All events
Monday, March 27, 2017
Representation Learning
Workshop | March 27 – 31, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
This workshop will focus on dramatic advances in representation and learning taking place in natural language processing, speech and vision. For instance, deep learning can be thought of as a method that combines the tasks of finding a classifier (which we can think of as the top layer of the deep net) with the task of learning a representation (namely, the representation computed at the... More >
Workshop on Tannishō Commentarial Materials
Conference/Symposium | March 25 – 27, 2017 every day | Jodo Shinshu Center
2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Center for Buddhist Studies, Otani University, Ryukoku University
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read... More >
Latino Social Workers Organization (LSWO) Conference
Conference/Symposium | March 27 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | ASUC Stores (King Student Union)
Transit-Oriented Development: Putting it all Together
Workshop | March 20 – 29, 2017 every Monday, Wednesday & Friday with exceptions | 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Online
Joseph Kott, Transportation Choices for Sustainable Communities; Michael Kodama, Eco-Rapid Transit
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has emerged as a powerful, effective way to integrate land use and public transit. TOD done right links smart growth and sustainability with higher capacity rail or bus transit services. This linkage takes place in the environs of the rail passenger station or the bus rapid transit stop. TOD concentrates workplaces, residences, and supporting retail services... More >
The course is intended for planning staff in local, regional, and state agencies as well as consultants. Community planners, public transit planners, transportation planners, traffic engineers, urban designers, land developers, and decision-makers will al
Seminar 231, Public Finance: NO MEETING
Seminar | March 27 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
Softball vs. Stanford
Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | March 27 | 3 p.m. | Levine-Fricke Field
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Softball hosts Stanford in conference action at Levine-Fricke Field.
Gelu Nita (NJIT): Spectral Kurtosis Statistics of Transient Signals
Seminar | March 27 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Gelu Nita, Center for Solar Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Due to its conceptual simplicity and its proven effectiveness in real-time detection and removal of radio frequency interference (RFI) from radio astronomy data, the Spectral Kurtosis (SK) estimator is likely to become a standard tool embedded in the FPGA/GPU signal processing pipelines of a new generation of radio telescopes. Nevertheless, the SK estimator may be equally sensitive to... More >
Entrepreneurial Toastmasters Club Meeting
Meeting | June 6, 2016 – August 14, 2017 every Monday | 6:20-7:20 p.m. | 373 Soda Hall
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that develops communication and leadership skills through public speaking.
Baseball vs. Long Beach State
Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | March 27 | 7:05 p.m. | Evans Field
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Baseball hosts Long Beach State at Evans Diamond.
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Protecting the New Wonderland: The Origins of the National Park Service
Exhibit - Artifacts | February 26, 2016 – April 1, 2017 every day | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases & 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Signed by President Woodrow Wilson in August 1916, the Organic Act created the National Park Service, the federal bureau that protects our national parks and monuments. Several UC Berkeley alumni with conservationist interests and the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco played key roles in its development. This exhibition explores the origins of the NPS with materials... More >
Beyond Tintin and Superman: The Diversity of Global Comics
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 19, 2016 – April 23, 2017 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
You are invited to this exhibit of comics and graphic novels owned by the UC Berkeley Library. These materials often reflect the socioeconomic, ideological and political realities of the societies in which they are produced. To highlight these diverse realities, and to celebrate our differences, this exhibit presents a selection of comics and graphic novels published in many countries.
We... More >
Guerra Civil at 80
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 1, 2016 – July 1, 2017 every day | Bancroft Library, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Marking the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the exhibition Guerra Civil @ 80 features selections from The Bancroft Library's Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post records and photographic collections, along with posters, books, pamphlets, and other ephemera. A visual and textual display of the struggle to defend the Second Spanish Republic, the... More >
War Ink: California Veterans Exhibit
Exhibit - Photography | November 1, 2016 – May 1, 2017 every day | Doe Library, Brown Gallery (east wing)
Photographs from the celebrated War Ink Project will be on display in Berkeley’s Doe Library in November. The exhibit features striking images of tattoos that express the impact of combat experiences on California veterans. Jason Deitch, co-creator of War Ink and a Cal veteran, hopes the display will “bridge the divide between the veterans and civilian communities.” The project is “both exhibit... More >
Designs from a Distance
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 30 – May 19, 2017 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
CLOSES May 19. This exhibit features design and planning projects on six continents by architects based in the San Francisco Bay Area and held by the Environmental Design Archives.
NEMESTUDIO: 18 Drawings, 7 Models
Exhibit - Multimedia | March 20 – April 25, 2017 every day | 121 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
OPEN THROUGH APRIL 25. Exhibit runs through APR 25. The exhibition presents drawings and models produced for two recent exhibits by NEMESTUDIO, an architectural studio founded by Assistant Professor of Architecture Neyran Turan and Mete Sonmez.
Literatura de Cordel in Moffitt Library
Exhibit - Artifacts | February 16 – June 30, 2017 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library
This exhibition highlights a collection of Brazilian chapbooks or Literatura
de Cordel in the Moffitt Library. These chapbooks are still produced for
mass consumption in the Northeastern Brazil. These are called literature de
cordel as they are hung from a cord in the book-stands so that the consumers
can browse them and select them according to their desires. There are
several themes that... More >
Native Americans: An Intimate View from Afar
Exhibit - Photography | March 9 – April 24, 2017 every day | Stephens Hall, Ethnic Studies Library
Jun Kamata, Associate Professor at ASIA University in Tokyo, has published eight books in Japan. This exhibit includes 25 of his photographs of the Pomo people of northern California. Kamata holds a BA in Native American Studies from UC Berkeley, an MA in American Indian Studies and a Ph.D. in urban planning from UCLA.
