All events
Friday, October 4, 2019
Julia Miele Rodas, “Autism and Narrative Invention in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.”
Lecture | October 4 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | 330 Wheeler Hall
Julia Miele Rodas, Professor, English Department, Bronx Community College / CUNY co-chair, University Seminar in Disability, Culture, and Society at Columbia University
Abstract: Is the novel a form of autistic innovation? Presenting work from the recently published Autistic Disturbances (UMichP, 2018), Julia Miele Rodas will explore autistic dimensions of Robinson Crusoe. Interweaving conversation and formal reading, this talk will first consider how the novel’s themes of human isolation and imprisonment play into autism stereotypes. Ultimately, however, the... More >
Essig Brunch Seminar: Entomology - insects, arachnids, and other arthopods
Seminar | October 4 – December 13, 2019 every Friday with exceptions | 10-11 a.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 1101 (UCMP "fishbowl")
See website for current speaker and topic
Essig Museum of Entomology
Weekly seminar series focused on insect ecology, evolution, behavior, and other research topics.
Sunflower: Brushpainting with Karen LeGault
Workshop | October 4 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join artist, Karen LeGault, for a brush painting workshop celebrating seasonal plants in the Garden. Each month will focus on a different subject: grape vines, sunflowers, persimmon, and the pine tree.
$75, $65 members
UCHRI Funding Workshop for Graduate Students
Workshop | October 4 | 11-11:45 a.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Shana Melnysyn, research grants manager at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), will host a workshop for graduate students interested in learning about UCHRI's grant opportunities and tips for successful proposals. UCHRI funding opportunities for graduate students include dissertation support grants and multicampus graduate student working groups.
BIDS Forum: Information and Uncertainty in Data Science
Meeting | October 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 190B Doe Library
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Full details about this meeting will be posted here: https://bids.berkeley.edu/events.
Certificate Program in Clinical Research Conduct and Management Online Information Session
Information Session | October 4 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
, Berkeley, CA
Learn how this professional certificate can help you launch or advance your career in clinical research by enhancing your knowledge of clinical trials. For more information about the program, visit extension.berkeley.edu/cert/clinical.html.
Higher Education Researchers Workgroup
Meeting | October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, CSHE Conference Room, 768
Center for Studies in Higher Education
The goal of this new group is to bring together qualitative and quantitative higher education researchers working on issues at Berkeley, the... More >
RSVP by emailing Anne Maclachlan at maclach@berkeley.edu
UCHRI Funding Workshop for UC Faculty
Workshop | October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Shana Melnysyn, research grants manager at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI), will host a workshop for faculty members who want to learn more about UCHRI's grant opportunities and tips for successful proposals. The workshop is open to all UC Berkeley ladder-rank faculty members.
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | October 4 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Nadia Qabazard
Fit some fun and fitness into your day with these free, beginner dance classes. Zumba will be 9/6, Samba will be 10/4, Hula / Polynesian will be 11/1, and Zumba / Samba will be 12/6. No partner required. Comfortable clothing and athletic shoes recommended.
Narkomania: Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine
Lecture | October 4 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Kroeber Hall, Garron Reading Room (346)
Jennifer J. Carroll, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Elon University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), UCB Medical Anthropology Program, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine
In the last few years, Ukraine has born witness to the major geopolitical crises of our decade: revolution; state-sponsored killings; foreign invasion; forceful occupation by a major world power; and ongoing war. Ukraine is also experiencing an enormous opioid epidemic and is home to the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world. Despite all of our differences, Ukraine’s ongoing struggles with... More >
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: New Optimization Strategies in Inverse Electromagnetic Design
Seminar | October 4 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, The Hogan Room, 521
Jonathan Fan, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I will discuss new advances in the inverse design of nanophotonic devices. As a model
system, I will focus on the application of these design modalities to high efficiency metasurfaces, though
the concepts are general and broadly apply to passive electromagnetic systems.
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 3 – December 29, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plants from around the world, learn about the vast diversity in the collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission. Advanced registration not required
OPT Document Check Workshop
Workshop | October 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 182 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare to put together your documents for your OPT application. This workshop will cover required documents, how to fill out the forms, and most common mistakes in the application. In addition, there will be a Q&A portion during which you can ask specific questions about your own application.
Please note that this workshop is specifically for OPT... More >
Engineering 2D Materials With A Twist: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | October 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Cory Dean, Columbia University, Physics
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Atomically thin crystals such as graphene, boron nitride and the transition metal dichalcogenides continue to attract enormous interest. Encompassing a wide range of properties, including single-particle, topological and correlated phenomena, these 2D materials represent a rich class of materials in which to explore both novel physical phenomena and new technological pursuits.
By integrating... More >
MENA Salon: Protests in Egypt
Workshop | October 4 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Every Friday the CMES hosts an informal guided discussion of current events in the Middle East and North Africa, open to all.
On Friday, September 20, protests erupted in cities across Egypt. The apparent trigger was a series of online videos posted by Mohamed Ali, a former actor and contractor, now living abroad. Based on his experience as a contractor for the Egyptian military, Ali is... More >
Composition Colloquium: workshop - Digital Hardware at CNMAT
Colloquium | October 4 | 3 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
workshop: Digital Hardware at CNMAT
Berkeley Mīmāṃsā Reading Workshop: with Alexis Sanderson
Workshop | October 4 | 3-6:30 p.m. | 341 Dwinelle Hall
Alexis Sanderson, Spalding Professor Emeritus of Eastern Religions and Ethics, University of Oxford
Institute for South Asia Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professorship in South and Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, South Asia Studies Theories and Methods Townsend Working Group, Saṃskṛtaparaṃparā: The Berkeley Sanskrit Studies Fund, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley is hosting a two-day Mīmāṃsā Reading Workshop with Professor Alexis Sanderson on October 4 and 5, 2019.
This School’s Social Mission: The Early Days
Seminar | October 4 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Michael Buckland
This School was founded in 1918 on a strong social agenda; Professor Buckland will review the past 101 years of its mission.
Making the World "Chinese"
Colloquium | October 4 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Xiaofeng Tang, Professor, Research Institute for Historical Geography, Peking University
Michael Nylan, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Using mainly materials from the Shang and Zhou eras, this talk will investigate the special characteristics of historical geography in early China. The lecture will discuss such concepts as the Central States (Zhongguo), the traces of Yu, the Nine Provinces, the Five Zones, all of which imply some level of advanced civilization. Then, too, the geographic area we associate with "Chinese... More >
Exploring the synthesis and reactivity of polyoxovanadate-alkoxides: Novel reductive chemistries with metal-oxide clusters
Seminar | October 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Ellen Matson, Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
The development of alternative fuels from secure and sustainable resources is one of the greatest environmental and economic challenge society faces today. The development of methods for the conversion of inert and abundant, gaseous contaminants into energy-rich fuels and commodity chemicals requires the generation of catalysts that can perform a complex series of multi-electron and multi-proton... More >
Logic Colloquium: Comparison principles and very large cardinals
Colloquium | October 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Gabriel Goldberg, UC Berkeley
In 1947, Gödel proposed a program to solve the Continuum Problem, as well as many other unsolvable problems of set theory, by supplementing the traditional ZFC axioms with large cardinal axioms. Although this program has been remarkably successful, serious limitations have since been discovered: for example, it turns out that large cardinal axioms do not help resolve the Continuum Problem... More >
Towards Robust Machine Learning for Transportation Systems
Seminar | October 4 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Justin Dauwels, Nanyeng Technological University
Institute of Transportation Studies
Nanyeng Technological University's Justin Dauwels will present Towards Robust Machine Learning for Transportation Systems on Oct. 4, 2019 at 4 p.m. in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the ITS Transportation Seminar.
TDPS Workshop Performance: Romeo and Juliet
Performing Arts - Theater | October 3 – 4, 2019 every day | 6-7:30 p.m. | Doe Library, Memorial Pool | Note change in date and time
Hailey Buck
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Can love wash away the sins of the past? For this environmental, interactive staging of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at Memorial Pool, choose to sit with the Capulets or Montagues and cheer on your side of the feud. You’ve never seen this tale of humor and heartbreak quite this close!
Free & Open to the Public. Make reservations online
The Blood of Passion on the Volcano: (Huoshan Qingxie)
Film - Feature | October 4 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A warlord’s lusty nephew destroys a simple farming family’s pastoral idyll and sends its favorite son into tropical exile in Sun Yu’s delirious combination of Chinese peasant drama and Hollywood-style decadent island exotica. Brokenhearted after his family’s ruin, our hero (Zheng Junli) winds up in a South Seas hellhole seemingly borrowed from some leftover Lon Chaney film set, where saloon... More >
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | October 4 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, Music Director
$25 General Admission, $20 Senior, Student (non-UCB), UCB Faculty/Staff, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510.642.9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Sick Plant Clinic
Special Event | February 4, 2017 – December 7, 2019 the first Saturday of the month every month with exceptions | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join the Garden for our monthly Sick Plant Clinic and find out which diseases ail your plants. Entomologists are also available to identify the pests that are living in your plants too! Please cover plants and disease samples in containers or bags before entering the Garden.
BERKELEY CLINIC DIAGNOSES RESIDENTS' PLANTS
Lauren Reed-Guy, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle June... More >
Berkeley Mīmāṃsā Reading Workshop: with Alexis Sanderson
Workshop | October 5 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | 341 Dwinelle Hall
Alexis Sanderson, Spalding Professor Emeritus of Eastern Religions and Ethics, University of Oxford
Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professorship in South and Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, South Asia Studies Theories and Methods Townsend Working Group, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Saṃskṛtaparaṃparā: The Berkeley Sanskrit Studies Fund
The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley is hosting a two-day Mīmāṃsā Reading Workshop with Professor Alexis Sanderson on October 4 and 5, 2019.
Arguing for Social Justice: Saturday Seminar
Workshop | October 5 | 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Longfellow Middle School
1500 Derby St., Berkeley, CA 94703
BASP and BAMP
The convergence among science, math, and language provides the foundation for making viable social justice arguments. This year we will focus on how environmental literacy can be developed by using this convergence.
$40
Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
Colloquium | October 5 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Felice Fischer, Luther W. Brady Curator of Japanese Art and Senior Curator of East Asian Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Patricia Graham, Adjunct Research Associate, University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies; Richard Pegg, Curator and Director, MacLean Collection of Asian Art and Maps in Chicago
Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Complementing the exhibition Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, this colloquium explores the fascinating relations between Chinese art of the Ming and Qing dynasties and Japanese art of the Edo period, especially Hyakusen’s role in the transformation of painting in eighteenth-century Japan. Presenters are curators Felice Fischer and Richard Pegg and scholar Patricia... More >
Included with admission to museum
Colloquium: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting
Colloquium | October 5 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Complementing the exhibition Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, this colloquium explores the fascinating relations between Chinese art of the Ming and Qing dynasties and Japanese art of the Edo period, especially Hyakusen’s role in the transformation of painting in eighteenth-century Japan. Presenters are curators Felice Fischer and Richard Pegg and scholar Patricia Graham;... More >
Crows and Sparrows: (Wuya yu maque)
Film - Feature | October 5 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A Shanghai apartment building serves as a microcosm of China’s class struggles in Zheng Junli’s striking urban drama, filmed during the last days of China’s Nationalist rule and already looking forward to, as one character states, “a New Society.” A scheming Nationalist official and his greedy wife purchase an apartment building and proceed to lord it over the hardworking families still renting... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 3 – December 29, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plants from around the world, learn about the vast diversity in the collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission. Advanced registration not required
Why Can’t I Be Me? Around You
Film - Documentary | October 5 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A chance encounter between recently transitioned mechanic Rusty Tidenberg and filmmaker Harrod Blank (Wild Wheels, Automorphosis) sparks a captivating portrayal of the multifaceted life of a transgender woman. Blank, son of revered documentarian Les Blank, first hires Rusty to work on his broken-down van, an interactive art car adorned with cameras, leading to their unexpected collaboration.... More >
Analog Light Show Special Effects Workshop
Workshop | October 5 | 5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Join the Light Appreciation Society, a loosely organized, nonhierarchical group of light show practitioners from the Bay Area, for a participatory dive into mind-altering illuminated experimentation and projection play. Come prepared to savor the optically uncanny depth of moiré patterns, the heavenly eruption of a projected kaleidoscopic image, and the otherworldly tranquility of a well-crafted,... More >
Marighella
Film - Feature | October 5 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Carlos Marighella, a politician, writer, and Marxist insurrectionist, remains one of Brazil’s most divisive historical figures. During the military coup of 1964 and subsequent right-wing dictatorship, Marighella fought against the destruction of human rights, leaving his wife and child behind to pursue a revolution in the streets that would ultimately lead to his bloody assassination. Marighella... More >
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | October 5 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, Music Director
$25 General Admission, $20 Senior, Student (non-UCB), UCB Faculty/Staff, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510.642.9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Renée Fleming, soprano
Performing Arts - Music | October 5 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Versatile soprano Renée Fleming, longtime star of the opera stage, has also appeared on two award-winning film soundtracks and in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel. Fleming’s recital appearances are intimate and rare, with repertoire spanning German art song, operatic arias, Broadway hits, classical masterworks, and new music by gifted contemporary composers.
$48–$174 (prices subject to change)
Tickets go on sale August 6. Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Soprano Renée Fleming performs Sunday, October 5, 2019 in Zellerbach Hall. (credit: Andrew Eccles)
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Alternative Breaks Application
Deadline | October 6 | Eshleman Hall, Online Application
Learn about a social justice issue while supporting change. Spend your spring break on an Alternative Break!
Women's Soccer vs. WSU
Sport - Intercollegiate - Soccer | October 6 | 12 p.m. | Edwards Track Stadium
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Women's Soccer hosts WSU in conference action at Edwards Stadium.
South Asian Literature and Arts Festival
Special Event | October 6 | 12-5 p.m. | Montalvo Arts Center
15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA
Institute for South Asia Studies, South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley, Art Forum SF
Join us for the Bay Area's first South Asian Literature & Art Festival, presented by Art Forum SF in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Institute of South Asian Studies.
Crows and Sparrows: (Wuya yu maque)
Film - Feature | October 6 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A Shanghai apartment building serves as a microcosm of China’s class struggles in Zheng Junli’s striking urban drama, filmed during the last days of China’s Nationalist rule and already looking forward to, as one character states, “a New Society.” A scheming Nationalist official and his greedy wife purchase an apartment building and proceed to lord it over the hardworking families still renting... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 3 – December 29, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plants from around the world, learn about the vast diversity in the collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission. Advanced registration not required
The Kingmaker
Film - Documentary | October 6 | 5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Dubbed “Marie Antoinette with shoes,” Imelda Marcos was the first lady of the Philippines for twenty-one years, notorious for her lavish lifestyle while her country sank into unrest and economic turmoil. She and her husband Ferdinand amassed a fortune in the billions before they were forced into exile during the 1986 revolution. Director Lauren Greenfield first featured Marcos in her book... More >
The Whistlers
Film - Feature | October 6 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
One of the pillars of the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) is known for his somber, wry studies of human nature, but none of his previous features will fully prepare you for The Whistlers, a sleek and exhilarating thriller that pays homage to the escapist spirit of Hollywood’s yesteryear. Veteran character actor Vlad Ivanov (Snowpiercer) gives a standout performance as... More >
Monday, October 7, 2019
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: No Seminar
Seminar | October 7 | 639 Evans Hall
Explore Urban Air Mobility (UAM) from every angle: Vehicles, Technology, Society: Sustainable Aviation Symposium 2019
Conference/Symposium | October 7 – 8, 2019 every day | 8 a.m.-6 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Institute of Transportation Studies
Sustainable Aviation Symposium 2019 (SAS) asks critical questions about equity in the future of air transit, through a holistic examination of technology, platforms, urbanism and other emerging topics. SAS will explore the ideas that will shape UAM and the global transition to accessible, safe, electric aviation for all. Registration required.
Registration Required https://www.sasymposium.com/tickets
SAS Poster
Berkeley Journalism Open House
Tour/Open House | October 7 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | North Gate
Join us on Monday, October 7th, 2019 for our annual all-day Open House event! Participants meet faculty, students and staff, sit in on classes and presentations, get information on financial aid, career planning, and the Investigative Reporting Program, join networking receptions, and find out all about our Master of Journalism program. This event is especially designed for those who are... More >
Dimitri Azar
Seminar | October 7 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Dimitri Azar, MD, MBA, College of Medicine, The University of Illinois
A Glimpse at the Vulnerable Population’s Access to Sexual Health Service in China
Presentation | October 7 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Bixby Conference Room, BWW 6122
Rebekah Gong, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability
Observations on the issue of sex workers’ limited access to
sexual health services, the needs and obstacles of the disabled population accessing sexual health services,
and the overall experience of working with “You and Me” in China.
Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan
Lecture | October 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Jennifer M. Dixon, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Villanova University
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Armenian Studies Program
Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands that they recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have apologized for past crimes, others continue to silence, deny, and relativize dark pasts. What explains the tremendous variation in how states deal with past crimes? When and why do states change the... More >
Trade Lunch: "Factor-biased Technologies and Spatial Reallocation"
Seminar | October 7 | 12:05-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Petr Martynov, University of California, Berkeley
Combinatorics Seminar: Graded multiplicity in harmonic polynomials
Seminar | October 7 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Alex Heaton, Max Planck Institute Leipzig
We consider a family of examples falling into the following context (first considered by Vinberg): Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over the complex numbers. A subgroup, K, of fixed points of a finite-order automorphism acts on the Lie algebra of G. Each eigenspace of the automorphism is a representation of K. Let g1 be one of the eigenspaces. We consider the harmonic polynomials on... More >
Introduction to Mindful Literacy (BEUHS063)
Workshop | October 7 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Laura Bean, MFA
Be Well at Work - Employee Assistance
Mindfulness is the practice of cultivating present moment awareness imbued with kindness and curiosity. Tuning in to the body and breath can help us to deal with strong emotions like anger and fear. By learning to sit in stillness so we can recognize our emotions, we develop the capacity to choose our response when our buttons get pushed rather than be bound by habitual reactions. This training... More >
Toward Developmentally Reasonably Self-Supervised Learning: IHD/Developmental Colloquium Fall 2019
Colloquium | October 7 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Dan Yamins, tanford University Department of Psychology and Computer Science
Abstract: Neural networks have proven effective learning machines for a variety of challenging AI tasks, as well as surprisingly good models of brain areas that underly real human intelligence. However, most successful neural networks are totally unrealistic as developmental models, because they are trained in a supervised fashion on large labelled datasets. Unsupervised approaches to learning... More >
PERL Seminar:“Converging on words, not policies – Evidence from campaign manifestos”
Seminar | October 7 | 12:40-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Caroline Le Pennec-Çaldichoury
ERL is an opportunity for PhD students to present work in progress and receive valuable feedback from faculty and peers.
Lecture - The Law of the Sea: A Multi-Faceted Discipline and a Promising Field for Practitioners
Lecture | October 7 | 12:50-2 p.m. | Simon Hall, Warren Room (295)
Berkeley Law - Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
Join us at Berkeley Law for a lecture on ocean law & policy with Judge Tullio Treves, who served on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1996 to 2011. Lunch is catered and a reception will follow the lecture. RSVP at law.berkeley.edu/scheiberlecture
Contemplating Home: Photography Workshop
Workshop | October 7 | 1-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
When we observe Nature through the lens of ecology, we see the exquisite interconnectedness of all life. In this contemplative photography workshop, we will devote our attention to connectedness and interconnectedness, using the camera as a tool for meditation and the garden as our muse.
Any and all equipment are invited, including DSLRs, mobile phones, point-and-shoot, polaroid, and pinhole... More >
$80, $75 UCBG Members
Register online or by calling 5106649841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics
Seminar | October 7 | 1-2 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Jennifer Tour Chayes, Technical Fellow, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Labs, New England, New York City, and Montreal
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
I'll discuss in detail particular applications to (1) recommendation systems, using machine learning to infer recommendations from sparse data sets on bipartite networks; and (2) cancer genomics, applying network algorithms to identify possible drug targets.
BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Lecture | October 7 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Full details about this meeting will be posted here: https://bids.berkeley.edu/events.
String-Math Seminar: Aspects of Ω-deformed M-theory
Seminar | October 7 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Jihwan Oh, UC Berkeley
Recently, Costello proposed how to systematically apply Omega deformation on string theory and M-theory. Upon the deformation, one can discuss the exact topological holography of both M2 and M5 branes.
The goal of the talk is to review Costello's formalism and to discuss a combined system of the M2 and M5 branes, which is the joint work with D. Gaiotto. The M2 brane worldvolume theory is 3d N=4... More >
Differential Geometry Seminar: Ricci Flow of Doubly-warped Product Metrics
Seminar | October 7 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Maxwell Stolarski, Arizona State
The Ricci flow of rotationally symmetric metrics has been a source of interesting dynamics for the flow that include the formation of slow blow-up degenerate neckpinch singularities and the forward continuation of the flow through neckpinch singularities. A natural next source of examples is then the Ricci flow of doubly-warped product metrics. This structure allows for a potentially larger... More >
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Some non-commutative hydrodynamic Euler equations in free probability theory
Seminar | October 7 | 3-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, UC Berkeley
The Euler equations for a flow which preserves the Gaussian measure on Euclidean space can be translated in terms of Gaussian random variables, which raises the question about an analogue in free probability. We derive these "free" Euler equations by applying the approach of Arnold for Euler equations to a Lie algebra of infinitesimal automorphisms of the von Neumann algebra of a free group. We... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Moments of cubic $L$-functions over function fields
Seminar | October 7 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Alexandra Florea, Columbia
I will focus on the mean value of $L$-functions associated to cubic characters over $F_q[t]$ when $q \equiv 1 \pmod 3$. I will explain how to obtain an asymptotic formula which relies on obtaining cancellation in averages of cubic Gauss sums over functions fields. I will also talk about the corresponding non-Kummer case when $q \equiv 2 \pmod 3$ and I will explain why this setting is somewhat... More >
Shane Henderson – Under the Hood of Bike Sharing
Seminar | October 7 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | Etcheverry Hall, 1174 (George B. Dantzig Auditorium)
Shane Henderson, Cornell University
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
oint work with Daniel Freund, Nanjing Jian, Eoin O’Mahony, David Shmoys
Cornell’s work on bike sharing with Citi Bike and its parent company Motivate relies on a combination of data analysis, stochastic modeling and optimization to help inform both the design and operation of the largest bike-sharing operations in North America. I’ll discuss our work and its impact, but focus on some of the... More >
Debate Watch Party: Canadian Federal Election English Language Leaders’ Debate
Special Event | October 7 | 4-6:30 p.m. | Melodee Cocktails
240 El Cerrito Plaza, El Cerrito, CA 94530
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
Join the UC Berkeley Canadian Studies Program and fans of Canadian politics to watch the English language Canadian federal Leaders' Debate. 4:00 PM, October 7, 2019. Melodee Cocktails, 240 El Cerrito Plaza, El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA.
This event is free, but limited to those age 21+ only.
Melodee Cocktails is located within the El Cerrito Plaza (next to Trader Joe's). There is plenty of free... More >
Seminar 271, Development: The Welfare Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers
Seminar | October 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Zenan Wang, UC Berkeley, Economics
Graphons: From Graph Limits to Modeling and Estimation of Sparse Networks at Scale: Neyman Seminar
Seminar | October 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Doe Library, BIDS Room
Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
There are many examples of sparse network at scale, e.g., the WWW, online social networks, and large bipartite networks used for recommendations. How do we model and learn these networks? In contrast to conventional learning problems, where we have many independent samples, it is often the case for these networks that we can get only one independent sample. How do we use a single snapshot today... More >
Inequality and Habitus in Thailand
Lecture | October 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Boike Rehbein, Professor of Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa, Humboldt University
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Thailand is a country of the global South but has never come under colonial rule, even as it emulates Western modernization. The result is a double-faced social structure, one part consisting of a precapitalist structure (baan muang) and the other comprising a hierarchy of social classes. People manage to move between the two components. This talk will explore Thai social structure and the... More >
Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein
Children’s personalised books: A look back and a look ahead
Colloquium | October 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Natalia Kucirkova, Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research, University of Stavanger, Norway
This talk focuses on personalized books and personalised digital reading. I will begin with an explanation of what is meant by digital personalisation in early childhood, with some examples of the resources and practices subsumed under this umbrella term. I will outline how digital personalization affects children’s reading experience and how it impacts on children’s learning.
Natalia Kucirkova
MBTG Seminar: "CryoEM and CryoET Automation: Where are we now and what do we still need?"
Seminar | October 7 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Bridget Carragher, New York Structural Biology Center
The dramatic improvements in the progress of cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) and cryo electron tomography (cryoET) over the last five years has been accompanied by the adoption of a high level of automation. However, there are several automation challenges that remain to be addressed in the areas of specimen preparation, image acquisition, and analysis. In specimen preparation we need to... More >
Analysis and PDE Seminar: The stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equations: defocusing mass and energy critical cases
Seminar | October 7 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Deng Zhang, SJTU
In this talk we will present our recent results on stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equations with linear multiplicative noise, particularly, in the defocusing mass-critical and energy-critical cases. More precisely, for general initial data, we obtain the global existence and uniqueness of solutions in both mass-critical and energy-critical case. When the quadratic variation of noise is... More >
Raghu Karnad | Reporting Against the Machine: Decoding 2019 and the Future of Indian Elections
Lecture | October 7 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Raghu Karnad, Journalist and Writer
Abhishek Kaicker, Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies, Art Forum SF, Masters of Development Practice
A talk by Indian journalist and writer, and a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction for 2019, Raghu Karnad on the real factors behind the 2019 election result, and their implications for the future of India’s democracy.
Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images
Lecture | October 7 | 5 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Mariachiara Gasparini, San Jose State University
Joyce Ertel Hulbert, Textile Conservator
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative
In her book "Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles," author Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through the analysis of the Turfan Textile Collection in the Museum of Asian Art in... More >
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DataVisor Tech Talk: Unsupervised Machine Learning at Scale
Information Session | October 7 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
As the world transforms to digital, all forms of every day activities are open to fraud attacks. In this talk, we will explain how DataVisor is able to pioneer Unsupervised Machine Learning and Big Data computational techniques at scale to save companies millions a year and keep their communities safe. With its patented algorithm and an intelligence network of more than 4B user accounts globally,... More >
I Was Brought Here to Stay: Nona Faustine
Lecture | October 7 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Nona Faustine, Artist
Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice
Nona Faustine, Artist
Situated inside a photographic tradition while questioning the culture that bred that tradition, Nona Faustine’s practice walks the fine line between past and present, beginning where intersecting identities meet history. Exploring her family album in relationship to collective belonging, and self-portraiture in... More >
Holloway Reading Series: Sawako Nakayasu
Reading - Literary | October 7 | 6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall
Sawako Nakayasu, Assistant Professor of Literary Arts, Brown University
The poet Sawako Nakayasu will give a reading of her work at 6:30 pm on Monday, 7 October, in the Maude Fife Room of Wheeler Hall (Wheeler 315) on the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
Sawako Nakayasu is the author of The Ants, Texture Notes, and Hurry Home Honey. She is also a translator of Japanese poetry and has received translation fellowships from the National Endowment for... More >
Augmented Reality UI/UX Design Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion | October 7 | 6:30-9 p.m. | 506 UC Berkeley Extension (SF Campus at 160 Spear St.)
Rupa Chaturvedi, Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Shopping, and Sr. UX Designer, Augmented Reality, Amazon; Reena Ganga, Design Lead, Augmented Reality, IBM
Mayan Shay May-Raz, Augmented Reality SDK Product Manager, Lenovo
Delighted to have Mayan Shay May-Raz at UC Berkeley Extension for an Augmented Reality UI/UX Design Fireside Chat with Rupa Chaturvedi, Sr. UX Designer, Alexa Shopping, and Sr. UX Designer, Augmented Reality at Amazon; and Reena Ganga, Design Lead, Augmented Reality at IBM. Join us on October 7 at 6:30 pm at our San Francisco Center.
$15-20
Nona Faustine: I Was Brought Here to Stay
Presentation | October 7 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Situated inside a photographic tradition while questioning the culture that bred that tradition, Nona Faustine’s practice walks the fine line between past and present, beginning where intersecting identities meet history. Exploring her family album in relationship to collective belonging, and self-portraiture in relationship to empowerment, Faustine examines the legacy of trauma, lineage, and... 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.
Half-Earth Day: How to Save the Natural World
Lecture | October 7 | 7-9 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Edward O. Wilson, Biologist and Naturalist; Sally Jewell, Interim Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy
Presented by The Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation Distinguished Lectureship in Biodiversity, with biologist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson and other special guests for a discussion moderated by Sally Jewell.
General admission $25, Students $15
Tickets go on sale September 4. Buy tickets online
