All events
Friday, November 1, 2019
Application for Spring BUILD (Berkeley United in Literacy Development) OPENS!
Miscellaneous | November 1 | Eshleman Hall, Online Application
Get paid via Work Study or earn units to mentor youth with BUILD (k-5th reading). Be a mentor! Apply Now!
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
Fundamentals of Banking Law
Course | October 30 – November 1, 2019 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Charles Schwab
211 Main St., San Francisco, CA 94105
Berkeley Law Executive Education
Fundamentals of Banking Law addresses the key policies, concepts and regulations surrounding the financial markets, Dodd-Frank, and the rise of FinTech. Designed as a workshop and lecture-based program, rather than a seminar or conference, Fundamentals of Banking Law is taught by experienced practitioners, from leading institutions including Berkeley Law, Boston University, Charles Schwab, the... More >
RAPDP - Intermediate - Closeouts
Workshop | November 1 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Synopsis: An intermediate workshop the breaks down the process for closing a sponsored award, including the roles and responsibilities of the RA and the CGA analyst, how to complete an accrual journal as part of a Closeout, and how a Closeout is submitted in BFS. Learning Objectives: • Identify the steps and timeline to closeout an award • Identify the steps to complete the financial... More >
Berkeley Construction Innovation Day
Conference/Symposium | November 1 | 9:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | B110 Blum Hall
David Trejo, Professor, OSU "Concrete Innovations"; Jim Lindeman, Loqust "Time-space scheduling"; Alan Pumklin, Catepillar "Autonomous Vehicles in Construction"; Iris Tommelein and John Gambatese, UC Berkeley and OSU "Mistake-proofing and Prevention through Design"; Sabrina Odah,, Suffolk Construction " Leveraging Technology for Innovation in Commercial Construction"; Phil Lorenzo, StructionSite "Reality Capture and Applied AI in Construction"; Bill Ibbs, Professor, UC Berkeley "Loss of Productivity Standards"
Panel Discussion, "Implementing Innovation in a Company or Agency"
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
The Berkeley Construction Innovation Day is to bring together Cal alums and contractors, designers, owners, and other construction-related parties, to identify and reflect on innovations shaping our industry. See details of the agenda and registration at https://lnkd.in/gUiiTc6
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.
Quantum Many-Body Seminar: Classical and quantum walks: analogies and differences and a bouquet of surprises
Seminar | November 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Alberto Grunbaum, University of California, Berkeley
This is the second part of the talk. I will give an ab-initio description of "Quantum walks" comparing them to classical walks. Both similarities and differences will be stressed.
BIDS Forum: Information and Uncertainty in Data Science
Meeting | November 1 | 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.
Higher Education Researchers Workgroup
Meeting | November 1 | 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.
RSVP by emailing Anne Maclachlan at maclach@berkeley.edu
Professional Program in Regulatory Affairs Online Information Session
Information Session | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Richard Louie, Ph.D., FACB, UC Berkeley Extension
Learn about the regulatory affairs profession, examples of career paths and how our program can help you build the knowledge base to reach your professional goals.
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | November 1 | 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.
Fellowship Conference + Housewarming Party
Conference/Symposium | November 1 | 12:30-4:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room
Join us for Ted-style talks from our 2019 Human Rights Center Fellows on human rights in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and California. Keynote at 4pm from Dr. Liz Barnert on El Salvador. Come for all or part of the day.
RSVP:Tinyurl.com/HRCFELLOWSHIP2019
With special thanks to Dr. Thomas J. White for making the fellowships possible and to the Full Circle Fund for
supporting two... More >
Fall 2019 LEP Global Book Club: Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
Miscellaneous | October 25 – December 6, 2019 every Friday | 1-2 p.m. | 110 César E. Chávez Student Center
Join us for the Fall 2019 LEP Global Book Club! This semester, as we join the campus in commemorating 400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice, we will be reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo.”
Written in 1931 and published just last year, Barracoon chronicles Hurston’s conversations with Cudjo Kossula Lewis, one of the last survivors of the Atlantic Slave... More >
FinTech Legal Workshop
Workshop | November 1 | 1-6 p.m. | Charles Schwab
211 Main St, San Francisco, CA 94105
FinTech Legal is a half-day workshop designed to provide FinTech entrepreneurs, investors, attorneys, and other professionals with a general introduction to the unique and sometimes counter-intuitive ways that finance innovation is regulated in the United States. In addition to an overview of the basic structure of U.S. bank regulation and the key government regulators, the program will examine... More >
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond
Seminar | November 1 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, The Hogan Room, 521
Jelena Notaros, Ph.D. Student and Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This talk will present recent advances in integrated optical phased array architectures, results, and applications.
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
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 >
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy
Workshop | November 1 | 2-4 p.m. | 12 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility) | Note change in date and time
Venicia Slotten, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Archaeological Research Facility
A Scanning Electron Microscope is a form of microscopy that uses focused beams of electrons to reveal the surface topography of a specimen.
Registration Info: Workshops cost $50 for non-ARF affiliated researchers. It is free for ARF researchers.
Hitachi TM 1000 SEM
Imaging the Brain at High Spatiotemporal Resolution: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | November 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Na Ji, UC Berkeley, Physics
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Physics has long employed optical methods to probe and manipulate matter on scales from the infinitesimal to the immense. To understand the brain, we need to monitor physiological processes of single synapses as well as neural activity of a large number of networked neurons.
Optical microscopy has emerged as an ideal tool in this quest, as it is capable of imaging neurons distributed over... More >
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Constructing the Airy Sheet Using Brownian Last Passage Percolation II
Seminar | November 1 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Milind Hegde, UC Berkeley
We will present the recent construction of the Airy sheet by Dauvergne, Ortmann, and Virag. In the first talk we will prove the novel extension of the RSK correspondence at the center of their approach, which relates last passage values in a Brownian environment to last passage values in the environment of the Airy line ensemble. Reference: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00309.pdf
Composition Colloquium: Cygnus Ensemble
Colloquium | November 1 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
https://www.cygnusensemble.com/
MENA Salon: Religious Freedom in the Middle East and Beyond
Workshop | November 1 | 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 23 September, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Ahmed Shaheed released a report on the “Elimination of All Forms of Religious Intolerance.” The report notes the rise of anti-Semitism worldwide, pointing to the fatal attacks on synagogues in... More >
ABCs of Information: Content, Context, Relevance, and other Challenges
Seminar | November 1 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Michael Buckland
How could we evolve a more satisfactory tool-kit of concepts and terms as a stronger basis for information studies?
Logic Colloquium: The Connes Embedding Problem and Model Theory
Colloquium | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
Isaac Goldbring, UC Irvine
The Connes Embedding Problem is the following problem in von Neumann algebras: does every tracial von Neumann algebra embed into an ultrapower of a particular von Neumann algebra, the so-called hyperfinite $II_1$ factor $R$. After the work of many mathematicians, this problem has been shown to have equivalent reformulations in C*-algebras, operator systems, quantum information theory, free... More >
Ethnic Notions
Film - Feature | November 1 | 4 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Inspired by and named for a 1982 exhibition of racist memorabilia at the Berkeley Art Center, the Emmy Award–winning Ethnic Notions “became one of Riggs’s most important works because of its direct approach to an unpopular but important subject: cultural racism and its psychological impact on the development of race and race relations in America,” curator Rhea Combs writes. “Riggs’s thorough and... More >
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Colloquium | November 1 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Ling Hon Lam, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
David Marno, Associate Professor of English, UC Berkeley
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In his book The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China, Ling Hon Lam gives an original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the... More >
Learning for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficiency and Safety of Autonomous Transportation Systems
Seminar | November 1 | 4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Fei Mao, University of Connecticut
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of Connecticut's Fei Miao will present Learning for Robust Control and Optimization: Efficiency and Safety of Autonomous Transportation Systems at 4 p.m. Nov. 1 at the ITS Transportation Seminar in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Fei Mao
Pakistan's Education Conundrum | Zia Akther Abbas
Lecture | November 1 | 4-6 p.m. | Eshleman Hall, ASUC Senate Chambers, Floor 5
Zia Akhter Abbas, Executive Vice President, The Citizens Foundation
Shashi Buluswar, CEO, Institute for Transformative Technologies
The Citizens Foundation at Berkeley, Cal Pakistani Students Association, Institute for South Asia Studies
The Citizens Foundation's Executive Vice President will be speaking about the current education conundrum in Pakistan and TCF's Education Movement to enable access to quality education for the less privileged children and empowering them to achieve their dreams.
Heavy Metal Chelation: Applications in Industry and Medicine
Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Justin Wilson, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Cornell University
Heavy metal ions are typically considered to be detrimental to human health and are therefore considered to be a nuisance in both industrial and medicinal settings. The proper control of these ions via chelation, however, can engender them with beneficial applications in both regards. In this talk, I will discuss our group’s efforts to design chelators for heavy metal ions spanning the s-, d-,... More >
Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg Theorem in Characteristic p
Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Joseph Stahl, UC Berkeley
The celebrated theorem of Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg says that for a smooth algebra $R$ over a ring $k$, the Hochschild homology algebra $HH_*(R/k)$ is isomorphic to the algebra of differential forms $\Omega _{R/k}^*$. Moreover, if $k$ is a $Q$-algebra, then there is a quasi-isomorphism at the level of complexes $HH(R/k)\simeq \bigoplus _i\Omega ^i_{R/k}[i]$, where the right hand side is viewed... More >
The Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Tale: 2019 Emilio Segrè Lecture
Lecture | November 1 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor, Chancellor, University of Oxford, England, and University of Dundee, Scotland
In this presentation Jocelyn Bell Burnell will describe how pulsars were inadvertently discovered, describe some instances where they were 'nearly' discovered, and outline the properties of these amazing objects.
Volleyball vs. Oregon
Sport - Intercollegiate - Volleyball | November 1 | 7 p.m. | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Volleyball hosts Oregon in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
Taste of Cherry: (Ta’am-e gilas)
Film - Feature | November 1 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A man with a hangdog face circles the scrubby outskirts of Tehran in a dust-colored Range Rover, looking for someone to do a job. We’re left in extended suspense as to the nature of his proposition; when at last we learn what the driver, Mr. Badii, wants—to die—his motivation is never explained, his anguish never explored. Instead the film gives us afternoon light and lengthening shadows, the... More >
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | November 1 – 2, 2019 every day | 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, November 2, 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 >
Certificate Program in Clinical Research Conduct and Management
Information Session | November 2 | 10-11 a.m. | 3A UC Berkeley Extension (Belmont Center)
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.
Cal Alumni Student Association Networking Brunch: Build your Cal network
Social Event | November 2 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Alumni House
Do you want to build stronger connections with Cal’s amazing alumni and student communities? Come to a networking brunch hosted by the Cal Alumni Student Association (CASA) on Saturday, November 2, from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. at Alumni House.
Career Fair: sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists
Career Fair | November 2 | 12-5 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.), Enter at Maximino Martinez Commons 2520 Channing
Recruiters from CNN, The New York Times, NBC, Center for Investigative Reporting, KQED and many more media companies are seeking candidates for internships, fellowships and entry-level career positions. FREE REGISTRATION at https://journalism.berkeley.edu/student-groups/nabj/
FREE
All professionals and students from around the Bay Area are welcome to attend!. Registration opens October 1. Register online or by calling Pam Gleason at 510-642-3654, or by emailing Pam Gleason at pgleason@berkeley.edu by November 2.
All are welcome!
Repair Cafe - A Free Community Repair Event
Special Event | November 2 | 1-4 p.m. | Berkeley Technology Academy
2701 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley, CA 94703
Cal Zero Waste, Transition Berkeley
Do you have broken items you don’t want to send to the landfill? Are you someone with DIY repair skills? Are you looking for volunteer opportunities?
Mark your calendars for Transition Berkeley and Cal Zero Waste’s upcoming Repair Café on Saturday, November 2nd from 1 - 4pm, held at the Berkeley Technology Academy! Repair Cafés are free events where the community comes together to fix broken... 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
76 Minutes and 16 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami: (76 daghighe va 15 sanieh ba Abbas Kiarostami)
Film - Feature | November 2 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Filmmaker Seifollah Samadian was one of Abbas Kiarostami’s closest friends and worked alongside him for over twenty-five years, collaborating on projects such as ABC Africa and Five. In this intimate portrait, which is revealing in subtle and touching ways, Samadian draws upon footage he shot of Kiarostami on location and while traveling in Iran and abroad, showing him at work as a photographer,... More >
76 Minutes and 16 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami: (76 daghighe va 15 sanieh ba Abbas Kiarostami)
Film - Feature | November 2 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Filmmaker Seifollah Samadian was one of Abbas Kiarostami’s closest friends and worked alongside him for over twenty-five years, collaborating on projects such as ABC Africa and Five. In this intimate portrait, which is revealing in subtle and touching ways, Samadian draws upon footage he shot of Kiarostami on location and while traveling in Iran and abroad, showing him at work as a photographer,... More >
Reading: Jori Finkel
Reading - Nonfiction | November 2 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Arts journalist Jori Finkel (The New York Times and The Art Newspaper) introduces her new book It Speaks to Me, in which fifty celebrated artists from New York to New Delhi talk about the eye-opening and thought-provoking art that has inspired them. Highlights include David Hockney on Edgar Degas, Shirin Neshat on Alice Neel, Marina Abramovic on Umberto Boccioni, Ai Weiwei on a Shang Dynasty... More >
Jour de fête
Film - Feature | November 2 | 3:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
This loose series of village vignettes follows the misadventures of a postman (Tati) who, inspired by a hyperbolic newsreel at a traveling fair, attempts to emulate the spectacular speed and efficiency of the American postal service—on his bicycle. The fair’s boisterous energy, in contrast to the lull of village routine, is brilliantly evoked by the controlled cacophony of the soundtrack. The... More >
The Big Road
Film - Feature | November 2 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
A group of hopeful Chinese youth awaken to their patriotic duty while building a strategic highway in Sun Yu’s stirring socialist agitprop drama, set during the Japanese invasion of the country and starring a who’s-who of legendary Chinese actors, including Jin Yan (the “Chinese Valentino”), Zheng Junli, and Li Lili. The collective body politic may be glorified here, but the body itself is as... More >
Volleyball vs. Oregon State
Sport - Intercollegiate - Volleyball | November 2 | 7 p.m. | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Volleyball hosts Oregon State in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
Robert Simonds, Violin
Performing Arts - Music | November 2 | 8-10 p.m. | McEnerney Hall (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music & Audio Technologies
American violinist Robert Simonds has a multifaceted career as an orchestral player, chamber musician, and solo recitalist. This year, Rob begins his first season as principal second violin of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and his eighth as a member of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA.
$10 General, $5 Students and seniors
UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | November 1 – 2, 2019 every day | 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
The Watermelon Woman
Film - Feature | November 2 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
“Funky screwball comedy in the key of queer” is how critic B. Ruby Rich characterized The Watermelon Woman, the first feature of video artist/comedienne Cheryl Dunye. In it, Dunye plays a lesbian video-store clerk and would-be filmmaker who becomes obsessed with uncovering the history of a star of the early “race” films, the so-called Watermelon Woman. It develops that this “mammy” was a sister,... More >
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Women's Basketball vs. Vanguard
Sport - Intercollegiate - Basketball | November 3 | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Women's Basketball hosts Vanguard at Haas Pavilion.
The Judge
Film - Documentary | November 3 | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts in 2009, challenging longstanding traditions and customs regarding women’s roles in society. Constantly battling controversy over her position, Al-Faqih offers guidance, mentorship, and support both in and outside the courts. In this intimate portrait, “we get to see Al-Faqih in her office-like... More >
Pine Needle Basketry with Judith Thomas
Workshop | November 3 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Judith Thomas, weaver and Waldorf handwork teacher will instruct students how to source materials and craft a pine needle basket. Learn how to work with pine needles to create a small coiled basket, using a needle and waxed linen to bind the bundles of needles together. A perfect activity for the fall. Pack a lunch to enjoy in the beautiful Garden setting during the break! All levels welcome.
$85 / $75 Garden Members
Fall Free Family Day
Special Event | November 3 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
11 AM–3 PM: Art Making, Gallery Tours, Storytelling with Special Guests, and Library on Wheels
11:45 AM & 1:15 PM: Puppet Show: Chanticleer the Rooster
3 PM: Family Matinee: Short Films by Sally Cruikshank
Make art inspired by BAMPFA exhibitions.
Explore the galleries with family-oriented tours.
Enjoy an interactive performance of Chanticleer the Rooster by Magical Moonshine Puppet... More >
Women's Soccer vs. ASU
Sport - Intercollegiate - Soccer | November 3 | 12 p.m. | Edwards Track Stadium
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Women's Soccer hosts ASU in conference action at Edwards Stadium.
NaNoWriMo 2019: Come Write In at Doe Library
Special Event | November 3 – December 1, 2019 every Sunday | 1-4 p.m. | Doe Library, Room 180 Doe
National Novel Writing Month – Celebrate 20 Years of Creativity at Doe Library!
Have you ever thought about writing a novel but just didn’t think you had the time? Join fellow writers during the month of November at Doe Library and let your creativity shine!
The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact Shannon Monroe at least two weeks prior to the event at smonroe@berkeley.edu
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
Free Screening: Films by Sally Cruikshank
Film - Series | November 3 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Intrigued by the idea of seeing her drawings move, Sally Cruikshank learned to animate while in college. Her love of surreal 1930s cartoons, as well as her desire to make her own amusement park, is evident in her wildly colorful and wonderfully detailed films. The psychedelic Quasi at the Quackadero, named to the National Film Registry in 2009, and other exuberant vehicles star a recurring cast... More >
The Judge
Film - Feature | November 3 | 5 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih became the first female appointed to any of the Middle East’s Shari’a courts in 2009, challenging longstanding traditions and customs regarding women’s roles in society. Constantly battling controversy over her position, Al-Faqih offers guidance, mentorship, and support both in and outside the courts. In this intimate portrait, “we get to see Al-Faqih in her office-like... More >
The Wind Will Carry Us: (Bad mara khahad bourd) (Le vent nous emportera)
Film - Feature | November 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kiarostami’s film of plainspoken poetry is blatantly allegorical in its messages yet mysterious and marvelous in its rhythms. A man identified as an engineer arrives in Siah Dareh, a Kurdish village growing out of the side of a hill. “If anyone asks, say we’re looking for treasure,” he advises his unseen crew; in fact they are here to record a mourning ritual, for a death expected any day. But in... More >
The Wind Will Carry Us: (Bad mara khahad bourd) (Le vent nous emportera)
Film - Feature | November 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kiarostami’s film of plainspoken poetry is blatantly allegorical in its messages yet mysterious and marvelous in its rhythms. A man identified as an engineer arrives in Siah Dareh, a Kurdish village growing out of the side of a hill. “If anyone asks, say we’re looking for treasure,” he advises his unseen crew; in fact they are here to record a mourning ritual, for a death expected any day. But in... More >
Monday, November 4, 2019
Graduate Student Seminar
Seminar | November 4 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Sanam Mozaffari, Roorda Lab; Vincent Nieto, Fleiszig-Evans Lab
Kabir in Song: Padmashri Prahlad Singh Tipanya and the Kabir Ensemble singing religious poetry from North India
Lecture | November 4 | 12-2 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Nora Melnikova, Lecturer – Hindi, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Linda Hess, Kabir scholar and former professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University
Institute for South Asia Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies
Please join us for an afternoon of North India devotional music by Padmashri Prahlad Singh Tipanya and his folk ensemble as they sing the poetry of the famous nirgun-bhakti poet Kabir, the great iconoclastic mystic of 15th-century North India, in the vigorous and joyful folk style of Madhya Pradesh’s Malwa region.
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Seminar: Optimization Under Uncertainty for Design, Materials, and Large-Scale Computing
Seminar | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
James R. Stewart, Computational Sciences & Math Sandia National Laboratories
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
This presentation highlights the many ways that optimization is used to support multiscale, multiphysics modeling and simulation. Examples include design and topology optimization, as well as PDE-constrained optimization and Bayesian inference for estimating material properties or input model parameters. In the context of additive manufacturing, the materials themselves become part of the design... More >
speaker
Eduardo R. Miranda: Artificial Intelligence Music with Biocomputing
Performing Arts - Music | November 4 | 12-1 p.m. | McEnerney Hall (1750 Arch St.)
Center for New Music & Audio Technologies
Professor Eduardo R. Miranda
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
The University of Plymouth, UK
Artificial Intelligence Music with Biocomputing
Trade Lunch: "The Welfare Consequences of Urban Renewal: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment"
Seminar | November 4 | 12:05-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Nick Tsivanidis, University of California, Berkeley
Combinatorics Seminar: Partition identities of Capparelli and Primc
Seminar | November 4 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jehanne Dousse, CNRS et Universite Lyon I
A partition of a positive integer n is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers whose sum is n. A Rogers-Ramanujan type identity is a theorem stating that for all n, the number of partitions of n satisfying some difference conditions equals the number of partitions of n satisfying some congruence conditions. In the 1980's, Lepowsky and Wilson established a connection between the... More >
Political Economy Seminar
Seminar | November 4 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Marco Tabellini, Professor, Harvard
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
BIDS Forum: Statistics and Machine Learning Forum
Lecture | November 4 | 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.
Seminar 211, Economic History: Original Sin and the Great Depression
Seminar | November 4 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Christopher Meissner, UC Davis
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 >
Andreas Floer Memorial Lecture: From pseudo-rotations to holomorphic curves
Lecture | November 4 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Viktor Ginzburg, UC Santa Cruz
On the conceptual level, the roots of a big part of modern symplectic topology can be easily traced back to the original work of Floer, and this talk is no exception. The main theme of the talk is the dynamics of Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations, i.e., Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms with minimal number of periodic points. This is an interesting and important class of maps and there is a strong relation,... More >
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: A Survey of Bi-free Extremes
Seminar | November 4 | 3-5 p.m. | Evans Hall, 736 Evans
Jun-Chau Wang, University of Saskatchewan
We will review the recent results from the paper "Bi-free extreme values" (arXiv:1811.10007), and discuss further some open problems in bi-free harmonic analysis.
Global Internships Info Session
Information Session | November 4 | 3-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge
If you've ever wanted to intern abroad, now is your chance! Come to a Global Internships info session to learn more about the professional opportunities available in 13 global cities.
At the info sessions, we'll be answering your questions about where you can go, how the internship placements works, and the application deadline.
Hope to see you there!
Differential Geometry Seminar: Minimal surfaces via Allen-Cahn
Seminar | November 4 | 3-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Christos Mantoulidis, MIT
We will survey the construction of minimal surfaces (critical points of the area functional) as limits of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation, $\epsilon ^2 \Delta u = u^3 - u$, with $\epsilon \to 0$. We will focus on Allen-Cahn solutions that arise from min-max constructions, and we'll discuss properties of the corresponding minimal surfaces. Part of this talk is joint work with Otis Chodosh.
Fall Division meeting of the Academic Senate
Meeting | November 4 | 3-5 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Oliver O'Reilly, Academic Senate
A regular business meeting of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate. The notice will be posted on the webpage prior to the meeting.
Non-Senate seating is limited.
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: On the Kudla-Rapoport conjecture
Seminar | November 4 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Chao Li, Columbia
The Kudla-Rapoport conjecture predicts a precise identity between the arithmetic intersection numbers of special cycles on unitary Rapoport-Zink spaces and the derivatives of local representation densities of hermitian forms. It is a key local ingredient to establish the arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula, relating the height of generating series of special cycles on Shimura varieties to the... More >
Anil Aswani — Optimization Hierarchy for Fair Statistical Decision Problems
Seminar | November 4 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 1174 Etcheverry Hall
Anil Aswani, University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Abstract: Data-driven decision-making has drawn scrutiny from policy makers due to fears of potential discrimination, and a growing literature has begun to develop fair statistical techniques. However, these techniques are often specialized to one model context and based on ad-hoc arguments, which makes it difficult to perform theoretical analysis. This paper develops an optimization hierarchy... More >
The Order I Live In: An Indoor Urban Symphony With Co-Director Francisco Cruces: Film Screening and Live Q&A
Film - Documentary | November 4 | 4-6 p.m. | 2334 Bowditch (Center for Latin American Studies)
Center for Latin American Studies
Cities have been narrated from manifold perspectives, but rarely from the inside. This ethnographic documentary on contemporary urban life highlights the voices of 20 people in Madrid, Mexico City, and Montevideo.
Promotional image for "The Order I Live In." (Image courtesy of Francisco Cruces.)
Seminar 271, Development: Judges, Lenders, and the Bottom-Line: Court-ing Firm Growth in India
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Winners and Losers?: The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
Colloquium | November 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1102, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; Department of Economics and Goldman School of Public Policy
(Joint with Sandra Black and Jeffrey Denning)
College admissions processes are fundamentally a question of tradeoffs: given capacity, admitting one student means rejecting another. Research to date has generally estimated average effects of college selectivity, and has been unable to distinguish between the gains to students gaining access and the losses to students losing access. We use the... More >
Redesigning CMOS Electronics: What, Why and How?
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Cory Hall, Wang Room (531 Cory Hall)
Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
We have devised an effective heterogeneous integration strategy based on mature and reliable CMOS technology only to integrate hybrid materials and diverse set of devices for multi-disciplinary applications.
On Lyric Erring: The Weak Position in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Lecture | November 4 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Ivan Sokolov, Graduate Student, Slavic, UC Berkeley
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The fourth lecture in the Fall 2019 Slavic Graduate Colloquium Series.
The Lord of the Rings: structural mechanism of a DNA polymerase sliding clamp loader
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Brian Kelch, University of Massachusetts Medical School
The sliding clamp Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) is a central regulator of genomic integrity and cell proliferation pathways in all eukaryotes. PCNA is a ring-shaped complex that encircles and slides along DNA, serving as an essential cofactor of DNA polymerases and scores of other proteins to coordinate DNA replication with numerous cellular processes. PCNA is installed on DNA by a... More >
The Technology Politics of Mechanizing Crops: Insights from California Agriculture, 1945-1985
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Morgan Lounge
Patrick Baur, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley; Alastair Iles, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Berkeley Food Institute, Center for Diversified Farming Systems
This is the age of agricultural robots. Media outlets from the Los Angeles Times to The New Yorker are publishing articles on new robotic advances. The contemporary fascination with robots, artificial intelligence, ‘big data’, and other Silicon-Valley-inspired technology is rooted in a long history of framing automation as natural and inevitable. For the past century, the... More >
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Systoles, Special Lagrangians, and Bridgeland stability conditions
Seminar | November 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Yu-Wei Fan, UC Berkeley
We propose a question that naturally generalizes Loewner’s torus systolic inequality from the perspective of Calabi-Yau geometry: Is the square of the minimum volume of special Lagrangians in a Calabi-Yau manifold bounded above by the total vol- ume of the Calabi-Yau? We introduce the categorical analogues of systole and volume in terms of Bridgeland stability conditions, which enables us to... More >
Analysis and PDE Seminar: A tale of two resolvent estimates
Seminar | November 4 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University
I will discuss two new results concerning the best of resolvent estimates and the worst of resolvent estimates. In the former, case, that of nontrapping obstacles or metrics, we have obtained (in joint work with Galkowski and Spence) optimal, dynamically determined, constants in the standard non-trapping estimate for the (chopped off) resolvent. In the latter case, that of obstacles or metrics... More >
Commercializing Advanced Materials: SLAM Seminar Series
Seminar | November 4 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Ajay Virkar, Co-Founder, Chief Technological Officer, C3Nano
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
In this talk, C3Nano’s progression from a university spin-out into a fully operational advanced materials company with the industry’s leading technology, a global foot-print, and a successful track record for commercialization of various products, will be discussed.
Ajay completed BS in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois and his PhD under the guidance of... More >
Worker's Rights and the Promise of Medicare for All
Panel Discussion | November 4 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Laurel Lucia, Healthcare Program Director, UC Berkeley Labor Center; Dr. Uma Tadepalli, MD, Member, Physicians for a National Health Plan; Michelle Segretario, Member, United Auto Workers 2865 & Department of Italian Studies; Jasmine Ruddy, Medicare for All Team Lead, California Nurses Association; Melvin Mackay, President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10
Perrie Briskin, Head Steward, United Auto Workers 2865 & Haas School of Business & School of Public Health
Join UAW 2865 for an exciting panel with healthcare experts, healthcare workers, and workers in other industries on what healthcare reform would mean for workers!
"For Sama" Screening
Film - Documentary | November 4 | 6:15 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Booth Auditorium
For Sama is an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film documents Waad Al-Kateab's life through the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets married, and gives birth. The screening will be
followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers—currently touring with Frontline's international release of this... More >
ATC Lecture — Guy Hoffman, "Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics"
Colloquium | November 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
Guy Hoffman, Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Center for New Media, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), Arts + Design
As we continue to develop social robots designed for connectedness, we struggle with paradoxes related to authenticity, transience, and replication. In this talk, I will attempt to link together 15 years of experience designing social robots with 100-year-old texts on transience, replication, and the fear of dying. Can there be meaningful relationships with robots who do not suffer natural decay?... More >
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
Lecture | November 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Guy Hoffman
Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media
Guy Hoffman, Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
As we continue to develop social robots designed for connectedness, we struggle with paradoxes related to authenticity, transience, and replication. In this talk, Cornell University robotics researcher Guy Hoffman links his fifteen years of experience designing social robots with... More >
Unraveling the Dark Matter Mystery: In Theory and Experiment
Lecture | November 4 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 3 LeConte Hall
Matt Pyle, Professor, Department of Physics; Sinéad Griffin, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Join us for a conversation between a Theorist and an Experimentalist, both pursuing the search for Dark Matter.
What is dark matter? For decades, firm astronomical evidence from observations of stars and galaxies has indicated that most of the matter in the universe cannot be seen directly in telescopes. Instead, this matter must be observed indirectly through its gravitational pull on the... More >
Gravitational lensing studies of the Bullet Cluster are claimed to provide the best evidence to date for the existence of dark matter.
Heart Chan Meditation
Course | September 23 – November 11, 2019 every Monday | 7-8:30 p.m. | Anthony Hall
Heart Chan, Heart Chan at Berkeley
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