Academic
Monday, November 13, 2017
Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium
Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.
Implementing the CA History-Social Science Framework
Workshop | November 13 | 2407 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project
The UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project (UCBHSSP) will introduce participants to the new History-Social Science framework, which was adopted in July 2016. A central aspect of both efforts is to support teaches in developing inquiry-driven courses that integrate the H-SS Standards (content and historical analysis) and Common Core Standards for Literacy in History while integrating ELD... More >
The 19th Party Congress and the Future of the Chinese Communist Party
Conference/Symposium | November 13 | 8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | IEAS Fifth Floor Conference Room | Note change in time
1995 University Avenue, room 510A, Berkeley, CA 94704-2318
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), People's University (Beijing, China), Shandong University (Jinan, China), Institute of East Asian Studies
The Communist Party of China held its 19th Party Congress in October 2017. Aside from the sweeping personnel turnover, this Congress introduced ideological and organizational innovations that will guide the leadership and the nation for the next five years and beyond. China's direction is of global import, as China has in surprisingly short order become a global superpower, challenging the... More >
Copyright and Fair Use for Digital Projects
Workshop | November 13 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, D-Lab, 350 Barrows Hall
Rachael Samberg, Library
Library, D-Lab
This training will help you navigate the copyright, fair use, and usage rights of including third-party content in your digital project. Whether you seek to embed video from other sources for analysis, post material you scanned from a visit to the archives, add images, upload documents, or more, understanding the basics of copyright and discovering a workflow for answering copyright-related... More >
Open to UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students.
Dissertation talk: A Highly Productive Implementation of an Out-of-Order Processor Generator
Presentation | November 13 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 373 Soda Hall
Christopher Celio, UC Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
General-purpose serial-thread performance gains have become more difficult for industry to realize due to the slowing down of process improvements. In this new regime of poor process scaling, continued performance improvement relies on a number of small-scale micro-architectural enhancements. However, software simulator-based models, which computer architecture research has largely relied upon,... More >
PF Lunch Seminar:
Seminar | November 13 | 12-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Michael Walker - "Informal Taxation and Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya"
Avner Shlain - "High Demand for Redistribution but Low Voluntary Giving: Evidence from Small and Large Groups"
RSVP online by November 8.
Design as a sequential decision process with applications in structural engineering: Semm Seminar
Seminar | November 13 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Gordon Warn, Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
The engineering design community is being tasked with generating designs that must satisfy ever more criteria. This seminar presents an emerging design concept that closely couples set-based design with model-based simulation treating the design process formally as a sequential decision process (SDP).
Agroecological Approaches for Addressing Climate Challenges in Agriculture: Processes, Predictions, and Evidence
Seminar | November 13 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Lounge
Timothy Bowles, UC Berkeley
Center for Diversified Farming Systems
As climate change progresses, extreme weather will further expose the vulnerabilities of highly-simplified, intensive agricultural systems. Agroecological approaches that diversify ag systems at multiple scales will be discussed in this seminar.
Preschoolers rationally use evidence to select causally relevant variables
Colloquium | November 13 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Mariel Goddu, Department of Psychology
Young children are powerful causal learners: they readily track statistical contingencies between causes and effects, and they can use this evidence to infer general rules for a system (e.g., red blocks, but not blue blocks, will cause this machine to play music). However, little is known about the ways in which children 1.) transfer the causal rules they form in one context to produce new... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Frieze patterns
Seminar | November 13 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Khrystyna Serhiyenko, UC Berkeley
A frieze is a lattice of shifted rows of positive integers satisfying a diamond rule: the determinant of every 2 by 2 matrix formed by the neighboring entries is 1. Friezes were first studied by Conway and Coxeter in 1970's, but they gained fresh interest in the last decade in relation to cluster algebras. In particular, there exists a bijection between friezes and cluster algebras of type A. We... More >
Political Economy Seminar/PERL
Seminar | November 13 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Saad Gulzar, Professor, Stanford
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
Differential Geometry Seminar: High frequency limits in general relativity
Seminar | November 13 | 1-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Jonathan Luk, Stanford
It is known in the physics literature that "high-frequency weak limits" of solutions to the Einstein vacuum equations are not necessarily vacuum solutions, but may have a non-trivial stress-energy-momentum tensor, which can be viewed physically as “effective matter fields” arising from back-reaction of high frequency gravitational waves. A conjecture that can be found in the physics... More >
Seminar 211, Economic History: Checks, Balances and Autocracy: Historical Evidence from China
Seminar | November 13 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Weijia Li, UC Berkeley
String-Math Seminar: BPS Graphs of Class S Theories
Seminar | November 13 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Pietro Longhi, UPPSALA U.
BPS quivers and Spectral Networks are two powerful tools for computing BPS spectra in 4d N=2 theories. On the Coulomb branches of these theories, the BPS spectrum is well-defined only away from walls of marginal stability, where wall-crossing phenomena take place. Surprisingly, while BPS spectra are ill-defined, there is a lot of information hidden in spectral networks at maximal intersections of... More >
BLISS Seminar: Primal-dual first-order methods for convex optimization
Seminar | November 13 | 3-4 p.m. | Cory Hall, 540 Cory
Lieven Vandenberghe, UCLA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
The talk will be on primal-dual first order methods derived from the Douglas-Rachford operator splitting algorithm. We will start with some applications to image deblurring problems
that illustrate the versatility of the Douglas-Rachford method for primal-dual decomposition in large scale optimization. The second part of the talk will be concerned with the important primal-dual hybrid gradient... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Towards a $p$-adic Deligne–Lusztig theory
Seminar | November 13 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Charlotte Chan, University of Michigan
The cuspidal representations of $GL_2(\mathbf F_q)$ can be realized in the cohomology of the Drinfeld curve. This is an example of Deligne–Lusztig theory, which gives a geometric construction of the representations of finite reductive groups. In 1979, Lusztig proposed a conjectural analogue of this story for p-adic groups. We verify this conjecture in the setting of division algebras and show... More >
Python FUN!damentals: Part 3
Workshop | November 13 | 4-7 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Rachel Jansen, D-Lab
This four-part, interactive workshop series is your complete introduction to programming Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. By the end of the series, you will be able to apply your knowledge of basic principles of programming and data manipulation to a real-world social science application.
Cal ID required to enter Moffitt Library
free
Design Field Notes: Andre Yousefi
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
PCH Lime Lab co-founder Andre Yousefi will speak as part of Design Field Notes, a pop-up series that brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio to share ideas, projects, and practices.
Designing and piloting a scalable health program for schools in India
Colloquium | November 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
David I. Levine, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Handwashing with soap, treating drinking water, and safe sanitation could prevent over a million children from dying each year. Standard health interventions provide supplies and information, but usually lead to only modest behavior change.
We have created and spent 3 years piloting a curriculum of vivid activities, engaging stories and simple routines to teach, change norms, and increase... More >
Hamilton in the White House: An On the Same Page panel
Panel Discussion | November 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Donatella Galella, Professor, Theatre, Film, and Digital Production, UC Riverside; Philip Gentry, Professor, University of Delaware; Philip Kan Gotanda, Professor, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UCB
Mary Ann Smart, Professor, Music Department, UCB
Alexander Hamilton himself never occupied the White House, but the premise of this panel is that Hamilton the musical has been symbolically in and of the White House since Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast members performed an early draft of the title song there in 2012. In its first flush of success the show sounded to some like a perfect musical accompaniment for a “post-racial” America, while others... More >
Free and open to everyone on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Beyond the First: Healing and Harmful Speech
Panel Discussion | November 13 | 4-6 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Booth Auditorium
Robert Levenson, Professor, Psychology; Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Associate Professor, Psychology and Associate Dean for Diversity, Letters & Science; Geoffrey Nunberg, Adjunct Professor, School of Information; Victoria Plaut, Professor, Law and Social Science
Eva Paterson, President and Co-Founder, Equal Justice Society and Berkeley Law Class of 1975
Office of the Chancellor
The next faculty forum in the free speech series will explore the impacts of speech on the mind, body, and soul. Hosted by Chancellor Carol T. Christ.
Please bring campus or other picture ID to verify your affiliation. Doors will open at 3:30. Seating is limited.
Integrating genomic data into predictions of climate change adaptation
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Rachael Bay, University of California, Los Angeles
Seminar 271, Development: "Global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits"
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Tamma Carleton, Berkeley
Andrew Braisted Award Lecture: “Connecting chemistry to biology to understand why O-GlcNAc transferase is essential”
Seminar | November 13 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Suzanne Walker, Harvard Medical School
SLAM: Perspectives on Academia after Working in Industry
Seminar | November 13 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Professor Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin- Madison
SLAM Seminar: Perspectives on Academia after Working in Industry
Seminar | November 13 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Professor Jennifer Schomaker, University of Wisconsin- Madison
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Science, Leadership and Management (SLAM) seminar.
