Academic
Sunday, March 18, 2018
SOLD OUT - Papermaking with Plants
Workshop | March 18 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Learn to make beautiful handmade paper from plants in your own garden! No experience necessary. This class will discuss the basics of harvesting, cooking, and processing plants and forming into sheets of handmade paper. Participants are welcome to bring in contributions from their home gardens. You’ll never look at your garden the same way again!
$85/ $80 Garden members
SOLD OUT.
Exploration of Forms: Afro-Cuban with José Francisco Barroso: Public Movement Workshop Series
Workshop | March 18 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Bancroft Studio (2401 Bancroft)
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
TDPS presents a series of three spring workshops with Cuban dancer and choreographer José Francisco Barroso on January 28, February 18, and March 18, 2018. 10:30am-12pm. Free and open to the public. Live drumming.
Monday, March 19, 2018
PF Lunch Seminar:
Seminar | March 19 | 12-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Davud Rostam-Afschar; Zarek Brot-Goldberg
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
RSVP online by March 13.
Seeing where we’re going: a retinal code for self-motion
Seminar | March 19 | 12-1 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Dr. David Berson, Professor of Medical Science, Chair of NeuroScience, Brown University
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Abstract: Self-motion triggers complementary visual and vestibular reflexes supporting image-stabilization and balance. Translation through space produces one global pattern of retinal image motion (optic flow), rotation another. We show that each subtype of direction-selective ganglion cell (DSGC) adjusts its direction preference topographically to align with specific translatory optic flow... More >
Developmental Psychology Colloquium
Colloquium | March 19 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Yuan Meng, Department of Psychology; Ruthee Foushee, Department of Psychology
Yuan Meng
Children’s Causal Interventions Combine Discrimination and Confirmation
Like scientists, children can design "experiments" to distinguish between causal structures, but their performance often falls short of information-theoretic metrics such as the expected information gain (EIG). Such deviation may have resulted from mixing normative discriminatory strategies such as... More >
Machine Learning by the People, for the People
Seminar | March 19 | 1-2 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430-438 Wozniak Lounge
Nika Haghtalab, PhD. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I will explore three lines of research from my work on the theoretical aspects of machine learning and algorithmic economics that account for these interactions.
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Free and bi-free extremes.
Seminar | March 19 | 2-3:50 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, UC Berkeley
The talk will be about extreme values in free probability and the beginning of an extension to bi-free probability, that is to free probability with left and right variables.
Differential Geometry Seminar: Estimates of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics with applications to existence
Seminar | March 19 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jingrui Cheng, University of Wisconsin–Madison
We develop new apriori estimates for scalar curvature type equations on a compact Kahler manifold. As applications, we show that properness of K-energy with respect to the \(L^1\) geodesic distance implies the existence of constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics. This is joint work with Xiuxiong Chen.
Nature Village Indoor Garden
Workshop | March 19 | 3 p.m. | University Village Community Center
1125 Jackson Street, Albany, CA 94706
Student Environmental Resource Center
Come learn with Nature Village how to create an indoor garden for your apartment!
Bring an empty plastic bottle, which we'll reuse to create an indoor herb garden. Soil and seeds will be provided.
BLISS Seminar: Queues, Balls and Bins, and Association
Seminar | March 19 | 3-4 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
R Srikant, UIUC
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
We consider a problem motivated by file retrieval in cloud computing systems where storage coding is used. In such problems, each file-retrieval job consists of multiple tasks (each corresponding to the retrieval of a coded chunk of a file), and the job is completed only when all of its tasks are completed. The goal is to compute the tail probability of the job completion time. However, this is a... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Arithmetic finiteness results for Fano varieties and hypersurfaces
Seminar | March 19 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Ariyan Javanpeykar, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Faltings proved that there are only finitely many abelian schemes of dimension $g$ over a fixed “arithmetic curve”. Similar finiteness results hold (for instance) for K3 surfaces (Andre + Y. She), smooth curves of fixed genus $g >1$ (Faltings), and cubic surfaces (Scholl). In this talk, we will investigate similar finiteness results for Fano varieties and hypersurfaces, and explain the... More >
The SAGA of histone ubiquitination in transcription regulation
Seminar | March 19 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Cynthia Wolberger, John Hopkins School of Medicine
World Literature as Travelling Genre: Paris, St. Petersburg, Tiflis
Colloquium | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
This is the third lecture of the Spring 2018 Slavic Graduate Colloquium lecture series.
Authoring Joy :) Multimodal artifacts as tools for broadening definitions of STEM participation
Colloquium | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Déana Scipio, School of Education at University of California, Davis
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Scipio explores the ways that joyful learning opportunities for authoring artifacts and activities shaped the broadening participation experiences of youth in the SoundCitizen Science Apprenticeship (SCSA) program. SCSA was a National Science Foundation funded, design-based research out of school time program for middle and high school youth. Within SCSA, youth... More >
Spike inference for genetically encoded calcium indicators with models of multistep binding kinetics
Seminar | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 177 Life Sciences Addition
Dr. David Greenberg, Center of Advanced European Studies and Research, Bonn, Germany
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Abstract:
Multiphoton imaging of genetically encoded calcium indicators can detect action potential (AP) evoked fluorescence changes from populations of spatially resolved neurons, but the nonlinear dependence of fluorescence on AP counts and variable indicator expression across neurons make quantitative inference problematic. We developed a biophysical model of GCaMP6s in neurons based on the... More >
Seminar 271, Development: NO SEMINAR
Seminar | March 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Calderon problem for Yang-Mills connections
Seminar | March 19 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Mihajlo Cekic, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics (Bonn)
In the classical Calderon conjecture we want to recover a metric on a compact manifold, up to diffeomorphism fixing the boundary, from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DN) map of the metric Laplacian. This problem is routinely motivated by applications and is open in dimension 3 and higher. In this talk, we fix the metric and consider the DN map of the connection Laplacian for Yang-Mills connections. We... More >
A Conversation with Marion Nestle and Alice Waters
Panel Discussion | March 19 | 5-7 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University; Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse
Public Health, School of, Berkeley Food Institute
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with renowned local restaurateur and activist Alice Waters and influential alumna and author Marion Nestle, who will talk about the current state of our food system and why they think the food movement is a beacon of light at the intersection of agriculture, food, nutrition, and public health.
UROC DeCal – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research (Hosted by UROC: Undergraduate Researchers of Color)
Course | January 29 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 6-8 p.m. | 174 Barrows Hall
Istifaa Ahmed, UROOC
Office of Undergraduate Research
Ethnic Studies 98/198
Class Time: Mondays, 6pm-8pm, 1/22/18 - 4/30/18
Course Control Number (CCN): 24251
Units: 1-3 units
Student Instructor: Istifaa Ahmed
Welcome to our student-led organization and DeCal, Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research! We seek to build a community of researchers of color... More >
International Alumni Career Chats (Arts, Media and Communication)
Career Fair | March 19 | 6-7 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
Berkeley International Office(BIO)), Career Center
International students with majors in humanity and social science areas may face more challenging job market and hurdles with work authorization and visa requirements. Come and talk to the international alumni who graduated with the same majors as you and are working in the Bay Area.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | March 20 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Office of Environment, Health & Safety
This training is required for anyone who is listed on a Biological Use Authorization (BUA) application form that is reviewed by the Committee for Laboratory and Environmental Biosafety (CLEB). A BUA is required for anyone working with recombinant DNA molecules, human clinical specimens or agents that may infect humans, plants or animals. This safety training will discuss the biosafety risk... More >
Veggies in Disguise (BEUHS641): Nutrition Events at Tang
Workshop | March 20 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Kim Guess, RD, Wellness Program Dietitian, Be well at Work - Wellness
Vegetables can replace less healthy ingredients in a huge variety of dishes. Learn how to incorporate more vegetables into your meals by turning them into noodles, rice, mash, and more! Lecture, brief cooking demonstration, and a sample will be provided.
When Attachments Fail: Psychiatry, Space, and History in South Africa
Colloquium | March 20 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Stephen McIsaac, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology
A constitutive part of both colonialism and apartheid in South Africa was the forced spatial extension of black families. A crucial concern was how to ensure black, exploitative labor for resource extraction and infrastructural labor. Today, this spatial legacy of apartheid remains a solidified part of kinship structure, with families largely spit between the space of the urban township and the... More >
Development Lunch: "The labor market impacts of agricultural technology"
Seminar | March 20 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Ceren Baysan
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "An Attention-Based Theory of Mental Accounting"
Seminar | March 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Filip Matejka, CERGE-EI
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.
Seminar 237/281, Macro/International Seminar: Location as an Asset
Seminar | March 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton
New Views on Tibet's Linguistic Diversity
Colloquium | March 20 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library | Note change in date and time
Gerald Roche, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
Jann Ronis, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies
Research on Tibet’s linguistic diversity in the West dates back to at least the mid-nineteenth century. However, a surge in descriptive and documentary linguistics in the twenty-first century has radically altered our understanding of Tibet’s rich and complex linguistic ecology. This presentation will provide an overview of this emerging picture of Tibet as a cradle of linguistic diversity in the... More >
Composition Colloquium: Fonema Consort
Colloquium | March 20 | 3 p.m. | 135 Morrison Hall
Fonema Consort was founded in 2011 by singer Nina Dante and composers Pablo Santiago Chin and Edward Hamel. Named “Best New Vocal-Oriented Contemporary Classical Ensemble of 2014” by the Chicago Reader, the ensemble has quickly earned a place in Chicago’s new music community, and is building a national and international audience with performances across the US as well as in Europe and Latin... More >
Chiron Lecture: From energy input to signal output I: A glimpse of glucose uptake through GLUTs
Seminar | March 20 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Nieng Yan, Princeton University
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Chiron Lectures
Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium: Chronic ambulatory brain recording in Parkison's disease using a totally implantable neural interface.
Colloquium | March 20 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Philip Starr, Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Decomposing Tensor Products
Seminar | March 20 | 3:45-5 p.m. | 103 Genetics & Plant Biology Building | Note change in location
Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
Building new representations out of old ones by tensoring is a basic construction; indeed, an old theorem of Burnside and Brauer says that all representations of a finite group can be built this way, starting from one faithful representation. Of course, decomposing tensor products can be a nightmare (the Kronecker problem). Its even worse over general rings. Surprisingly, there is a useful... More >
Next-generation devices from classical and quantum nanomaterials
Seminar | March 20 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, HP Auditorium, 306 Soda Hall
Arthur Barnard, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this seminar, I will discuss two kinds of novel devices we build from classical and quantum nanomaterials: (1) nanoscale optoelectromechanical sensors and (2) ballistic graphene transistors. In both cases, we use these new devices to uncover emergent physical phenomena, paving the way for next-generation functional devices.
Design Field Notes: Ethan Eismann
Seminar | March 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Ethan Eismann, Design Director for Homes at Airbnb, will speak at Jacobs Hall as part of the Design Field Notes series.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Grothendieck Riemann-Roch Theorem
Seminar | March 20 | 5-6 p.m. | 103 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Anningzhe Gao, UC Berkeley
We will introduce the Chern character and Todd class, then use these definitions to give a statement of the Grothendieck Riemann-Roch theorem. Also we will discuss the Mumford relation and consider some examples.
A Conversation Across the Political Divide: The Role of Government in Trade, Taxes, and Inequality
Panel Discussion | March 20 | 5-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Office of Chancellor, Goldman School of Public Policy’s Center on Civility & Democratic Engagement
In the first iteration of a new event series that brings together prominent individuals from both sides of the political spectrum, Professor Robert Reich will be joined on the stage by the Heritage Foundation's Stephen Moore to discuss inequality in the US.
Beyond Veganism: Recognizing Access, Farm Worker Rights, and the Colonization of Food
Workshop | March 20 | 6-8 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Student Environmental Resource Center
Part of the decolonizing the environment workshops hosted by the Environmental Justice program.
CPT/OPT Workshop
Workshop | March 20 | 6-7 p.m. | 155 Barrows Hall
Berkeley International Office(BIO)), ASUC Senator Lynn Shiung
This workshop will provide you with information on how international visitors can obtain work authorization off campus via CPT (Curricular Practical Training) and OPT (Optional Practical Training).
Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/RG3qC7GKjihPugQu1
Gary Wasserman | “The Doha Experiment: Arab Kingdom, Catholic College, Jewish Teacher”
Reading - Nonfiction | March 20 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | North Gate Hall, Library
Gary Wasserman’s decision to head to Qatar to teach at Georgetown sounds questionable, at best. “In the beginning,” he writes, “this sounds like a politically incorrect joke. A Jewish guy walks into a fundamentalist Arab country to teach American politics at a Catholic college.” But he quickly discovers that he has entered a world that gives him a unique perspective on the Middle East and on... More >
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement Workshop
Workshop | March 21 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
J-1 and J-2 visitors subject to this requirement must return to their country of last legal residence for two years or obtain a waiver before being eligible for certain employment visas such as H (temporary employment), L (intra-company transfer), or Permanent Resident status ("green card"). Not all J visitors are subject as it depends on specific factors.
At this workshop, you will... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "The critical roles of (p)ppGpp in Gram positive bacteria"
Seminar | March 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Jade Wang, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Our research focuses on how living systems accurately duplicate and process their genetic information by regulating the central dogma processes of replication, transcription, and translation. Conserved from bacteria to humans, the central dogma lies at the heart of all cellular activities and its regulation is essential for survival and genome stability.
How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts: Brandon Stewart, Department of Sociology, Princeton
Colloquium | March 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Brandon Stewart, Professor, Department of Sociology. Princeton
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.
Data Science Discovery Projects: Social Impact
Workshop | March 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Academic Innovation Studio (Dwinelle 117)
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Psychology, UC Berkeley; Joanna Reed, Sociology, UC Berkeley; Victoria Robinson, American Cultures Center and Department of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; Philip Pierini, American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program; Chris Hench, Department of German, and ata Science Education Program, UC Berkeley
Data Science Discovery Projects helps to train aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. This past semester four AC instructors incorporated Data Science Discovery Projects into their courses. The Data Science tools and the content of the AC courses was a powerful combination. A combination which it is hoped will be... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Cara Brook: Between- and within-host mechanisms of viral hosting in bat reservoirs for emerging infectious disease
Seminar | March 21 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Cara Brook
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 >
Synergy of Electrified Transportation and Renewable Energy Systems: CITRIS Spring 2018 Research Exchange Series
Seminar | March 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Zechun Hu, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
With the help of government policies and technology improvements, the sales of electric vehicles (EVs) have experienced an explosive growth in recent years around the world. The transition of vehicles’ refueling from gas stations to charging stations will have remarkable impact on energy systems.
“Molecular Recording: Capture and Storage of Data within the Genome of a Cell”
Seminar | March 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Seth Shipman, Harvard Medical School
Experimental cell biology is limited by the requirement for direct observation or destructive analysis of the cells being studied. This is particularly problematic when studying a complex, developing system such as the brain. To circumvent this limitation, I have pursued a new approach: the logging of biological events as coded nucleotides, written into the genome of a living cell. These... More >
Finding Health Statistics and Data
Workshop | March 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, D-Lab Convening Room, Rm. 356
Michael Sholinbeck, Sheldon Margen Public Health Library
Participants in this workshop will learn about some of the issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease statistics, health behavior statistics, and more. The focus will be on U.S. statistics, but sources... More >
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Game Changers: The Canadian Sport Industry as a Microcosm of Economic and Political Change in Canada
Colloquium | March 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Neil Longley, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
The lecture is based on research conducted for my forthcoming book, entitled Game Changers: Economics, Politics, and the Transformation of the Canadian Spectator Sport Business (University of British Columbia (UBC) Press, 2019).
The book examines the profound transformation that has occurred in the Canadian spectator sport business over the past half-century. It argues that this... More >
The Poetics and Politics of Transnational Queer Feminist of Color Film: a dialogue between globally renowned filmmaker Pratibha Parmar and Berkeley Professor Paola Bacchetta
Colloquium | March 21 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Pratibha Parmar, Associate Professor in Film, California College of the Arts; Paola Bacchetta, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, UC Berkeley
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Race and Gender
This event consists of a dialogue between globally renowned film-maker Pratibha Parmar and Berkeley Professor Paola Bacchetta, about what filmic creation and reception can open up for feminist and queer of color life world making.
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Intersection homology and perverse sheaves
Seminar | March 21 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA
I will sketch several different constructions of intersection homology, a version of homology for singular spaces developed by Goresky and MacPherson. One construction involves the theory of perverse sheaves, which I will also introduce. Perverse sheaves arise naturally from vanishing cycles, in the study of complex singularities.
Formation of large-scale random structure by competitive erosion
Seminar | March 21 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Sourav Sarkar, U.C. Berkeley
Competitive erosion models a random interface sustained in equilibrium by equal and opposite
pressures on each side of the interface. Here we study the following one dimensional
version. Begin with all sites of Z uncolored. A blue particle performs simple random walk
from 0 until it reaches a nonzero red or uncolored site, and turns that site blue; then, a red
particle performs simple random... More >
The Food of our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism
Colloquium | March 21 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
Hannah Landecker, University of California Los Angeles
This paper explores the history of medicated feed for agricultural animals in the twentieth century as a large-scale remaking of the chemical landscape of the United States. While there has been some appreciation of the addition of antibiotics and hormones to feed as growth promoters, given worries about these as adulterations of the end-product that is milk and meat for human consumption, the... More >
Chiron Lecture: From energy input to signal output II: – Snapshots of the voltage-gated Na+ and Ca2+ channels
Seminar | March 21 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Nieng Yan, Princeton University
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Chiron Lectures
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): A sheaf-theoretic model for $SL(2,\mathbb C)$ Floer homology
Seminar | March 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Ciprian Manolescu, UCLA
I will explain the construction of a new homology theory for three-manifolds, defined using perverse sheaves on the $SL(2,\mathbb C)$ character variety. Our invariant is a model for an $SL(2,\mathbb C)$ version of Floer's instanton homology. I will present a few explicit computations for Brieskorn spheres, and discuss the connection to the Kapustin-Witten equations and Khovanov homology. This is... More >
ERG Colloquium: Gwen Ottinger: Infrastructures for Engineer-Allies: The Invisible Conditions of Successful Collaboration with Social Justice Activists
Colloquium | March 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Gwen Ottinger, Associate Professor, Drexel University, Department of Politics
Social and environmental justice activists are increasingly asking how technology can help them achieve their goals, and a growing number of engineers, computer scientists, and other technical experts are eager to help. But successful collaborations depend in no small part on taken-for-granted infrastructural elements... More >
Applied Math Seminar: A high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for variable-coefficient advection-diffusion problems
Seminar | March 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Raunak Borker, Stanford University
A high-order discontinuous Galerkin method with Lagrange multipliers (DGLM) is presented for the solution of the steady advection-diffusion equation with a variable advection field in the high Peclet number regime. In this regime, the standard finite element method (FEM) might produce non-physical oscillations in the solution at practical mesh resolutions. Like a Discontinuous Enrichment Method... More >
Invisible No More: A Symposium on Resisting Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color
Conference/Symposium | March 21 | 4-7:45 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center
Center for Race and Gender, Department of Ethnic Studies, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Institute of Governmental Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, American Cultures, Equity and Inclusion, Vice Chancellor
The Center for Race & Gender presents…
INVISIBLE NO MORE:
A SYMPOSIUM ON RESISTING POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance.
March 21-22, 2018
Multicultural Community Center, MLK Student... More >
A Unified Theory of Regression Adjustment for Design-based Inference
Seminar | March 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Joel Middleton, UC Berkeley
Under the Neyman causal model, a well-known result is that OLS with treatment-by-covariate interactions cannot harm asymptotic precision of estimated treatment effects in completely randomized experiments. But do such guarantees extend to experiments with more complex designs? This paper proposes a general framework for addressing this question and defines a class of generalized regression... More >
Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Leptin Action
Seminar | March 21 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Martin Myers |, University of Michigan
Ultrafast Lasers and their Applications in Spectroscopy and Microscopy
Seminar | March 21 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | Cory Hall, 540AB DOP Center
Dr. Patrick Kolsch, Sales Manager, Spectra-Physics
Dr. Aram Zeytunyan, Senior Scientist, Newport
Lasers are used in a variety of research applications ranging from bioimaging to materials processing. In this seminar, new product developments in the area of ultrafast lasers and their applications in multiphoton imaging and molecular spectroscopy will be discussed.
The Berkeley Forum Presents a Forum on Police and Community
Panel Discussion | March 21 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Chou Hall N500
Kriss Worthington; Brandon Anderson; Rashidah Grinage
The discussion over police and use of force, a constant refrain in Berkeley’s community discourse, was revitalized over UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Week last September. Nationally, protests against brutality have drawn to attention the relationship between police and the community. Large scale social movements have been critical of the nation’s police presence, concerning issues of accountability... More >
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Paris/Berkeley/Bonn/Zürich Analysis Seminar: (Log-)epiperimetric inequality and regularity at isolated singularities for almost Area-Minimizing currents
Seminar | March 22 | 9:10-10 a.m. | 238 Sutardja Dai Hall
Luca Spolaor, MIT and Princeton University
The uniqueness of blow-up and regularity of multiplicity-one minimal surfaces at isolated singularities has been successfully investigated by Allard-Almgren [Ann. of Math. '81], in the integrable case, and by L. Simon [Ann. of Math. '83], in its full generality. In this talk I will present a simple and completely variational approach to this problem, achieved by proving a new logarithmic... More >
Invisible No More: A Symposium on Resisting Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color
Conference/Symposium | March 22 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center
Center for Race and Gender, Department of Ethnic Studies, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Institute of Governmental Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Townsend Center for the Humanities, American Cultures, Equity and Inclusion, Vice Chancellor
The Center for Race & Gender presents…
INVISIBLE NO MORE:
A SYMPOSIUM ON RESISTING POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN AND WOMEN OF COLOR
Experiences of women of color – often invisible in broader debates and movements around police violence, criminalization, and gender-based violence – must fuel our research & resistance.
March 21-22, 2018
Multicultural Community Center, MLK Student... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Topic Forthcoming
Seminar | March 22 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Sabrina Howell, NYU
Joint with the Haas Finance Seminar
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
Seminar | March 22 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C325 Haas School of Business
Paper: Migration and the Value of Social Networks
2018 ESPM Seminar Series - Jonathan Baillie
Seminar | March 22 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Jonathan Baillie, Chief Scientist and Senior VP of the National Geographic Society presents, "The New Scientific Vision of the National Geographic Society"
Coffee will be served at 11:30 in 139 Mulford Hall.
This event is open to the public.
Mistaking Minds and Machines: How Speech Affects Dehumanization and Anthropomorphism
Seminar | March 22 | 12-1 p.m. | 205 South Hall
Juliana Schroeder, Assistant Professor, Haas Management of Organizations Group
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
Please join us on Thursday, March 22 at 12pm as Juliana Schroeder, Assistant Professor in the Haas Management of Organizations Group, will discuss her recent research, which focuses on how the voice can affect the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine, or a machine for a person.
RSVP online by March 20.
Juliana Schroeder
Planning Your Pregnancy Leave (BEUHS315)
Workshop | March 22 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Nicole Roses, UCB HR Employee Relations Consultant; Sheila Taliafero, UCB Disability Counselor; Gabe Schmidt, UCB Health Care Facilitator; Ann Gilbert, UCB Academic Personnel
Thinking about starting a family? This workshop will provide information on leave policies, disability benefits, use of sick/vacation time, and options on when/how to return to work after having a child for both faculty and staff employees. Enroll online.
IB Seminar: The dynamic role of iron in linking biogeochemical cycles through marine microbial physiology, elemental stoichiometry and adaptation
Seminar | March 22 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Nathan Garcia, Duke University
Seminar 217, Risk Management: The Financing Rate Implied by Equity Futures
Seminar | March 22 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speaker: Nick Gunther, UC Berkeley
Center for Risk Management Research
This talk will explore the cost of implicit leverage associated with an S&P 500 Index futures contract and derive an implied financing rate. While this implicit financing rate was often attractive relative to market rates on explicit financings, the relationship between the implicit and explicit financing rates was volatile and varied considerably based on legal and economic regimes. Among other... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Gym Usage and Cost Salience
Seminar | March 22 | 1-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Andy Schwartz, UC Berkeley
The Future of Free Speech and Campus Debate
Panel Discussion | March 22 | 1-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College
Shep Melnick, Boston College; Lindsay Shepherd, Laurier University; Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law; Joshua Dunn, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; April Kelly-Woessner, Elizabethtown College; Steve Teles, Johns Hopkins University
March 22, 2018
310 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Panel 1 (1 – 2:50 pm): The Blurred Lines Over Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Academic Freedom
Panel 2 (3:10 – 5:00 pm): Is Intellectual Diversity Essential to Academic Excellence?
Total Station Training
Workshop | March 22 | 1-4 p.m. | 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility), Meet in Atrium and move outside building | Canceled
Archaeological Research Facility
We’ll meet in the ARF Atrium and, weather permitting, we’ll go outside with the units. The total stations are our Sokkia SET 5 series that are typically used for precision mapping during excavation.
Sokkia SET 5
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.
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: “The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London”
Seminar | March 22 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Interactive systems for code and data demography
Seminar | March 22 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 Soda Hall - HP Auditorium
Elena Glassman, Postdoctoral Scholar, EECS; UC Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
I will focus this talk on systems that use program analysis, program synthesis, and visualization to power active data-driven teaching in large programming classrooms and passive knowledge sharing within developer communities.
Beyond Identity: Building Collective Struggles for Racial and Health Justice
Colloquium | March 22 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Room 221
George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition, UC San Francisco; Carlos Martinez, PhD student, UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Program in Medical Anthropology
Berkeley Center for Social Medicine
Since the 2016 presidential elections, “identity politics” have come under acute fire by a number of liberal and left commentators who fault its proponents with dividing civil society and social movements, while creating a backlash that brought Trump to power. Yet, extensive scholarship in social science and public health has made it clear that race has been and continues to be a foundational... More >
Celebration of the Contributions of Bob and Becky Tracy to Irish Studies at Berkeley and in the Bay Area
Panel Discussion | March 22 | 6-8:30 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Department of English, Irish Studies, Celtic Studies
We hope that you will join us on Thursday, March 22nd, to celebrate the long and crucial presence of Robert and Rebecca Tracy in the Irish Studies scene in the Bay Area. From 6-7 p.m. we’ll gather in the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall on the UC Berkeley campus) for a program of brief remarks by members of the Celtic Studies Program and the English Department at Berkeley as well as the Irish... More >
Friday, March 23, 2018
Gender Equity in the Swedish Film Industry: Anna Serner on "50-50 by 2020"
Seminar | March 23 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, will conduct a seminar for UC Berkeley students and faculty on “Quality and Equality” as it relates to gender equity in the Swedish film industry and the goal of meeting a 50-50-percent representation in leadership positions by 2020. Anna has given talks on this topic at the Cannes Film Festival and will speak at the Sonoma Film... More >
Deadline to submit applications for the Undergraduate Research Symposium on South Asia
Deadline | March 23 | -5 p.m. | 10 Stephens Hall
Various, https://southasia.berkeley.edu/
Institute for South Asia Studies
About the Undergraduate Research Symposium
Reaching across disciplines, this symposium serves as a space to showcase the research of UC Berkeley undergraduate students focusing on South Asia. The third annual symposium will take place at the Institute for South Asia Studies on Tuesday, May 1, 2018 from 4-7 PM. Selected students will present their original thesis work to UC Berkeley faculty, ISAS... More >
What can science explain? Folk epistemic judgments in adults
Colloquium | March 23 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Sara Gottlieb
Ph.D Exit Talk
The interaction of wetland hydraulics and land subsidence reversal in a Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta wetland: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Seminar | March 23 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
Dr. Cristina Poindexter, Assistant Professor, Sacramento State University
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | March 23 | 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 on 9/8 and 12/1, Samba will be on 10/6 and Polynesian/Hula will be on 11/3. No partner required. Comfortable clothing and athletic shoes recommended.
Establishment and Maintenance of Specialized Chromatin Domains
Seminar | March 23 | 1-2 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Robin Allshire, Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Curious Minds and Materials Discoveries: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | March 23 | 2-3 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Prof. Jiaxing Huang, Northwestern, Materials Science & Engineering
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Curiosity-driven discoveries can often inspire new hypotheses in scientific research and solutions for problems. I will share a few such discoveries from my research group and my classrooms.
For example, crumpled paper balls in a wastebasket inspired a new form of ultrafine particles that becomes aggregation-resistant and can disperse in arbitrary solvents. This represents a new strategy to... More >
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Metastability of the Zero Range Process on a Finite Set Without Capacity Estimates
Seminar | March 23 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall | Canceled
Chanwoo Oh, UC Berkeley
In this talk, I'll prove metastability of the zero range process on a finite set without using capacity estimates. The proof is based on the existence of certain auxiliary functions. One such function is inspired by Evans and Tabrizian's article, "Asymptotics for the Kramers-Smouchowski equations". This function is the solution of a certain equation involving the infinitesimal generator of the... More >
Gender Equity in the Swedish Film Industry:: Anna Serner on “50-50 by 2020”
Seminar | March 23 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Anna Serner, Swedish Film Institute
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, will conduct a seminar for UC Berkeley students and faculty on “Quality and Equality” as it relates to gender equity in the Swedish film industry and the goal of meeting a 50-50% representation in leadership positions by 2020.
FREE for UC Berkeley students and faculty
Registration opens March 5. Register online by March 22.
MENA Salon: The Fate of the Iran Deal
Workshop | March 23 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's removal from the Trump administration on March 13 has raised serious doubts about the future of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Tillerson's likely replacement is CIA director Mike Pompeo, a staunch opponent of the agreement. In this week's MENA Salon we will build upon last week's discussion of nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East with a focus on the fate of the... More >
Strait Talk Berkeley Symposium: Presenting the "Consensus Document" Panel Discussion
Conference/Symposium | March 23 | 4-6 p.m. | 402 Barrows Hall
The delegates from Mainland China, Taiwan, and the US
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
The Berkeley community is cordially invited to the Public Presentation and Closing Ceremony of the 2018 Strait Talk Berkeley Symposium (海峽尋新柏克萊論壇／海峡寻新伯克利论坛). This year's symposium takes place from March 19 to March 23, 2018. Eleven delegates from Mainland China,... More >
Grounds for Science-The deceptiveness of perception
Presentation | March 23 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Scarlet City Espresso Bar
3960 Adeline, Emeryville, CA 94608
Dylan Paiton, Vision Science Graduate Group
Optical illusions and visual hallucinations are highly unusual. How is it that we are able to see something that is not really there? Dylan will outline standard methods that neuroscientists use to better understand how our brains process light, and introduce a theory for conscious vision that has guided decades of computational and experimental neuroscience.
Visual illusions - the deception of perception
Saturday, March 24, 2018
Saturday Seminar 2017/2018: Converging and Emerging towards Equity
Workshop | March 24 | 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Longfellow Middle School
1500 Derby Street, Berkeley, CA 94703
Dr. Tomás Galguera
Successful use of language in academic settings requires that students make decisions about what they say or write, how they do this, and for what purposes. This requires that teachers understand discourse-level features of language, which are not always apparent. It is necessary to design pedagogy and curricula that teach and reinforce successful uses or language. Participant Structures offer a... More >
Saturday Seminar Series 2017-18: Converging and Emerging towards Equity
Workshop | March 24 | 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Longfellow Middle School
1500 Derby St., Berkeley, CA 94703
Dr. Tomás Galguera
Bay Area Science Project, Bay Area Math Project, Bay Area Writing Project
Successful use of language in academic settings requires that students make decisions about what they say or write, how they do this, and for what purposes. This requires that teachers understand discourse-level features of language, which are not always apparent. It is necessary to design pedagogy and curricula that teach and reinforce successful uses or language.
RSVP online or by calling 510-642-7154 by September 15.
Caminos de la Ciencia - Explosiones y Sismos Solares
Presentation | March 24 | 1:45-3:30 p.m. | Kapor Center for Social Impact
2148 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612
Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros, Space Sciences Lab
Nuestra impresión cotidiana del Sol es la del astro apacible, inmutable y de cierta forma aburrido. Sin embargo, el Sol es una estrella vibrante y dinámica que presenta ciclos, que en cuyos máximos, manifiestan una gran actividad magnética. Uno de los fenómenos solares que más llaman la atención de los astrónomos son las explosiones solares. En esta charla hablaremos sobre estos fenómenos, sus... More >
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Registration opens March 15. Register online by March 24.
