All events
Monday, October 1, 2018
Systems and the Politics of Representation
Lecture | October 1 | 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
(Computer) Vision without Sight: Finding, Reading, and Magnifying Text
Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "TBA"
Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
PF Lunch Seminar:
Seminar | October 1 | 12-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Mindfulness at Moffitt: Moffitt Wellness Program
Workshop | October 1 – December 10, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 501 (Wellness Room)
Combinatorics Seminar: Coherence of cellular strings of zonotopes
Seminar | October 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Office Hours with Oracle
Meeting | October 1 | 1-4:30 p.m. | Cory Hall, Room 504
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | October 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Seminar 211, Economic History: Do Black Politicians Matter?
Seminar | October 1 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
String-Math Seminar: Motives and conformal rigidity
Seminar | October 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Lefschetz pencils and their noncommutative counterparts/Dynamics of Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations
Seminar | October 1 | 2:30-5 p.m. | Stanford University Mathematics Department, 384H/383N
Differential Geometry Seminar: Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds
Seminar | October 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Finiteness of Frobenius traces of a de Rham local system
Seminar | October 1 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 784 Evans Hall
The AI Trinity: Data + Algorithms + Infrastructure
Lecture | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Experimentation and Approval Mechanisms"
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Design Field Notes: Mike Marzalek
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Seminar 271, Development: "Supply Chain Enforcement of Labor Law: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh's Apparel Sector"
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
The "self-stirred" genome: Bulk and surface dynamics of the chromatin globule
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Construction of unstable quasi-periodic solutions for a system of coupled NLS equations
Seminar | October 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Why Free Speech Matters Now: Lauren Cooley at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | October 1 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Let's Talk About Sex!: A Graduate Student Sexual Education Series
Workshop | October 1 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 183 Dwinelle Hall
Gaming, Edtech, and Cybersecurity UI/UX Design Lead Panel
Lecture | October 1 | 6:30-9 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.), 608/609
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Garden Closed
Special Event | January 2 – December 4, 2018 the first Tuesday of the month every month | UC Botanical Garden
Abiotic synthetic polymers: functional alternatives to antibodies? Applications for protein stabilization, inhibition of signal transduction and as broad-spectrum antivenom.
Seminar | October 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Predicting Portfolio Return Volatility at Median Horizons
Seminar | October 2 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Lineages of the Global City: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2018 Colloquium
Colloquium | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Inflation Expectations And Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence"
Presentation | October 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
In their own words: First generation students talk about navigating Berkeley
Presentation | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Samia Huq | Thinking about the Secular: Practices, Dispensations, and Possibilities in Bangladesh
Lecture | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Mindfulness Meditation Group
Meeting | February 20, 2018 – January 5, 2021 every Tuesday | 12:15-1 p.m. | 3110 Tang Center, University Health Services
Undergraduate Research and Scholarships Fair
Special Event | October 2 | 1-4 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Beliefs about Gender
Seminar | October 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Seminar 237, The Inattentive Consumer: Sentiment and Expectations
Seminar | October 2 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: A perfect Morse function on the SU(2) representation variety of a surface
Seminar | October 2 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
McNair Scholars Program Deadline
Information Session | October 2 | 3:30-4 p.m. | 554 Barrows Hall
EECS Undergraduate Research Panel
Panel Discussion | October 2 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 430 Soda Hall
LSE Summer School Information Session
Information Session | October 2 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: An introduction to monotonic independence
Seminar | October 2 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Interfacial Energy and Charge Transfer for Photon Up- and Down-conversion
Seminar | October 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Vanamala Viswanatha | Translating Kannada Literary Texts into English: Poetics and Politics
Lecture | October 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Intermediation and Vertical Integration in the Market for Surgeons"
Seminar | October 2 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
The challenge of big data and data science for the social sciences: Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | October 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Holloway Poetry Series: Mixed Blood Talk with Evie Shockley
Reading - Literary | October 2 | 4:30-8 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Colombia: Lessons from a Presidential Campaign
Lecture | October 2 | 5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Julian and His Supporters
Seminar | October 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Latinxs and the Environment: A Conversation on Health and the Environment
Seminar | October 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 30 Stephens Hall
Environmental Change and Migration in Historical Perspective
Lecture | October 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Applying to Graduate Programs in English: Information Session
Information Session | October 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 330, English Department Lounge
Texas Instruments Info-Session and Hands-On Workshop
Workshop | October 2 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
International Student Career Success Series: Learn the art of “networking” step by step [Part 1]
Workshop | October 2 | 6-7 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
SOLD OUT - Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants: Microbiome Magic
Panel Discussion | October 2 | 6:30-8 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Free Wednesday at the Garden
Special Event | January 3 – December 5, 2018 the first Wednesday of the month every month with exceptions | UC Botanical Garden
Graduate Student Lounge
Miscellaneous | April 25 – December 12, 2018 every Wednesday | Anthony Hall
Food In The 15th: A Candidates’ Forum
Panel Discussion | October 3 | Richmond Memorial Auditorium, Bermuda Room
Wellness Wednesdays: First Wednesday Yoga Walk
Sport - Recreational | October 3 | 9:30-10:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
How Realistic is Photorealistic?: ICBS / Vision talks
Presentation | October 3 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Discovery Station: Seeds
Special Event | October 3 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden | Canceled
a16z Demo Day
Career Fair | October 3 | 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | Soda Hall, Freezeway
Townsend Center's Berkeley Book Chat: Catherine Gallagher: Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Lecture | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room
Noon Concert: Tan Jing, soprano
Performing Arts - Music | October 3 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "(Re)programming of cell identity and function in the context of chromatin"
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Systems and the Politics of Representation with Charles Gaines
Lecture | October 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Real Estate Research Seminar: Alex Bartik: "Moving Costs and Worker Adjustment to Changes in Labor Demand: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data"
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C325 Haas School of Business
Control of mammalian cell differentiation by feedback and noise
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Scott Edwards: Evolutionary genomics of flightlessness in birds
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Shellfish for the Celestial Empire: A Deep History of the Birth, Collapse, and Future of Abalone Fishing in California
Lecture | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Panel Discussion | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Being Real
Colloquium | October 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Supreme Court: Year in Review
Lecture | October 3 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
Reformist Revolutions in Malawi: The Role of Reformed Islamic and Christian Congregations in Rural Malawi
Colloquium | October 3 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | February 1, 2017 – December 5, 2018 the first Wednesday of the month every month with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Periodic dynamics on tori and elliptic curves
Seminar | October 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Concentration from Geometry in High Dimension
Seminar | October 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Weekly Coffee Break
Social Event | September 12 – December 5, 2018 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House
The Virgin Spring
Film - Feature | October 3 | 3:10-4:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Number Theory Seminar: Construction of $W\Omega _R^\ast $ and comparison with de Rham complex
Seminar | October 3 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
ERG Colloquium: Patrick Gonzalez: Anthropogenic Climate Change Severely Exposes United States National Parks
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Design Rules of Efficient Ion Conducting Polymers: From Block Copolymers to Single-Ion Polymers
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Distinguishing fillings using dynamics of Fukaya categories
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Knot invariants from A-branes
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation with Silivio Micalo
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-5:15 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Seminar 281: International Trade and Finance - “The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach”: Joint with Stanford
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stanford University - Landau Economics Building, Room # 351 | Note change in time and location
Bioactive Metabolite Discovery in Mammalian Physiology
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
MSW Info Session
Information Session | October 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 5 Haviland Hall
Statistical challenges in casualty estimation
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Why Do People Reject Good Science?: Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures by Eugenie Scott
Lecture | October 3 | 4:10 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Quaid Morris, Professor, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
Seminar | October 3 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Henry Mahncke: From PhD to Industry
Colloquium | October 3 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Vasari's Words: Douglas Biow and Henrike Lange in conversation
Presentation | October 3 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 220 Stephens Hall
Spero’s Journey: Building a Biotech and Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance
Lecture | October 3 | 6-7:30 p.m. | TBA
Roblox Info-Session
Information Session | October 3 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Career Connections: Marketing and Media
Social Event | October 3 | 6-8 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way)
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3111 Etcheverry Hall
ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Jack Halberstam
Lecture | October 3 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Out of the Vault: Luminous Procuress
Film - Feature | October 3 | 7-8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
El Mar La Mar: October's Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | October 3 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Cine Latino: Zama
Film - Feature | October 3 | 7 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, 160 (Location to be confirmed. Please check clas.berkeley.edu for details)
