >
Davis Projects for Peace $10K award application deadline: 10k Grant Award Opportunity
Deadline | January 16 | 5 p.m. | International House
Projects for Peace is an initiative open to UC Berkeley undergrads to design grassroots projects for the summer of 2018 - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties.
We encourage applicants to use their creativity to design projects and employ innovative techniques for engaging project participants in ways that focus on conflict... More >
Plant Domestication in the Near East and Notes on the Modern Human Condition
Lecture | January 16 | 5-6 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Avi Gopher, Professor, Tel Aviv University; Shahal Abbo, The Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Archaeological Research Facility
The major issue pertaining to Near Eastern plant domestication by archaeologists is: which model best reconstructs plant domestication? On the one hand, the protracted-autonomous (non-centered) model, thriving in Near Eastern Neolithic studies in the past decade, emphasizes three major aspects of domestication: (a) a long, protracted process that was (b) geographically autonomous (non-centered)... More >
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
No Bioengineering Seminar today
Seminar | January 17 | Stanley Hall
Seminars will begin on Wednesday, January 24.
i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group Speaker Series: Balancing Reproductive Rights and Protections from Child Marriage: Insights from developmental science
Seminar | January 17 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 401 University Hall
Ahna Suleiman, Center on the Developing Adolescent
Balancing Reproductive Rights and Protections from Child Marriage - Insights from developmental science
Policies aiming to protect children from early marriage can often be in direct tension with efforts to ensure adolescents' reproductive rights. Minimum age of marriage and the age at which young people can access contraceptive and reproductive health services vary widely globally and are... More >
Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and ‘Secure Communities’ Deportations: Juan Pedroza M.P.A, Stanford University
Colloquium | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Juan Pedroza, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Jeffrey Kelly "Enroute migrant birds do not surf a green wave across the US"
Seminar | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library
Jeffrey Kelly
DS421 Program and Museum of Vertebrae Zoology
Sponsored by DS421. MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library.
Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop
Workshop | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
Getting Started in Undergraduate Research
If you are thinking about getting involved in undergraduate research, this workshop is a great place to start! You will get a broad overview of the research opportunities available to undergraduates on campus, and suggestions on how to find them.
We will also let you know about upcoming deadlines and eligibility requirements for some of... More >
[CANCELED] Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "The Perfect Defense: Bacterial Persister Cell"
Seminar | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Kim Lewis, Northeastern University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Our laboratory studies persister cells and uncultured bacteria. Persisters are dormant variants of regular cells which are tolerant to antibiotics and responsible for recalcitrance of biofilm infections. Using transcriptome analysis, cell sorting and whole genome sequencing we are identifying genes responsible for persister formation.
DataVisor Info-Session
Information Session | January 17 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
DataVisor provides the most advanced abuse, fraud, and money laundering detection solution designed to uncover unknown attacks. Traditional fraud solutions are in a constant cat-and-mouse game with attackers. Supervised machine learning models, the best fraud approach before DataVisor, quickly become outdated when attackers evolve their attack techniques. DataVisor's patented unsupervised... More >
Between Books and Rifles: Palestinian School Girls Talk Back
Lecture | January 17 | 12-2 p.m. | 602 Barrows Hall
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Race and Gender
Based on three interrelated theoretical frameworks—institutional racism, settler colonialism and security and biblical reasoning- what Professor Shalhoub-Kevorkian defines as security theology- the presentation will examine the invasion of the girl child body and space in Occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ).
Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials
Lecture | January 17 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
D. Alex Hughes
An audit study of the 2016 election confirms ethnic bias by local election officials.
Aversion to Emotional Insurance: Costly Reluctance to Hedge Desired Outcomes
Colloquium | January 17 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Carey K. Morewedge, Professor, Boston University
Institute of Personality and Social Research
We examine whether people reduce the impact of negative outcomes through emotional hedging—betting against the occurrence of desired outcomes. We find substantial reluctance to bet against the success of preferred U.S. presidential candidates and Major League Baseball, National Football League, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball, and NCAA hockey teams. This reluctance is... More >
Last Stands? Art, Memory, and Public Space
Panel Discussion | January 17 | 1-2:30 p.m. | Downtown Oakland Senior Center
200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
For decades, a painting of Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn has been on display at the Veterans’ Memorial Building in downtown Oakland. Does the painting glorify genocidal 19-century domestic policies, depict the comeuppance of an arrogant US general at the hands of Lakota warriors... or both? More >
Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program Info Session
Information Session | January 17 | 1-2 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Stefanie Ebeling, Program Coordinator and Student Advisor, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, Office of Undergraduate Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
The Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program gives undergraduate students the opportunity to work with UC Berkeley professors on faculty research projects.
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Quasi-isometries: What are they and why do we care?
Seminar | January 17 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
In this talk I will introduce the notion of a quasi-isometry and discuss the fundamental role it plays in geometric group theory.
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Infinitely divisible distributions in free probability
Seminar | January 17 | 2-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Takahiro Hasebe, University of Hokkaido
Free infinitely divisible distributions (FID) distributions were introduced by Voiculescu. Recently many classically infinitely divisible distributions have been shown to be FID too, the first highly nontrivial one being the normal distribution found by Belinschi, Bozejko, Lehner and Speicher in 2011. Also several subclasses of FID distributions have been introduced and studied. I will try to... More >
Coffee Break
Social Event | January 17 | 3-4 p.m. | Julie's Cafe
2562 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Coffee break is a welcoming weekly hour-long event at the wonderful Julie's Cafe, inviting international students to meet old friends and make new ones. It's a big campus, but at coffee break, everyone knows your name.
This week at coffee break we will be welcoming everyone back to campus and talking about our winter breaks. Come join us at 3 PM this Wednesday to share your stories over some... More >
A Life for a Life
Film - Feature | January 17 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A great yet little-known talent of silent cinema, the theater director and photographer-turned-filmmaker Evgenii Bauer was much in demand for his opulent set designs and subtly lit compositions. Praised as “an artistic treasure” during its release, and starring the incomparable Russian diva Vera Kholodnaya, A Life for a Life follows a wealthy matriarch, her two daughters (one adopted), a... More >
Number Theory Seminar: The cohomology of local Shimura varieties
Seminar | January 17 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Jared Weinstein, Boston University
This is joint work with Tasho Kaletha. The local Langlands correspondence predicts that representations of a reductive group G over a p-adic field are related to Galois representations into the Langlands dual of G. A conjecture of Kottwitz (as generalized by Rapoport and Viehmann) asserts that this relationship appears in a precise way in the cohomology of "local Shimura varieties", which were... More >
ERG Colloquium: Ted Parson: Climate Engineering: Benefits, Risks, Governance Challenges
Colloquium | January 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Ted Parson, Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:
Climate engineering (CE)—intentional, global-scale modification of the environment to offset some of the effects of elevated greenhouse gases—appears able to reduce climate-change risks beyond what is possible with mitigation and adaptation alone, including enabling integrated climate-response strategies that reduce risks in ways not otherwise achievable.
Age of Anxiety: Anticulture and Autoethnography in the Mystery of Edwin Drood
Lecture | January 17 | 4-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
James Buzard, Professor, MIT
Department of English, 19th Century and Beyond British Cultural Studies Working Group, Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
Notwithstanding Dickens’s unprecedented choice of an English cathedral town as the primary setting for his final work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) gives many indications that it remains committed to the autoethnographic project that the author had most extensively undertaken in Bleak House (1852). This talk examines Drood’s adaptations of the model in the altered conditions of the later... More >
Disability and the Dissident Body: Ancient Jewish Resistance to Empire
Lecture | January 17 | 4-6 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Julia Watts Belser, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department,Georgetown University.
Disability Studies Research Cluster, HIFIS
Ancient Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem use disability to reckon with charged questions about power, violence, and resistance. Bringing feminist disability studies to bear on rabbinic Jewish narrative, this lecture argues that disability affords the rabbis a complex symbolic discourse with which to grapple with the power of God and the brutality of empire.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Boundaries of groups
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
Boundaries of hyperbolic metric spaces have played an important role in the study of hyperbolic groups. We will discuss an analogous boundary for arbitrary finitely generated groups, called the Morse boundary, and present a recent theorem showing that in many cases, the Morse boundary determines the group up to quasi-isometry. (Joint work with M. Cordes and D. Murray)
Applied Math Seminar: A Variational Functional in Simulations of Statistical Mechanics
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall | Note change in location
Yantao Wu, Princeton University
In this talk, I advertise for a convex variational functional from statistical mechanics, which is particularly suitable for obtaining the free energy of high-dimensional order parameters from simulational sampling. In the numerical minimization of this variational functional, sampling difficulties related to ergodicity break-down are often alleviated. Two applications will be given. The first... More >
Electrolyte engineering toward a high-capacity, reversible lithium-oxygen battery/The Sudden Death Phenomena in Na-O2 Batteries
Colloquium | January 17 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Colin Burke, Ph.D. student in the McCloskey Group
Jessica Nichols, Ph.D. student in the McCloskey Group
From stopping times to “spotting” times : a new framework for multiple testing
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Aaditya Ramdas, UC Berkeley
Modern data science is often exploratory in nature, with hundreds or thousands of hypotheses being regularly tested on scientific datasets. The false discovery rate (FDR) has emerged as a dominant error metric in multiple hypothesis testing over the last two decades. I will argue that both (a) the FDR error metric, as well as (b) the current framework of multiple testing, where the scientist... More >
Job Market Seminar: "Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals"
Seminar | January 17 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Heather Sarsons, Harvard Economics
Field(s): Labor, Behavioral, Development, Personnel Economics
Embeddings for Everything: Search in the Neural Network Era
Lecture | January 17 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Dan Gillick
Dan Gillick proposes a new kind of internet search engine based on neural networks.
San Francisco World History Reading Group: Selections from The Perspective of the World, by Fernand Braudel
Meeting | January 17 | 5-7 p.m. | Civic Center Secondary School
727 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA
ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies)
Teachers in ORIAS World History Reading Groups read one book each month within a global studies theme. Participants meet monthly to eat and spend two hours in collegial conversation. It is a relaxing, intellectually rich atmosphere for both new and experienced teachers.
This event is for k-14 teachers.
Register online or or by emailing Shane Carter at orias@berkeley.edu
Texas Instruments Workshop
Information Session | January 17 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Join us for a 2 hour workshop with dinner provided on 1/17/18 in
the Wozniak Lounge!
Building your own Internet of Things (IoT) device can be easy with the MSP432 LaunchPad http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP-EXP432P401R evaluation kit coupled with the SimpleLink Wi-Fi® CC3100 BoosterPack http://www.ti.com/tool/cc3100boost. Use easy to learn, Energia www.energia.nu, an Arduino style programming... More >
Men's Basketball vs. Arizona
Sport - Intercollegiate - Basketball | January 17 | 6 p.m. | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Men's Basketball hosts Arizona in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | July 2, 2014 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3106 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable, safe, self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
Short Films of Luis Ospina
Film - Feature | January 17 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Luis Ospina is among the most influential and prolific filmmakers in Colombia. Although influenced by the militant cinema that became prevalent across much of Latin America in the 1960s, collaborators Carlos Mayolo and Ospina incorporated political critique, a sense of aesthetics, and perhaps most importantly, humor. Their iconic Vampires of Poverty, a fictional documentary, satirized what Mayolo... More >
Thursday, January 18, 2018
URAP Peer Advisor Info Session: The URAP Experience
Information Session | January 18 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Rani Davina Chan, Peer Advisor, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, Office of Undergraduate Research
Office of Undergraduate Research
Interested in applying to URAP? Come to the URAP Experience info session held by two experienced URAP apprentices and peer advisors. Find out about best practices for the application process, and being an apprentice.
Data Science/Health IT, Joan Casey, PhD, UCB, School of Public Health: Precision public health: electronic health records and their promise for epidemiology
Special Event | January 18 | 12-2 p.m. | 150 University Hall
Originally developed for billing purposes and to enhance individual clinical care, electronic health record (EHR) databases have proliferated in the past decade. These secondary data sources provide a low-cost means of accessing rich longitudinal data on diverse populations distributed across space for epidemiologic research. Using her recent study on the association between natural gas fracking... More >
Curators’ Talk: Lawrence Rinder and Kathy Geritz on Way Bay
Panel Discussion | January 18 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Navigate the evocative installation of Way Bay with BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder and Film Curator Kathy Geritz, two of the exhibition's cocurators. Rinder discusses associative, poetic groupings of artworks as well as individual selections, while Geritz illuminates some of the moving-image works on view.
CAS Fellowship Informational Meeting
Information Session | January 18 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 360 Conference Room
Martha Saavedra, Associate Director, Center for African Studies
Learn about the CAS Fellowships.
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Concrete examples of trend analyses and forward-looking modelling in Swiss Re's underwriting
Seminar | January 18 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Matthias Weber, Swiss Re
Center for Risk Management Research
- In insurance, underwriting performance is a function of exposures, losses relative to exposures and premiums relative to exposures. Getting losses and loss trends right (--> cost of goods sold) is critically important. A small estimation mistake typically has a large impact on the bottom line.
- Swiss Re is determining loss relevant trends using advanced analytics, often in collaboration with... More >
Job Market Seminar: "Bootstrap Inference for Propensity Score Matching"
Seminar | January 18 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Note change in time
Karun Adusumilli, London School of Economics and Political Science
Field(s): Econometrics, Applied Econometrics
Haas Scholars Program Info Session: $13,800 to carry out a final project in *ANY* major
Information Session | January 18 | 1-2 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars
Office of Undergraduate Research
Learn about how to apply to this research program for your last year!
The Haas Scholars Program supports twenty undergraduates with financial need with their interest for conducting research during their final year at UC-Berkeley. Applicants are evaluated primarily on the merit and originality of their proposal for an independent research or creative project that will serve as the basis for a... More >
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 >
DICE Executive Committee Meeting
Meeting | January 18 | 2-3:30 p.m. | University Hall, 461 (DREAM Office)
DICE
DICE is an action-oriented committee composed of students, faculty, alumni, and staff that works to promote Diversity, Inclusion, Community and Equity at the School of Public Health
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Course | January 16 – May 3, 2018 every Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:30 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Division of Undergraduate Education
In this spring 2018 class, we shall take up the nature of public speech from Socrates' public dissent to social media messaging today. The course reading will combine classic philosophical statements about the value of free, subversive and offensive speech; histories of the emergence of public spheres; and sociologies of technologically-mediated speech today.
2018 Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize Info Session: Funding for post graduation social engagement projects
Information Session | January 18 | 2-3 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Mary Crabb, Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
The Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize supports intellectual and creative pursuits that heighten awareness of issues of social consciousness and contribute to the public good. The award gives engaged students the opportunity to extend and reflect upon their undergraduate work at Berkeley by undertaking a socially engaged project after their graduation.
Up to $25,000. Proposals for... More >
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | January 18 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll
Office of Undergraduate Research
If you need to write a grant proposal, this workshop is for you! You'll get a headstart on defining your research question, developing a lit review and project plan, presenting your qualifications, and creating a realistic budget.
The workshop is open to all UC Berkeley students (undergraduate, graduate, and visiting scholars) regardless of academic discipline. It will be especially useful for... More >
The Royal Alcazar of Seville
Lecture | January 18 | 4-6 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
The UC Botanical Garden is pleased to host author and scholar, Mervyn Samuel for an illustrated lecture on the palace and gardens of the Royal Alcázar of Seville, the oldest royal residence in Europe still used for its original purpose. The talk will showcase the historical context of the Alcázar going back to Roman times and the influence of the Islamic presence in Spain. After 1492 Seville, and... More >
$20 / $15 UCBG Member
From Communism to Authoritarianism via Democracy. The Puzzle of Political Transformations in East Central Europe
Lecture | January 18 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Institute of International Studies
During the first two decades after 1989, countries of East Central Europe experienced a swift and successful democratization process and a relatively painless transition to a market economy. Consolidation of liberal democracy and working market economy opened the door to their accession to the NATO and the European Union. By 2004, it seemed that these countries became “normal” European... More >
Thematic Seminar: Geometry: New Techniques for Zimmer's Conjecture
Seminar | January 18 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
David Fisher, Indiana University
Lattices in higher rank simple Lie groups are known to be extremely rigid. Examples of this are Margulis' superrigidity theorem, which shows they have very few linear represenations, and Margulis' arithmeticity theorem, which shows they are all constructed via number theory. Motivated by these and other results, in 1983 Zimmer made a number of conjectures about actions of these groups on compact... More >
The Future of Humans: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Lecture | January 18 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Executive Director, Innovative Genomics Institute
Dr. Siddartha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, Columbia University
In honor of UC Berkeley’s 150th Anniversary year, the Innovative Genomics Institute is presenting a free lecture. Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna will join oncologist Sid Mukherjee to discuss unprecedented advancements in gene editing and the effect new technologies will have on the future of humanity.
The significance of Dr. Doudna's research is difficult to overstate. It has led to what... More >
Registration required on Evenbrite site. NOTE: Sign-up does not guarantee a seat. Entrance will be first come, first served with printed or electronic ticket in hand.
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Registration opens December 8. Register online or by calling Jennifer Bevington at 510-664-7579 by January 18.
Certificate Program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Information Session | January 18 | 5:30-7 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), Room 206
Learn how UC Berkeley Extension’s professional certificate can prepare you for diverse job opportunities—in teaching, business, publishing, travel and more—both in the United States and around the world.
Workday Info-Session
Information Session | January 18 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Interested in working at Workday? Workday is an on‑demand financial management and human capital management software vendor.
Join us on Thursday 1/18 at 5:30PM in Wozniak Lounge to learn more about technical roles at Workday! Bring your resumes and questions. Event will be open to everyone, and dinner will be served. Register at tinyurl.com/yatpttdw
To learn more about Workday, please... More >
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory: 70th Anniversary of Al-Nakba Film Series
Film - Documentary | January 18 | 6-8 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Arab Film Festival
First of a three-part film series presented by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in partnership with The Arab Film Festival on the 70th anniversary of Al-Nakba of 1948.
Employer Panel: How to Connect with Recruiters at Career Fairs for International Students
Career Fair | January 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Blue and Gold Room
Berkeley International Office(BIO)), Career Center
The 2018 Spring Career Fair and many other career fairs are approaching quickly! Find more details in your Handshake and take these opportunities to demonstrate your passion, knowledge, and relevant experience for your dreamed opportunities.
Employer representatives will share international students’ tips on how to prepare for a career fair, how to navigate through the companies and deliver... More >
Talking to Gods: Ainu Artifacts in the Hearst Museum
Lecture | January 18 | 6-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Christopher Lowman, UC Berkeley, Anthropology
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The Ainu, the Indigenous people of northern Japan, traditionally use uniquely carved prayer sticks and highly-prized lacquer bowls to send prayers and offerings to their many gods. These sacred objects have made their way into museum collections, but their stories are seldom straightforward: they are entwined with ongoing Ainu cultural change, the desires of collectors, and the ways in which... More >
Memories of Underdevelopment
Film - Feature | January 18 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution, despite his alienation from the new society and the loss of all his friends to Miami. Based on novelist/screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes’s autobiographical Inconsolable Memories, Memories of Underdevelopment became the first feature-length film from postrevolutionary Cuba to be... More >
