Academic

<< Week of September 20 >>

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Family Workshop: Alaskan Snow Goggles

11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday, September 17, 2018

​Graduate Students Seminar

11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Combinatorics Seminar

12-1 p.m.

PF Lunch Seminar:

12-2 p.m.

Information decomposition

12-1 p.m.

Contemplating Loss: Photography Workshop

1-4 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development

2-3:30 p.m.
Chris Bail

CANCELLED -- Exposure to Opposing Views Can Increase Political Polarization

2-3:30 p.m.Canceled

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.

Jesse Zymet, "Lexical propensities in phonology: Corpus and experimental evidence, grammar, and learning"

3:10-5 p.m.

Differential Geometry Seminar

3:10-4 p.m.

Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar

3:10-5 p.m.
Surveillance

Modern Surveillance: Living "Under His Eye"

3:30-5 p.m.

Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Single-Crossing Differences on Distributions"

4-5:30 p.m.

Molecular Chaperone Functions in Protein Folding and Quality Control

4-5 p.m.

Design Field Notes: Kitty Yeung

4-5 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: "The Treatment Effect Elasticity of Demand: Estimating the welfare losses from groundwater depletion in India"

4-5:30 p.m.

Analysis and PDE Seminar

4:10-5 p.m.

SLAM: A Career in Research, Publishing and Posting: How a Twitter-obsessed Graduate Student Took the Reins of the Preprint Movement in Chemistry

5:30-6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Nonstandard Analysis and its Application to Markov Processes

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Learning Representations for Planning

12-1 p.m.

Phonography in Transit: Naples and New York

12-1:30 p.m.

Home Ownership (BEUHS341)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Incentivized Resume Rating: Eliciting the Distribution of Employer Preferences without Deception

2-3:30 p.m.

Seminar 237, The Macroeconomic Implications of Corporate Debt Policies and Pricing Strategies

2:10-3:30 p.m.

3-Manifold Seminar

2:10-3:30 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3:45-5:45 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring

3:45-4:45 p.m.

Studies of radicals, clusters, and transition states by slow electron velocity-map imaging of cryogenically cooled anions (cryo-SEVI)

4-5 p.m.

How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop

4-5 p.m.

Sandia National Laboratories career fair

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 281: International Trade and Finance, "Title: "Credit Allocation under Banking Globalization: Theory and Empirics"

4-5:30 p.m.

Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: ​"Attention Oligopoly"

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring

5-6 p.m.

International Student Career Success Series: Identifying international student friendly hiring employers

6-7 p.m.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Seasonal Tea Blending Workshop for Fall

10 a.m.-12 p.m.

MCB Departmental Highlight Feature Seminar: Itchy and Scratchy: Molecular mechanisms of itch and pain

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

EECS Internship Fair

11 a.m.-3 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Sarah Benson-Amram

12-1 p.m.

Mindfulness workshop

12-1 p.m.

Superhydrophobic Surfaces in the Environment and in Biotechnology

12-1 p.m.

Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Good and evil of genome instability”

12-1 p.m.

Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security

12-2 p.m.

Producing Lombe Junction: Oil Revenues, Roads and Patterns of Reconstruction in Post-War Rural Angola

12:30-2 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2-3 p.m.

TAP free energy, spin glasses, and variational inference.

3-4 p.m.

Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar

3-4 p.m.

Number Theory Seminar

3:40-5 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4-5 p.m.

ERG Colloquium: Joshua Apte

4-5:30 p.m.

BAT Altruism: The Hidden Life of Brown Adipose Tissue

4-5 p.m.

EECS Colloquium: BioDesign: Using Diversity to Understand Nature, Transform Education, and Invent the Future

4-5 p.m.

Correcting Bias in Eigenvectors of Financial Covariance Matrices

4-5 p.m.

Center for Computational Biology Seminar

4:30-5:30 p.m.

The Role of Teachers in Advancing Equitable Education Policy

5-6:30 p.m.

Hertha Sweet Wong's Picturing Identity Book Launch

5:30-7 p.m.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

BERCshop: California Greenin' - How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader

Paris/Berkeley/Bonn/Zürich Analysis Seminar

9:10-10 a.m.

Constructing Post-Imperium Identity: Taiwan and Eastern Europe

10 a.m.-6 p.m.

What Can Machine Learning Teach Us About Literature?

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "TBA"

11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation

12-1 p.m.

Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act

12-1:30 p.m.

Planning Your Pregnancy Leave (BEUHS315)

12:10-1:30 p.m.

IB Seminar: The Ecological Diversification of Coevolving Interactions

12:30-1:30 p.m.

A Landmark Case on Maternal Mortality in Uganda

12:45-2 p.m.

Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar: "Financial Technology Adoption and Retailer Competition"

1-2:30 p.m.

Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "How Do Primary Care Physicians Influence Healthcare?"

2-3:30 p.m.

Melanopsin is repurposed by ipRGC subtypes to shape the function of distinct visual circuits

3:30-4:30 p.m.

Rohingya Crisis, One Year On

4-6 p.m.

Connecting the Dots: Exploring Many Paths from Major to Career

4-6 p.m.
Jeremiah Sims

Book Talk: Revolutionary STEM Education

4-5:30 p.m.

Berkeley Seminar on Global History: Borderlands and Border Crossings in the 19th-Century World

4-6 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

Seminar 242, Econometrics: "Selection of Heterogenous Instruments in Partially Linear Fixed Effects Panel Regression"

4:10-5 p.m.

How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop

4:30-5:30 p.m.

Verónica Gago in Conversation with Wendy Brown

5-7 p.m.

Crafter Dark!

8-10 p.m.

Friday, September 21, 2018

Constructing Post-Imperium Identity: Taiwan and Eastern Europe

10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Biomimicry: Design with Nature

10-11 a.m.

Seminar 251, Labor seminar: "Can Wealth Taxation Work in Developing Countries? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia"

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Labor Lunch: NO SEMINAR

12-1 p.m.Canceled

Graduate Student Lightning Talks

12-1 p.m.
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RefWorks

12-1 p.m.

The Marriage Market for Lemons: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi

12:05-1:30 p.m.

Remote Memory for Non-Masochists

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Dissertation Talk: Acquiring Diverse Robot Skills via Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning

3-4 p.m.

Composition Colloquium: Oren Boneh, UC Berkeley

3 p.m.

MENA Salon: Egypt Five Years After Rabaa

3-4 p.m.
Michael Buckland

Information Access: Its Scope and its Limitations

3:10-5 p.m.

A New, Expeditious Strategy for the Design of Functional Metalloproteins

4-5 p.m.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Keys to the Communicative World Language Classroom - Strand C:

8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Keys to the Communicative World Language Classroom - Strand B:

8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Keys to the Communicative World Language Classroom - Strand A:

8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

SOLD OUT - FAMILY PROGRAM: A Kid's Garden

10-11:30 a.m.

This Is Not a Gun: Ceramic Workshop with Cara Levine

12-1:30 p.m.