<< Week of October 29 >>

## Sunday, October 29, 2017

### Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

### Introduction to Botanical Art Class with Catherine Watters

Workshop | October 28 – 29, 2017 every day | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. |  UC Botanical Garden

Botanical Garden

This two-day class will introduce you to the fascinating world of Botanical Art. Catherine Watters will teach you to observe, measure and draw plants in great detail and with botanical accuracy. Students will work with graphite, colored pencil and watercolors. All levels are welcome.

$190,$175 members

or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu

## Monday, October 30, 2017

### Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

### Food, Water, and Labor in Central Valley: Farmworkers and the Westlands

Seminar | October 30 | 12-1:15 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Lounge

This talk will focus on the history of water insecurity in the farm worker communities of western Fresno County and the exploitative practices of growers and their allies during drought conditions. Despite claims that water provides jobs for farmworkers there is little evidence to suggest that when growers get their allotment of water that improving conditions for farm workers followed. On the...   More >

Free

Seminar | October 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall

Thao Yeh; Natalie Stepien

Title: Exploring the impact of technology and mode of presentation on reading comprehension in sighted and blind individuals

Presenter: Natalie Stepien-Bernabe (Dr. Deborah Orel-Bixler’s Lab)

Abstract: Technology is growing rapidly, facilitating the electronic distribution of information. Electronic methods of acquiring information are especially prevalent in educational settings. For...   More >

### Combinatorics Seminar: Triangulations of even-dimensional cyclic apeirotopes and representations of partially ordered sets

Seminar | October 30 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Gustavo Jasso, University of Bonn

Department of Mathematics

Steffen Oppermann and Hugh Thomas discovered a beautiful connection between triangulations of even-dimensional cyclic polytopes and representations of certain partially ordered sets (satisfying some additional relations). In this talk I will review part of their work and then present an extension of their results to triangulations of even-dimensional cyclic apeirotopes. This is a report on joint...   More >

### Developing a Life History Theory of Mind: Awareness that the Mind Learns from the Past to Imagine the Future

Colloquium | October 30 | 12:10-1:20 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall

Kristin H. Lagattuta, Department of Psychology and the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis

Department of Psychology

Professor Lagattuta will provide an overview of her research on 4- to 10-year-olds' and adults’ beliefs about whether people generalize from their past social interactions when engaging in episodic future thinking; that is, their awareness that people’s minds draw from prior experiences when imagining what will happen next. Across multiple studies, results reveal significant age-related increases...   More >

### Political Economy Seminar/PERL

Seminar | October 30 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Bill Easterly, Professor, Berkeley

The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.

### Differential Geometry Seminar: Locally volume collapsed 4-manifolds with respect to a lower sectional curvature bound

Seminar | October 30 | 1-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Thunwa Theerakarn, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

Perelman stated without proof that a 3-dimensional compact Riemannian manifold which is locally collapsed, with respect to a lower curvature bound, is a graph manifold. The statement was used to complete his proof of the geometrization conjecture. Kleiner-Lott gave a proof of this theorem as a part of their presentation of Perelman's proof of the geometrization conjecture.

In this talk, I will...   More >

### EH&S 403 Training Session

Course | October 30 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 370 University Hall

Jason Smith, UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health, & Safety

This session briefly covers the UC Berkeley specific radiation safety information you will need to start work.​ In addition, dosimeter will be issued, if required.

### String-Math Seminar: Vertex operator algebras via topological vertex like construction

Seminar | October 30 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall

Miroslav Rapcak, Perimeter

Department of Mathematics

Y-algebras form a four parameter family of vertex operator algebras associated to Y-shaped junctions of interfaces in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. One can glue such Y-shaped junctions into the more complicated webs of interfaces. Corresponding vertex operator algebras can be identified with conformal extensions of tensor products of Y-algebras associated to the trivalent junctions of the web by...   More >

### Seminar 211, Economic History: A Consumption-Based View of the Standard of Living in the Dutch Republic

Seminar | October 30 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall

Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Economics

### Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality

Seminar | October 30 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Department of Economics

Joint with Public Finance Seminar

* Please note change in time due to joint event

### Seminar 231, Public Finance: "How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Incentive Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Inequality"

Seminar | October 30 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Ricardo Perez Truglia, UCLA Anderson School of Management

with Z. Cullen
Joint with Psych and Econ seminar

### Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Topological free entropy

Seminar | October 30 | 3-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

I will take a look back at the topological version of free entropy based on norm-microstates. This will include a discussion of the associated topological free entropy dimension, some connections with potential theory, random matrices and some problems.

### R Graphics with ggplot2

Workshop | October 30 | 3-5 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library

Josh Quan, Library Data Lab

Library

This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of graphics in R, including base graphics and ggplot2. Participants will learn how to construct, customize, and export a variety of plot types in order to visualize relationships in data.

Cal ID is required to enter Moffitt Library

free

### Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: On the Gross-Stark conjecture

Seminar | October 30 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Samit Dasgupta, UCSC

Department of Mathematics

$Seminar\, Format$:

The seminar consists of two 50-minute talks, a pre-talk (3:10-4:00) and an advanced talk (4:10-5:00), with a 10-minute break (4:00-4:10) between them. The advanced talk is a regular formal presentation about recent research results to general audiences in arithmetic geometry and number theory; the pre-talk (3:10-4:00) is to introduce some prerequisites or background for the...   More >

### Design Field Notes: Hisham Ibrahim

Seminar | October 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall

Hisham Ibrahim, whose background brings together software engineering, product management, and innovation, will speak at Jacobs Hall as part of the Design Field Notes series of pop-up talks.

### Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

Workshop | October 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships

If you are thinking about getting involved in undergraduate research, this workshop is a great place to start! You will get a broad overview of the research opportunities available to undergraduates on campus, and suggestions on how to find them.

We will also let you know about upcoming deadlines and eligibility requirements for some of...   More >

### ‘Outsiders at the Table’ – Diversity Lessons from UC Berkeley’s Biology Scholars Program (BSP)

Colloquium | October 30 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall

John Matsui, Biology Scholars Program (BSP) at the University of California, Berkeley

Since 1992, 3500 Berkeley undergraduates have participated in BSP – 80% first-to-college/low-income, 70% women, and 60% from ethnic groups (African American, Hispanic, and Native American) underrepresented in science. Dr. Matsui’s focus has been to recruit ‘under-valued’ STEM talent into BSP, students who enter Berkeley with lower SAT scores and high school GPAs and are less well-prepared to...   More >

### Tick-tock of a Circadian Clock

Seminar | October 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall

Andy LiWang, University of California, Merced

College of Chemistry

### Seminar 271, Development: "Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction"

Seminar | October 30 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Department of Economics

### Romantic Heresies: Lermontov's Demon in Dialogue with Cain

Colloquium | October 30 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall

Kathryn Pribble, Graduate Student, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

The fourth lecture in the Slavic Graduate Colloquium Fall 2017 series.

### Analysis and PDE Seminar: Inverse scattering and the Davey-Stewartson II equation

Seminar | October 30 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Daniel Tataru, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

The aim of this talk is to describe a complete implementation of the inverse scattering approach to the study of the defocusing Davey-Stewartson equation. This will involve dispersive quations, dbar pde's, microlocal analysis and other fun stuff. This is joint work with Adrian Nachman and Idan Regev.

### Towards an Integrated Biomanufacturing System for Deep Space Missions

Seminar | October 30 | 5-6 p.m. | Silver Space Sciences Lab, Silver Conference Room, Room 105

Professor Adam Arkin, Professor, Center for Utilization of Biological Engineering in Space

Space synthetic biology is a branch of biotechnology dedicated to engineering biological systems for space exploration, industry and science. There is strong public and private interest in designing robust and reliable organisms and the systems that support them that can assist on long-duration astronaut missions. Recently, we have launched a new center from NASA called the Center for Utilization...   More >

### SLAM: Life Sciences at Google: Leaning into the Newest Silicon Valley Bug

Seminar | October 30 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall

Dr. Jane Wang, Verily

Dr. Jane Wang earned her B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 2007 before moving to pursue her Ph.D. in Chemistry, as a Hertz Fellow, at UC Berkeley in the lab of Prof. Dean Toste. In the Toste lab her research focused on developing new catalytic and enantioselective methods for the addition of nitrogen and oxygen nucleophiles to olefins. She continued her career as a post-doctoral...   More >

### The Future of Fukushima: A New Generation Rises to the Challenge

Colloquium | October 30 | 6-8 p.m. |  David Brower Center

2150 Allston Way, CA, CA 94704

How did high school students – using innovative sensors – promote the recovery from an environmental disaster?

Fukushima Prefecture has achieved a remarkable recovery after the nuclear accident in 2011. Thanks to extensive clean-up, more than 97% of the region is at natural background levels; the area as large as the State of Connecticut. However, negative perception still persists...   More >

Free

or by calling 510-642-3415, or by emailing cjs-events@berkeley.edu

## Tuesday, October 31, 2017

### Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

### 2017 CJS-JSPS International Symposium: Drive for the Nobel Prize

Conference/Symposium | October 31 | 9:45 a.m.-5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica; Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley; Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo

Join us for this exciting two-day symposium featuring public talks by Nobel Laureates Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986),
Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), and Taka'aki Kajita (Physics, 2015), as well as several exciting panels discussing the Nobel Prize's impact on institutions, journalism, and research.

### Seminar 217, Risk Management: CANCELLED

Seminar | October 31 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall

No Speaker

### Online Tools for Mapping Demographic Data

Workshop | October 31 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 55A McCone Hall

Susan Powell, Library

Library

Whether you need to just make a quick map or extract geo-located demographic data for use in other software, online tools can be just the thing! This workshop will introduce a few different web platforms for exploring and mapping U.S. demographic data, including the UCB Library-subscribed databases SimplyAnalytics and PolicyMap. While there is some overlap between the different applications, each...   More >

### Development Lunch: "Spillovers from Multinational Entry: Evidence from Costa Rica"

Seminar | October 31 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Jose Vasquez

Department of Economics

Student seminar series for development economics student in Econ and ARE.

### This is [Socialist] Ghana Television

Colloquium | October 31 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Jennifer Blaylock, PhD Candidate, Department of Film and Media

Center for African Studies

This is a meeting of the weekly colloquium for the Center for African Studies.

### Medicaid's Role in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Colloquium | October 31 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall

Richard Frank, PhD, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Healthcare Policy

Public Health, School of

The U.S. is facing an opioids epidemic that has been about 30 years in the making. While opioids overdoses are affecting nearly all American communities, opioid use disorder remains disproportionately a condition that strikes lower income populations. As a result the Medicaid program and its recent changes offer an important tool for addressing this threat to public health. I report on a set of...   More >

### 3-Manifold Seminar: Schwarzian derivatives, projective structures, and the Weil-Petersson gradient flow for renormalized volume

Seminar | October 31 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Franco Vargas, UCB

Department of Mathematics

In this talk I will discuss the paper of Bridgeman, Brock and Bromberg of the same title. In this article, the authors bound both the geometry of a projective structure over a surface Σ and its associated locally convex pleated surface by norms of $\phi _\Sigma$ (the quadratic holomorphic differential given by the Schwarzian derivative). We will discuss these terms and how they relate between...   More >

### Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Resonances and wave decay on Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces

Seminar | October 31 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Peter Hintz, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

I will introduce the notion of resonances in potential and obstacle scattering in Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces and explain their relation to the local energy decay of solutions of the wave equation. This talk is based on joint work with Maciej Zworski.

### Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Monodromy and Log Geometry

Seminar | October 31 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Arthur Ogus, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

A proper semistable family over a disc gives rise to a smooth proper and saturated morphism $$X/S$$ of log analytic spaces over the log disc. We will explain how the underlying map of topological spaces $$X_{top}/S_{top}$$ can be recovered from the restriction $$X_0/S_0$$ of $$X/S$$ to the log point. We will also give simple formulas for the action of the monodromy and the differentials on the...   More >

### Biophysics of Protein Disorder, Single Molecules to Mesoscales

Seminar | October 31 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall

Ashok Deniz, Scripps Research Institute

College of Chemistry

### ECON 281, International Trade and Finance: "The International Elasticity Puzzle is Worse than You Think"

Seminar | October 31 | 4-6 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall

Philippe Martin, Sciences Po

Department of Economics

### How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop

Workshop | October 31 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Leah Carroll

Do you need to email a professor you've never met before to ask for their help, but you don't know where to start? Have you ever written a long email to a professor, only to receive no response, or not the one you hoped? If so, this workshop is for you! We will discuss how to present yourself professionally over email to faculty and other professionals ...   More >

### Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Stillman's Question, Solved! (Part 1)

Seminar | October 31 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Department of Mathematics

In this talk, we will give an introduction to the resolution of Stillman's conjecture by Ananyan and Hochster. Stillman's question asks whether or not there exists a bound on the projective dimension of a homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring which only depends on the number of generators of the ideal and their degrees. We will start by giving all relevant background material and providing a...   More >

### EPMS Weekly Seminar

Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall

Each week the Engineering and Project Management Society brings in a speaker to talk about topics related to construction and project management. Light refreshments will be provided.

Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at...   More >

### Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Social Science Research (Hosted by UROC: Underrepresented Researchers of Color)

Workshop | October 31 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center (MCC)

Istifaa Ahmed (Humanities/Social Science), Alexa Aburto (Humanities)

The Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) and the American Cultures (AC) Center are proud to present Decolonizing Methods in Humanities Research, from our three-part workshop series, Demystifying the Research Process. Humanities research applies to anyone wishing to study human culture and creations – including the arts, literature, policy, and more. Some of the humanities research process...   More >

## Wednesday, November 1, 2017

### Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

### Computer Workstation Evaluator Training (BEUHS403)

Workshop | November 1 | 8 a.m.-12 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42

Greg Ryan, Ergonomic Campus Ergonomist, Be well at Work - Ergonimics; Mallory Lynch, MA, Campus Ergonomist, Ergonomics@Work

Be Well at Work - Ergonimics

Specifically for Departmental Computer Workstation Evaluators, learn the basics of how to evaluate and modify computer workstations according to campus ergonomic guidelines in this practical, hands-on workshop. Enroll online through the UC Learning Center

### 2017 CJS-JSPS International Symposium: Drive for the Nobel Prize

Conference/Symposium | November 1 | 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m. | International House, Ida & Robert Sproul Room

Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica; Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley; Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo

Join us for this exciting symposium featuring public talks by Nobel Laureates Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986), Taka'aki Kajita (Physics, 2015), and Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), as well as committee members, historians and journalists.

### Geometric Representation Theory Seminar: Steenrod operations and the Coulomb branch

Seminar | November 1 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 738 Evans Hall

Gus Lonergan, MIT

Department of Mathematics

We use Steenrod's construction to show that the quantum Coulomb branch of Braverman-Finkelberg-Nakajima is a Frobenius-constant quantization in the sense of Bezrukavnikov-Finkelberg.

### EECS Internship Open House

Career Fair | November 1 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Memorial Stadium, Field Club

Register at: https://goo.gl/forms/TjhmEsqIuet7Mr252

Attending will be:
Atlassian
C3 IoT
EA
IBM
IXL Learning
Meraki
Microsoft
OpenTable
Oracle
Quantcast
Splunk
Uber
Voleon Group
Xilinx
Workday
Yelp

### Service Robots in Human Environments are Here with Steve Cousins: CITRIS Fall 2017 Research Exchange Series

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall

Steve Cousins, CEO, Savioke

CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Steve Cousins is CEO of Savioke. He is passionate about building and deploying robotic technology to help people. Before founding Savioke, he was the President and CEO of Willow Garage, where he oversaw the creation of the robot operating system (ROS), the PR2 robot, and the open source TurtleBot.

### City as Nexus: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2017 Colloquium

Colloquium | August 30 – November 15, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 12-1:30 p.m. | Wurster Hall, 494, South Tower

Various Guest Lecturers, Global Urban Humanities Initiative

Global Urban Humanities

Fall 2017 (1 Unit)
Rhetoric 198-3 (Class Nbr: 21377) and CYPLAN 198-2 (Class Nbr: 12006)
Rhetoric 244A (Class Nbr: 46989) and CYPLAN 298-2 (Class Nbr: 47047)
Instructor: Kevin Block
Instructor of record: Susan Moffat
Wednesdays, 12-1:30PM
Location: Cal Design Lab, Room 494 SE Wurster Hall

The city is a social nexus. It binds people, things, forces, ideas together as a crossroads, grid,...   More >

### “Mechanobiology of epithelial cells in physically heterogeneous environments”

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Amit Pathak, Washington University in St. Louis

Bioengineering (BioE)

The ability of epithelial cells to move through complex tissue barriers fundamentally regulates important physiological and pathological phenomena, such as embryogenesis, organ development, wound repair, and tumor metastasis. In pathogenesis, including fibrosis and cancer, matrix stiffening is known to induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and enhance cell migration in clustered...   More >

### Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Reprogramming root cells for AM symbiosis"

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Maria Harrison, Cornell University

Most vascular flowering plants are able to form symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These associations, named ‘arbuscular mycorrhizas’, develop in the roots, where the fungus colonizes the cortex to access carbon supplied by the plant. The fungal contribution to the symbiosis includes the transfer of mineral nutrients, particularly phosphorus, from the soil to the...   More >

### MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Ben Ashby "Finding your niche: How competition drives patterns of diversity"

Seminar | November 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library

Ben Ashby

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist...   More >

Colloquium | November 1 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall

Shahzeen Attari, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Bloomington

Debates about climate change often involve ad hominem attacks. Each side is accused of insincerity, of merely serving special interests. In particular, those who advocate policies to promote energy conservation or otherwise reduce CO2 emissions can be challenged if their personal energy use appears to be high. Our studies indicate that an attack based on high personal carbon footprint can be...   More >

### Cook Well Berkeley Healthy Cooking Series: Plant-Powered Meals (BEUHS641)

Workshop | November 1 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club

Kim Guess, RD, Be well at Work - Wellness

Be Well at Work - Wellness

Eating mostly plants is good for your health, your wallet, your taste buds, and the planet! Learn to prepare hearty, eco-friendly meals that may help improve your cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, and risks of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Demonstration, recipes, and samples provided.

### Social Capital and the Dark Side of Social Networks for Health: Stephanie Child, UC Berkeley

Colloquium | November 1 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room

Stephanie Child, Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, Sociology Department

A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.

### Data Wrangling and Manipulation in R

Workshop | November 1 | 3-5 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library

Josh Quan, Library Data Lab

Library

This workshop will introduce tools (notably dplyr and tidyr) that makes data wrangling and manipulation much easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful stuff.

Cal ID is required to enter Moffitt Library

free

### On Gaussian-width gradient complexity and mean-field behavior of interacting particle systems and random graphs

Seminar | November 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

Ronen Eldan, Weizmann Institute of Science

Department of Statistics

The motivating question for this talk is: What does a sparse Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graph, conditioned to have twice the number of triangles than the expected number, typically look like? Motivated by this question, In 2014, Chatterjee and Dembo introduced a framework for obtaining Large Deviation Principles (LDP) for nonlinear functions of Bernoulli random variables (this followed an earlier...   More >

### Tuning a human biosensor to control antiviral and antitumor responses: leveraging structural and mechanistic studies of the RIG-I

Seminar | November 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

Anna Pyle, Yale University

### Applied Math Seminar: Interpolation of Manifold-Valued Functions via the Polar Decomposition

Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Evan Gawlik, University of California, San Diego

Department of Mathematics

Manifold-valued data and manifold-valued functions play an important role in a wide variety of applications, including mechanics, computer vision and graphics, medical imaging, and numerical relativity. This talk will describe a family of interpolation operators for manifold-valued functions, with an emphasis on functions taking values in symmetric spaces and Lie groups. A key role in our...   More >

### Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Bethe ansatz from geometry (II)

Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Andrey Smirnov, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

This talk is the summary of new geometric approch to the quantum integrable spin chains. As a warm up, I will illustrate these ideas on the example of $sl(2)$ XXZ spin chain: we will obtain conventianal $sl(2)$ Bethe ansatz for this model from geometry of cotangent bundles over grassmannians. In the second part we use same ideas to derive Bethe ansatz for moduli spaces of instantons. As a...   More >

### Ornit Shani | How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise

Panel Discussion | November 1 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Ornit Shani, Faculty Member, Asian Studies Department, University of Haifa

Peter Zinoman, Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies

Abhishek Kaicker, Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley

Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and of South & Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Christopher Chekuri, Associate Professor of History, SF State University

Talk by Dr. Ornit Shani (University of Haifa), "How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise,” with commentary by Dr. Abhishek Kaiker (History, UC Berkeley), Dr. Lawrence Cohen (Anthropology, UC Berkeley), and Dr. Christopher Chekuri (History, SF State)

### Leave out estimation of variance components

Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

Patrick Kline, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Statistics

We propose a general framework for unbiased estimation of quadratic forms of regression coefficients in linear models with unrestricted heteroscedasticity. Economic applications include variance component estimation in multi-way fixed effects and random coefficient models. The large sample distribution of our estimator is studied in an asymptotic framework where the number of regressors grows in...   More >

### EECS Colloquium: Cosmetic Computing, Fashioning Fashionables, and Epidermal Electronics: Towards a New Wearable Ecosystem

Colloquium | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)

Eric Paulos, EECS / UC Berkeley

This talk will present and critique a new body of evolving collaborative work at the intersection of art, computer science, and design research. It will present an argument for hybrid materials, methods, and artifacts as strategic tools for insight and innovation within computing culture. The narrative will explore work across three primary themes – New Making Renaissance, Design Research, and...   More >

### Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Boundary amenability of Out$$(F_n)$$

Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall

Department of Mathematics

I will discuss boundary amenability and how to prove it for basic groups for most of the hour. The main interest in boundary amenability is that it implies the Novikov conjecture in manifold theory. I will then outline the main ideas in the proof of boundary amenability of Out$$(F_n)$$. This is joint work with Vincent Guirardel and Camille Horbez.

### Insulin resistance: Insight from genetic studies

Seminar | November 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall

Joshua W. Knowles, Stanford

### Seminar 211, Economic History: Taxation under Learning-by-Doing

Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University

Department of Economics

Joint with Departmental Seminar. *Please note change in time/location seminar due to joint event.

### Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: Taxation under Learning-by-Doing

Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Alessandro Pavan, Northwestern University

Department of Economics

Joint with Theory and Macro seminars

### Seminar 237, Macroeconomics: ​"Taxation under Learning-by-Doing"

Seminar | November 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Alessandro Pavan

Department of Economics

joint with Departmental Seminar

### Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Angela DePace, Associate Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Seminar | November 1 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center

Center for Computational Biology

Precision and Plasticity in Animal Transcription

### Panel Discussion of David Hollinger's "Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America"

Panel Discussion | November 1 | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Mary Elizabeth Berry, Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita, UC Berkeley; Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University; Bruce Kuklick, Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; Daniel Sargent, Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley

Department of History

Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy.

### Career Connections: Environment and Sustainability

Career Fair | November 1 | 6-8 p.m. |  Sproul Hall

More details to come!

### Reading and Book Signing: Jed Perl and Alexander S. C. Rower

Reading - Nonfiction | November 1 | 6-7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

We celebrate the publication of Jed Perl’s major biography of Alexander Calder with this reading and conversation featuring the author and the president of the Calder Foundation.

### East Bay Science Cafe- The humanity of artificial intelligence

Presentation | November 1 | 7-8:30 p.m. |  Restaurant Valparaiso

1403 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706

R. Stuart Geiger, Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Science@Cal

Today, “artificial intelligence” seems to be everywhere — in our phones, vacuums, hospitals, and inboxes — but it can be hard to separate science fiction from science fact. Many discussions about AI imagine a fully autonomous superintelligence that designs itself with little to no human intervention, making decisions in ways that humans cannot possibly understand. Yet the work of designing,...   More >

## Thursday, November 2, 2017

### Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

### Using Children's Books to Teach History

Workshop | November 2 | 2407 Dwinelle Hall

Join children's book author Laura Atkins, co-author of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, to learn more about the children's book industry and how to access diverse, justice-oriented texts for your classrooms. UCBHSSP teacher leader Jennifer Brouhard will share lessons she developed to support use of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up.

### TE-53 VMT Metrics Application and Analysis for SB 743 Compliance

Course | November 2 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. |  Oakland

Ronald Milam, AICP, PTP, Director of Evolving the Status Quo, Fehr & Peers Consulting

OPR has selected vehicle-miles-of-travel (VMT) as the preferred metric to comply with Senate Bill 743 (SB 743). The recommended changes to the CEQA Guidelines include a Technical Advisory that provides recommendations about VMT screening, methodology, and thresholds. These recommendations require fundamental changes in current transportation impact analysis practices and have implications for...   More >

### Racemic Hydrogels from Self-Assembling Mirror Image Peptides: Predictions from Pauling and Corey: Nano Seminar Series

Seminar | November 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall | Note change in location

Joel P. Schneider, Deputy Director, NIH Center for Cancer Research

Hydrogels prepared from self-assembling peptides are promising materials for medical applications, and using both L- and D-peptide isomers in a gel’s formulation provides an intuitive way to control the proteolytic degradation of an implanted material. In the course of developing gels for delivery applications, we discovered that a racemic mixture of the mirror-image β-hairpin peptides,...   More >

### Student Probability/PDE Seminar: An overview of Homogenization Techniques for Hamilton-Jacobi PDE III

Seminar | November 3 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

### MENA Salon: "After" ISIS

Workshop | November 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall

Every Friday in the semester, the CMES hosts an informal weekly coffee hour and guided discussion of current events in the Middle East and North Africa, open to all and free of charge. Check the calendar the Monday before the Salon for the current week's topic.

### Composition Colloquium: Charles Amirkanian

Colloquium | November 3 | 3 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall

Department of Music

3-4:30, Morrison 125 (unless otherwise noted)

Free and open to the public

Anthony Cheung (b. 1982, San Francisco) is a composer and pianist. His output ranges from solo to orchestral works, occasionally with electronics. His music has been commissioned by leading groups such as the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio...   More >

### Developments in the Marketplace for Cultural Materials, with Implications for Access and Preservation

Seminar | November 3 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall

Clifford Lynch

Information, School of

In this seminar session, I will discuss some emerging and troublesome developments that are becoming clear as the marketplace for cultural materials becomes not only increasingly digital, but also fragments into huge numbers of separate distribution channels, and shifts from the (sort of permanent) licensing of digital objects to their performance through streaming. In addition, I'll summarize...   More >

### Glenn T. Seaborg Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Endowing Organometallic Catalysis with a Genetic Memory

Seminar | November 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall

Thomas Ward, University of Basel

College of Chemistry

With the aim of integrating artificial metalloenzymes in vivo, the second talk will present our efforts to combine ArMs with natural enzymes to mimic fundamental features of the metabolism including: cascade reactions, up- and cross-regulation. Having identified the critical metabolites leading to ArM’s inhibition in cellulo, our efforts towards performing catalysis in the periplasm of E. coli...   More >

### Air/Qi Connections: Notes from the History of Science and Medicine

Colloquium | November 3 | 4-6 p.m. | Faculty Club, Heyns Room

Wen-hsin Yeh, History, UC Berkeley

Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

What is the relationship between the air we breathe (in Chinese, kongqi) and the qi of Chinese medicine? This talk explores the history of this intersection in order to better understand the cultural underpinnings of the connection between health and environment in China today. Typically translated into English as “vital energy,” qi has long been at the core of traditional Chinese conceptions of...   More >

### Logic Colloquium: Alan Turing and the Other Theory of Computation.

Colloquium | November 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall

Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University

Department of Mathematics

Most logicians and theoretical computer scientists are familiar with Alan Turing’s 1936 seminal paper setting the stage for the foundational (discrete) theory of computation. Most however remain unaware of Turing’s 1948 seminal paper introducing the notion of condition, setting the stage for a natural theory of complexity for what I call the “other theory of computation” emanating from...   More >

### Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar: Toric degenerations of projective varieties

Seminar | November 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Minseon Shin, UCB

Department of Mathematics

I will discuss the preprint "Toric degenerations of projective varieties" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02698) of Kiumars Kaveh and Takuya Murata.

### Student / postdoc PDE seminar: A gradient flow approach to thresholding in higher codimensions

Seminar | November 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Tim Laux, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

### Music Studies Colloquium: Eliot Bates (Graduate Center, City University of New York): “Thinking through sazes and modular synthesizers: explorations in instrumental agency”

Colloquium | November 3 | 4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall

Fall welcome misc.

Department of Music

free and open to the public

### Calligraphy Workshop with Lauren McIntosh

Workshop | November 3 | 6-7 p.m. |  Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Join artist McIntosh for a calligraphy workshop inspired by the artworks in To the Letter: Regarding the Written Word.