Academic
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Feral Fabric with Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski
Workshop | August 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Monday, August 27, 2018
International Student Resume Week
Workshop | August 27 – 28, 2018 every day | 12-1 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | August 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Vanishing theorems for completed cohomology
Seminar | August 27 | 3-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Differential Geometry Seminar: Classification of gravitational instantons
Seminar | August 27 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity, and Welfare"
Seminar | August 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
“Cellular Barriers to Active Human Telomerase Assembly and Action at Telomeres”
Seminar | August 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Seminar 271, Development: "Heterogeneous Preschool Impact and Close Substitutes: Evidence from a Preschool Construction Program in Cambodia"
Seminar | August 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Analysis/PDE Seminar: Balanced geometric Weyl quantization with applications to QFT on curved spacetimes
Seminar | August 27 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Norse Myths and How to Tell Them
Seminar | August 28 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Is motor insurance ratemaking going to change with telematics and semi-autonomous vehicles?
Seminar | August 28 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
International Student Resume Week
Workshop | August 27 – 28, 2018 every day | 12-1 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
U.S.-English Pronunciation Tips for International Students and Scholars
Workshop | August 28 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room
Seminar 237, Going Negative at the Zero Lower Bound: The Effects of Negative Rates on Bank Profitability.
Seminar | August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors’ Decisions
Seminar | August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: A perfect Morse function on the SU(2) representation variety of a surface
Seminar | August 28 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | August 28 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Semiclassical diffraction by conormal potential singularities
Seminar | August 28 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Schauder bases in Banach lattices
Seminar | August 28 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Probing Complex Interfaces
Seminar | August 28 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure of Supermarket Prices"
Seminar | August 28 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Art for Your Apartment (and dorm)
Presentation | August 28 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Room
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Computer Health Matters: User Friendly Workstations (BEUHS400)
Workshop | August 29 | 8:30-9:30 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | August 29 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Keyboards and Mice: Ergonomic Alternatives (BEUHS401)
Workshop | August 29 | 9:45-10:45 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
ITIN Drop-Off Event
Workshop | August 29 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room
MVZ Social
Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Subcellular Distribution of the Human Proteome
Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Powering LPS transport across the bacterial cell envelope with ABCs"
Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Introduction to Teichmuller space
Seminar | August 29 | 2-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement Workshop
Workshop | August 29 | 2-4 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Spectrum of random non-selfadjoint operators
Seminar | August 29 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Convexity and Plurisubharmonicity of energy functional on Teichmuller space
Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Likelihood Ratio Test for Stochastic Block Models with Bounded Degrees
Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
EECS Colloquium: Fiat Lux: Creating Photoreal Digital Actors (and Environments) for Movies, Games, and Virtual Reality
Colloquium | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
ERG Colloquium: Pierce Gordon: Investigating Innovation Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in International Development
Colloquium | August 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Architectural Design, 1D Walls, 3D Plumbing, and Painting Blind en Route to Scalable Multifunctional Nanoarchitectures for Energy Storage
Colloquium | August 29 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
ChREBP isoforms in pancreatic beta cells
Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Mindfulness for Well-Being
Workshop | August 30 | 9:30-10 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "Formal Challenges in Designing Incentive Compatible Cryptocurrencies"
Seminar | August 30 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions"
Seminar | August 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation: Ensure the Healthy Development of All Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention
Seminar | August 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
IB Seminar: Land and Sea: Evolutionary Innovation and the Dominance of Land
Seminar | August 30 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector"
Seminar | August 30 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
The Ins and Outs of Visual cortex
Seminar | August 30 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees -- without parameter tuning
Seminar | August 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Mathematics Department Colloquium / Applied Math Seminar / Statistics Seminar: Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees – without parameter tuning
Colloquium | August 30 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Habeas Data: A Panel Discussion on Data and Surveillance
Panel Discussion | August 30 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Friday, August 31, 2018
Advanced PubMed
Workshop | August 31 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, Bioscience Library Training Room, 2101 VLSB
Labor Lunch: "Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality": with Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard University)
Seminar | August 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
A New Engel on the Gains from Trade
Seminar | August 31 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 248 Giannini Hall
Fall Recruiting Bootcamp for Int'l Students
Workshop | August 31 | 1-3:30 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Blue & Gold Rooms
Mind the Gap: The Intercalation of van der Waals Heterostructures: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | August 31 | 2-3 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Make the Most of Your Library
Workshop | August 31 | 2-3 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Large Deviations and Localization of the Microcanonical Ensembles Given by Multiple Constraints
Seminar | August 31 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
MENA Salon: Summer in Review
Workshop | August 31 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Logic Colloquium: Neologicist foundations: inconsistent abstraction principles and part-whole
Colloquium | August 31 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: Organization/Remarks on Reconstruction Theorems
Seminar | August 31 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
