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<< August 2017 >>

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Tell Your Own Story: Creative Writing 101

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Failure 101 with the Stanford Resilience Project

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Failure 101 with the Stanford Resilience Project

10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Tell Your Own Story: Creative Writing 101

10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Spin

Science Cafe - Spin and the Quantum Rules for Apartment Rentals

7-8:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 3, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Tell Your Own Story: Creative Writing 101

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Friday, August 4, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Tell Your Own Story: Creative Writing 101

10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, August 5, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Sunday, August 6, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Monday, August 7, 2017

Oral History Center Advanced Oral History Summer Institute

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Research, Writing and Technology in a Digital World

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (Marin)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Fatty Liver and Insulin Resistance: Lipid droplets, proteomics, and ubiquitin

3-4 p.m.

Eric Switzer (NASA GSFC): Measurements, prospects and challenges for line tomography after reionization

3:10-4 p.m.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (Marin)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Oral History Center Advanced Oral History Summer Institute

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Research, Writing and Technology in a Digital World

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Research, Writing and Technology in a Digital World

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (Marin)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Oral History Center Advanced Oral History Summer Institute

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (Marin)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Research, Writing and Technology in a Digital World

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Oral History Center Advanced Oral History Summer Institute

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday, August 11, 2017

Oral History Center Advanced Oral History Summer Institute

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (Marin)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

San Francisco Young Writer's Camp

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

12-1 p.m.

Saturday, August 12, 2017

no events

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Traditional Japanese Hand Tools and Joinery Construction

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Monday, August 14, 2017

Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute

8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (UCB Session 2)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories

1:30-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute

8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (UCB Session 2)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

The Stabilized Supralinear Network, or, The Importance of Being Loosely Balanced (Miller) / Spatiotemporal profiles of spiking variability in recurrent networks (Doiron)

12-1:30 p.m.

The NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program

3-4 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

5-6 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute

8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (UCB Session 2)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

10-11 a.m.

Oxytocin and Ontogeny: Interactions between Early life Experience, Development of Neural Nonapeptide Systems, and Social Behavior in the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)

10-11 a.m.

CRISPRcon

1 p.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

1:30-2:30 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

2-3 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

3-4 p.m.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Teaching Conference for All First-Time International Graduate Student Instructors (IGSIs)

8:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute

8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (UCB Session 2)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Strengthen Your Syllabus

12-1 p.m.

Discovering Relationships and their Structures Across Disparate Data Modalities

12-1:30 p.m.

Friday, August 18, 2017

Teaching Conference for All First-Time Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs)

8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Digital Humanities Berkeley Summer Institute

8:30 a.m.-7 p.m.

Re-writing Genomes: A New Era in Genome Engineering

8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

9-10 a.m.

Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

The Personal Statement From Zero to Bang! in 5 Days (UCB Session 2)

9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Mindful Mornings in the Garden- CANCELLED

10-11 a.m.Canceled

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

10-11 a.m.

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

1-2 p.m.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

R bootcamp

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Aesthetic Possibilities: Literature, Rhetoric, Philosophy

9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, August 20, 2017

R bootcamp

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday, August 21, 2017

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

2-3 p.m.

Writing and Citing Tools: What are your options?

2-2:30 p.m.

GIS and Mapping Resources on Campus

2:30-3 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

3-4 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

3:30-5 p.m.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

9:30-10:30 a.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

1-2 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

3:30-5 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Writing and Citing Tools: What are your options?

10-10:30 a.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

GIS and Mapping Resources on Campus

10:30-11 a.m.

Taking Action and Moving Forward in Your Career

12-1:30 p.m.

The neural substrates of anxious temperament in non-human primates

12:10-1:15 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

2-3 p.m.

Phase Transitions in Activated Random Walk

3:10-4 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

3:30-5 p.m.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar

1-2 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

3-4 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

3:30-5 p.m.

Nonparametric network comparison

4-5 p.m.

Introduction to LaTeX using Collaboration Tools

4-5 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

Friday, August 25, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

Qigong with Director Eric Siegel- SOLD OUT!

10-11 a.m.

EH&S 403 Training Session

10:30-11:30 a.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Labor Lunch Seminar: "Using Kinked Budget Sets to Estimate Extensive Margin Responses: Method and Evidence from the Social Security Earnings Test."

12-1 p.m.

Seminar 211, Economic History: Before Central Bank Cooperation: Containing the Panic of 1825

12-1:30 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

1:15-2:45 p.m.

Nanoscale Design of Materials for the Capture and Storage of Renewable Energy

2-3 p.m.

MENA Salon: Summer in Review

3-4 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

3:30-5 p.m.

Logic Colloquium

4-5 p.m.

Tetrahedral Transition Metal Chalcogenides as Functional Inorganic Materials

4-5 p.m.

Grounds for Science: Mummies, whiskey and capturing CO2

6:30-8 p.m.

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Monday, August 28, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Fundamentals of Sustainable Natural Dyeing with Michel Garcia

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

Dissertation Talk: System Design for Large Scale Machine Learning

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Differential Geometry Seminar

1-2 p.m.

String-Math Seminar

2-3 p.m.

Seminar 231, 251 Public Finance and Labor: "Racial Bias in Bail Decisions"

2-3:30 p.m.

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar

3-5 p.m.Canceled

Bin Yu — Three principles of data science: predictability, stability, and computability

3:30-5 p.m.

Seminar 271, Development: "The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire"

4-5:30 p.m.

Serial Dependence in Visual Working Memory: Time Course and Neural Mechanisms

4-5 p.m.

Scientists and Climate Change: All is not Lost

4-5 p.m.

Gospel Rape: On Close Reading in Crime and Punishment

4-6 p.m.

Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Turning up the heat: The demoralizing effect of competition in contests

4:10-5:30 p.m.

Fall Recruiting Kickoff for International Students

6-7 p.m.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Fundamentals of Sustainable Natural Dyeing with Michel Garcia

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Bank Capital and Risk Taking: A Loan Level Analysis

11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Electrophysiology, Unplugged

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

NCBI Bioinformatics Tools: An Introduction

12-1 p.m.
Chelsea Johnson

Splintering and spoilers in peace processes

12:30-2 p.m.

Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) Info session - Intro to UROC and mixer

1-2:30 p.m.

ECON 281, International Trade and Finance: "Trade, Structural Transformation, and Labor Market Dynamics: A Quantitative Analysis of China"

2-4 p.m.

3-Manifold Seminar

2:10-3:30 p.m.

Seminar 237, Macroeconomics: ​"Trade, Structural Transformation, and Labor Market Dynamics: A Quantitative Analysis of China"

2:10-4 p.m.

Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop

2:30-3:30 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring

3:45-4:45 p.m.

Physical Chemistry through a Microscope

4-5 p.m.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

5-6 p.m.

EPMS Weekly Seminar

5:10-6 p.m.

A Conversation with Min Seok Ahn

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Ropes Course 1 - 1st Year Students Only

8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Computer Health Matters: User Friendly Workstations (BEUHS400)

8:30-9:30 a.m.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Natural Dyeing with Michel Garcia

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories

9:30-11:30 a.m.

Keyboards and Mice: Ergonomic Alternatives (BEUHS401)

9:45-10:45 a.m.

Berkeley-Tokyo Summer School "Geometry, Representation Theory, and Mathematical Physics"

10-11:30 a.m.

City as Nexus

12-1:30 p.m.
Moriah Szpara

Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Taking stock: the impacts of genetic diversity for herpes simplex virus (HSV)"

12-1 p.m.

MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Molly Womack "Using earless frogs to study developmental bias"

12-1 p.m.

“Catching in the Act: Active, Dynamic, and Programmable Behaviours of Far From Equilibrium membrane Biointerfaces”

12-1 p.m.

NCBI Bioinformatics Tools: An Introduction

12-1 p.m.

The Psychology of Brokerage

12:10-1:15 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk)

2-3 p.m.

Berry-Esseen bounds for typical weighted sums in the randomized central limit theorem

3:10-4 p.m.

Topology Seminar (Main Talk)

4-5 p.m.

Dynamic Chemical Micro-Environments: Designing and Visualizing Solute and Particle Migration in Non-Equilibrium Solutions

4-6 p.m.

Convex Relaxation for Community Detection

4-5 p.m.

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Ropes Course 2 - 1st Year Students Only

8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Natural Dyeing with Michel Garcia

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis

12-1:30 p.m.

Assessing Personality Type and Your Career with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

12-1:30 p.m.

Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: How do Individuals Repay their Debt? The Balance Matching Heuristic

12-1:30 p.m.

Prof. Matei Zaharia: Composable High-Performance Data Processing with Weld

12:30-1:30 p.m.

IB Seminar: Thermal performance, local adaptation, and niche evolution in a short-lived annual

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Tannin Walk through the Garden with Michel Garcia- SOLD OUT

2-4 p.m.

Student Applied Math Seminar

2-3:30 p.m.

Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development

4-6 p.m.

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

4-5 p.m.

LaTeX: Introduction to Typesetting in math

4-5 p.m.

Mathematics Department Colloquium

4:10-5 p.m.

"Free Speech and Community": A Conversation with Chancellor Christ at The Berkeley Forum

6 p.m.