All events
Monday, October 28, 2019
Climate Justice Week: Learn what climate justice means and how you can take part!
Special Event | October 28 – November 1, 2019 every day | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, bNorth SERC Space
Student Environmental Resource Center
Climate Justice Week aims to create an intentional space to engage the wider UC Berkeley community on the intersections of climate change and social justice. Find more information at serc.berkeley.edu/cjw
Dissertation Talk: Design and Applications of Portable Field Emission Devices
Seminar | October 28 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Nishita Deka
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Vacuum tubes were integral to the rise of electronics in the 20th century, enabling the development of many core technologies. Although vacuum tubes have since been superseded by solid-state technology, devices based on electron transport in vacuum offer some unique technical advantages over their solid-state counterparts. An interest in leveraging these performance advantages has led to the... More >
Beyond photons: mechanosensing in the healthy and diseased eye
Seminar | October 28 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
David Krizaj, School of Medicine, University of Utah
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
The vertebrate eye is a biomechanically privileged environment in which intrinsically generated pressure modulates the development, organization and function of ocular tissues. Historically, molecular mechanisms that sense and transduce pressure in the eye tended to be overlooked despite the critical roles their dysregulation might play in visual dysfunctions such as myopia, papilledema and... More >
Costume Building Open House
Workshop | October 28 – 31, 2019 every day | 12-4 p.m. | 141 Sutardja Dai Hall
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
The CITRIS Invention Lab is hosting a week of costume building to get you ready for Halloween. The event is open to all; waivers just need to be signed by non-Maker Pass holders.
We’ll be kicking the open house off with a noontime “Cosplay Strategies” session (informal, no lunch provided) on Monday, October 28th, hosted by last year’s contest winner (Dan Chapman) and focusing on cheap and fast... More >
High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics: Berkeley Fluids Seminar
Seminar | October 28 | 12-1 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Professor Per-Olof Persson, Department of Mathematics; University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Abstract: It is widely believed that high-order accurate numerical methods, for example discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods, will eventually replace the traditional low-order methods in the solution of many problems, including fluid flow, solid dynamics, and wave propagation. The talk will give an overview of this field, including the theoretical background of the numerical schemes, the efficient... More >
Meeting Conservation: Public Engagement at the California Academy of Sciences
Seminar | October 28 | 12-1 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dr. Elizabeth Babcock, California Academy of Sciences
Society for Conservation Biology- Berkeley Chapter
Learn about the powerful impact of museums, planetariums, and aquaria on science and conservation engagement. Network with a leader in the field and White House "Champion of Change" to see if a museum career might be the path for you.
GSPP Research Seminar
Seminar | October 28 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Goldman School of Public Policy, Room 105 (in 2607 Hearst St)
Amy Lerman, UC Berkeley
Alyssa Mooney, UC Berkeley
Goldman School of Public Policy
Goldman School of Public Policy Research Seminar
Mondays 12:10-1:30
Pizza Served
Combinatorics Seminar: Kazhdan-Lusztig immanants and k-positive matrices
Seminar | October 28 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Melissa Sherman-Bennett, Harvard University
Immanants are functions on square matrices which generalize the determinant and permanent. This talk will focus on positivity properties of Kazhdan-Lusztig (K-L) immanants, which are immanants defined using q=1 specializations of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. Rhoades and Skandera (2006) showed, using work of Haiman (1993) and Stembridge (1991), that K-L immanants are nonnegative on matrices whose... More >
Political Economy Seminar: “Populism, Stigma, and Political Correctness”
Seminar | October 28 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Mattias Polborn, Professor, Vanderbilt University
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
Seminar 211, Economic History: Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials
Seminar | October 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Jhacova Williams, Clemson University
War in Raqqa: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Special Event | October 22 – December 20, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 2-5 p.m. | 2224 Piedmont (Center for Digital Archaeology )
Experience photographs, videos, open source investigations, and 360° Virtual Reality that document the assault on Raqqa, Syria by coalition forces in 2017. The show draws on Amnesty International's investigations, supported by students in UC Berkeley's Human Rights Investigations Lab and the Digital Verification Corps worldwide. Immerse yourself in video, testimonials, satellite imagery and maps... More >
Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Architectures with DNA
Seminar | October 28 | 2-3 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall
Grigory Tikhomirov, California Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Nature has evolved to self-assemble complex functional architectures in a sustainable bottom-up way. Is it possible to develop a new approach to building complex devices that combines the strengths of biomolecular self-assembly and systematic engineering?
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Asymptotic $\varepsilon $-independence
Seminar | October 28 | 3-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Ian Charlesworth, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow UC Berkeley
I will speak about $\varepsilon $-independence, which an interpolation of classical and free independence originally studied by M$ł{}$otkowski and later by Speicher and Wysoczanski. To be $\varepsilon $-independent, a family of algebras in particular must satisfy pairwise classical or free independence relations prescribed by a {0,1}-matrix $\varepsilon $, as well as more complicated higher... More >
Spontaneous Brain Oscillations and Perceptual Decision Making
Colloquium | October 28 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, 2121 Berkeley Way, Room 1104
Jason Samaha, Department of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Manager Mastermind Group
Workshop | October 28 | 3-4 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Shirley Giraldo
This is a solution-oriented social learning development opportunity where we share strategies on pressing topics of the day, and build community. Please RSVP and submit questions you'd like to ask other managers about in the link provided.
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Diophantine analysis on moduli of local systems
Seminar | October 28 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Peter Whang, MIT
Moduli spaces for special linear rank two local systems (with prescribed boundary traces) on topological surfaces are basic objects in geometry. After motivating their Diophantine study, we use mapping class group dynamics and differential geometric tools to establish a structure theorem for the integral points of these varieties, showing that they are finitely generated in a suitable sense and... More >
Special Analysis Seminar: Local bound on the number of nodal domains
Seminar | October 28 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 959 Evans Hall
Aleksandr Logunov, Princeton University
Courant's theorem states that the $k$-th eigenfunction of the Laplace operator on a closed Riemannian manifold has at most $k$ nodal domains. Given a ball of radius $r$, we will discuss how many nodal domains can intersect this ball (depending on $r$ and $k$). Based on a joint work (in progress) with S. Chanillo and E. Malinnikova.
New models of language dynamics: The role of cross-linguistic data
Colloquium | October 28 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Damian Blasi, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University (US) Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany)
The status of cross-linguistic data in theories of language change and evolution has varied substantially over the course of the history of the discipline. The comparative study of languages and language histories has been a classic testing ground for hypotheses on the subject, but in an influential recent line of work it has been systematically sidelined in favor of highly controllable... More >
Mitotic checkpoint regulators in genome stability and insulin signaling
Seminar | October 28 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Hongtao Yu, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The spindle checkpoint ensures the fidelity of chromosome segregation during mitosis and guards against aneuploidy. Several checkpoint proteins have a moonlighting function to control insulin signaling in interphase. Recent studies on the crosstalk between the cell division module and insulin signaling will be discussed.
Seminar 271, Development: Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom-Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India
Seminar | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Manaswini Rao, UC Berkeley
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Panel Discussion | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of History; Bryan Wagner, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English; Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Please join us on October 28, 2019 from 4-5:30 pm for an engaging discussion about They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley.
RSVP online by October 26.
The Language of Incorporation: The Chinese Migrants in Central-Eastern Europe
Lecture | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Amy H. Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Government, UT Austin
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
The Chinese are one of the largest migrant groups in Central-Eastern Europe. Yet, we know very little about their behavior as a group or the region as a migration destination. In this talk, I draw on original survey data, interview observations, and newspaper text analysis in five countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia). I demonstrate how the Chinese – specifically those in... More >
POSTPONED - Measuring the Impact of Dual Enrollment on Postsecondary Outcomes in NYC Public Schools
Colloquium | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Tolani Britton, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Tolani Britton uses quasi-experimental methods to explore the impact of policies on students’ transition from secondary school to higher education, as well as access and retention in higher education. Recent work explores whether the disproportionate increase in incarceration of Black males for drug possessions and manufacture increased gaps in college enrollment rates by race and gender over two... More >
Tolani Britton
A People's Weapon: Law and Propaganda in the Early People's Republic of China
Colloquium | October 28 | 4-6 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), IEAS Conference Room 510
Jennifer Altehenger, Associate Professor in Chinese History, University of Oxford
Rachel Stern, Professor, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Li Ka Shing Foundation Program in Modern Chinese History, Center for the Study of Law & Society
Throughout the history of modern China, people have been taught about their country's laws. Even as polities and regimes changed, they shared in common the conviction that to learn, know, and abide by laws should be an elementary civic duty. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the new government invested even more energy than its predecessors into devising methods to... More >
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Panel Discussion | October 28 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall | Canceled
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of History; Bryan Wagner, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English; Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research in Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies
DUE TO WEATHER AND POWER OUTAGES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES.
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "The Use and Misuse of Coordinated Punishments"
Seminar | October 28 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Daniel Barron, Northwestern University
Communication facilitates cooperation by ensuring that deviators are collectively punished. We explore how players might misuse messages to threaten one another, and we identify ways in which organizations can deter these threats and restore cooperation. In our model, a principal plays trust games with a sequence of short-run agents who communicate with each other. A shirking agent can extort pay... More >
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Adapting analysis/synthesis pairs to pseudodifferential operators
Seminar | October 28 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Melissa Tacy, University of Otago
Many problems in harmonic analysis are resolved by producing an analysis/synthesis of function spaces. For example the Fourier or wavelet decompositions. In this talk I will discuss how to use Fourier integral operators to adapt analysis/synthesis pairs (developed for the constant coefficient PDE case) to the pseudodifferential setting. I will demonstrate how adapting a wavelet decomposition can... More >
CANCELED: TDPS Meet and Greet with Spring Directors
Information Session | October 28 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall) | Canceled
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Due to the anticipated campus power outage, this event has been canceled. For information regarding spring productions and directors, please check tdps.berkeley.edu over the next few weeks.
Directors Mina Morita and Patrick Russell
Cal STAPH Horror D'oeuvres Part Deux
Social Event | October 28 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Cal STAPH is hosting a Halloween potluck for students in the School of Public Health.
PSC Student Leaders Training #2 (by invitation only)
Meeting | October 28 | 6-8 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Relationship Among People - CANCELED
Colloquium | October 28 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall | Canceled
Daisuke Sakai, Co-Founder, teamLab
Dana Buntrock, Professor, UC Berkeley
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
Daisuke Sakai, a co-founder of teamLab, speaks about the theme of 'Relationships Among People', one of teamLab’s concepts which aims to explore a new relationship among people, and to make the presence of others a positive experience through digital art. Sakai will introduce such concept along with teamLab’s works.
teamLab was founded in 2001 as an... More >
Free
Holloway Poetry Series: Don Bogen / with Dana Swensen
Reading - Literary | October 28 | 6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room 315 Wheeler Hall
The San Quentin Project
Lecture | October 28 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Nigel Poor; Michael Nelson
Presented by BAMPFA
Nigel Poor, Artist
Michael Nelson, Writer and Activist
Artist Nigel Poor presents various collaborative projects she has worked on inside San Quentin Prison, including the San Quentin archive project currently on view at BAMPFA, and talks about the award winning podcast Ear Hustle, which she co-created and co-hosts with residents of San Quentin.
The exhibition The... More >
Heart Chan Meditation
Course | September 23 – November 11, 2019 every Monday | 7-8:30 p.m. | Anthony Hall
Heart Chan, Heart Chan at Berkeley
Heart Chan
Start the journey for Heart Chan Meditation
seeking harmony of mind, body, spirit
gain true wisdom and joy from your inner self
make meditation part of your modern daily life.
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
The Life and Career of Kaneji Domoto
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 19 – December 16, 2019 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
This exhibition explores the complex story behind the only American Japanese architect and landscape architect at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian community, in Westchester County, New York in 1944.
Photographs by Ken Light: American Stories
Exhibit - Photography | August 28, 2019 – May 15, 2020 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall, Townsend Center, 220 Stephens
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Journalism, Graduate School of
In an exhibition of selected works from the past five decades, documentary photographer Ken Light probes social and political issues in America.
Viewing hours are generally Monday-Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. The exhibit is located in a space also used for events. Please contact the Townsend Center to confirm availability.
The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020 every day | Free Speech Movement Cafe (Moffitt Library)
Library, Berkeley Language Center
Celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. It is the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that will build on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis - librarians, professors,... More >
Power and the People: The U.S. Census and Who Counts
Exhibit - Artifacts | September 16, 2019 – March 1, 2020 every day | Doe Library, Bernice Layne Brown Gallery
Since 1790, the U.S. Census has impacted many aspects of our lives. It determines congressional apportionment, decides which communities receive a slice of $500,000,000,000 in federal funds, and provides information essential to policy making. Census questions also reflect the beliefs, concerns and prejudices of their time, starting with the first census which mandated that enslaved people be... More >
Power to the People
You Are On Indian Land: There There (On the Same Page 2019): An Exhibit of Library Collections relating to the Native American community of Oakland
Exhibit - Multimedia | August 26, 2019 – January 31, 2020 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 3rd floor
Tommy Orange's debut novel, There There, is this year's On the Same Page program reading. The entire campus community is encouraged to read the book and participate in classes and events this Fall.
“Orange’s debut is an ambitious meditation on identity and its broken alternatives, on myth filtered through the lens of time and poverty and urban life. Its many short chapters are told through a... More >
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