Academic
Thursday, October 17, 2019
RAPDP - Intermediate - Fund Management
Workshop | October 17 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Synopsis: An intermediate workshop the covers the monthly reporting and reconciliation process (using PI Portfolio), including updating projections, fulfilling the SAS-115 requirements, and processing corrective transactions such as expense transfers. Learning Objectives: • Understand the importance of implementing key financial controls throughout the life of an award • Perform the day-to-day... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: The classification of noncompact surfaces
Seminar | October 17 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ethan Dlugie, UC BERKELEY
Much of what we know about mapping class groups of compact surfaces stems from their well known classification. In recent years, much effort has been directed towards understanding "big" mapping class groups, i.e. the mapping class groups of surfaces of infinite type. In this talk, we'll walk through Ian Richards' proof that such surfaces are completely classified by their space of ends. We'll... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: Topic TBA
Seminar | October 17 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
Will Gornall, Sauder School of Business; University of British Columbia
Joint with Haas Finance Seminar
Align Yourself for Better Health (BEUHS411)
Workshop | October 17 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Greg Ryan, Ergonomics@Work
Improve your posture through awareness, exercise and ergonomics. Learn about common muscular imbalances and postural patterns. Practice strengthening, stretching, and stability exercises to promote healthy postures and better balance.
BPM 204 Building Teams
Workshop | October 17 | 12:30-4:30 p.m. | #24 University Hall
This workshop is for UC Berkeley Staff. The content covers the characteristics of and the tools necessary for building an effective team.
IB Seminar: Functional diversity and the evolution of morphological disparity in plant reproductive structures
Seminar | October 17 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Andrew Leslie, Stanford University
Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar
Seminar | October 17 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Maria Kurakina
Microsoft Word Mail Merge Automation
Course | October 17 | 1:30-4 p.m. | 239 Campus Shared Services (1608 4th Street, Berkeley)
This course details the process of performing automated electronic mail merges. Emphasis is placed on data source connections, integration and formatting of static and dynamic content, document layout types, and mail merge feature differences with Microsoft Publisher. Learning Objectives * Create calculated fields for use in merge documents. * Prepare and format static document content for... More >
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development"
Seminar | October 17 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
RTMP Seminar: Derived actions of groupoids of 2-Calabi-Yau categories
Seminar | October 17 | 2-3 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
Starting with work of Seidel and Thomas, there has been a great interest in the construction of faithful actions of various classes of groups on derived categories (braid groups, fundamental groups of hyperplane arrangements, mapping class groups). We will describe a general construction of this sort in the setting of algebraic 2-Calabi-Yau triangulated categories. It is applicable to categories... More >
Greg Duncan, UC Irvine School of Education Child Poverty: Next Steps for Research and Policy: IHD/Developmental Colloquium Fall 2019
Colloquium | October 17 | 2:30-4 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Greg Duncan, UC Irvine School of Education
Institute for Human Development
Abstract: Although child poverty rates have fallen by half in the past 50 years, 13% of U.S. children (9.7 million in all) live in families with incomes below the poverty line. Drawing from a recently released National Academy report on child poverty, I briefly summarize causal evidence on the consequences of poverty for children’s development as well as research on the impacts of anti-poverty... More >
ESPM Seminar Series, Fall 2019: Robin Snyder
Seminar | October 17 | 3:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Robin Snyder, Associate Professor of Biology at Case Western Reserve University, will present: "The role of luck in individual success." Coffee will be available before the talk at 2:30PM in 139 Mulford; meet the speaker after the talk in 139 Mulford Hall.
CRG Thursday Forum Series: Amplifying Memory through Many Minds: Performance and Cultural Belongings
Panel Discussion | October 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 691 Barrows Hall
Tanya Lukin Linklater, Alutiiq choreographer and performer
Bélgica del Río; Jeni(f)fer Tamayo
Alutiiq choreographer and performer Tanya Lukin Linklater shares her work and discusses the museum as performance space with
TDPS scholars Bélgica del Río and Jeni(f)fer Tamayo.
Seminar 242, Econometrics: "Inference based on Kotlarski's Identity"
Seminar | October 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Takuya Ura, University of California, Davis
Taste Matters: Cosmopolitan Aspiration and Cultural Belonging in South Korean Culinary Dramas
Colloquium | October 17 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Jenny Wang Medina, Emory University
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Food-related cultural content exploded in South Korea in the 2000s, becoming fodder for everything from literary fiction to video games, and turning the country and the world into a map of tasty eateries (matjip). Scholarship on food media in Korea has focused on nationalist formulations of Korean cuisine, the rise of celebrity chefs, and vicarious visual consumption through reality programming... More >
“Some Live in Darkness, Some Live in Light”: China and Elsewhere in 1900
Colloquium | October 17 | 4-6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room
Peter Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
At the turn of the twentieth century, in a brilliant spectacle, the Western powers and Japan demonstrated their imperial prowess at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Several months later, the same powers invaded China to lift the siege of the foreign legations by the Boxers and the Qing government. The Qing government fell to its nadir, but China’s inextricable links to global trends soon brought... More >
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Atoms of free convolutions and their relevance to random matrices
Colloquium | October 17 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Hari Bercovici, Indiana University Bloomington
It has been known for some time that the free convolution of two nontrivial probability measures on the real line has few point masses. In fact, every point mass of the convolution is uniquely written as the sum of two point masses of the original measures, and the two points in question are obtained as boundary values of the analytic subordination functions that arise in this context. This is... More >
