All events
Monday, May 1, 2017
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Dissertation Talk: Provably Secure Computing using Certified Software and Trusted Hardware
Presentation | May 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 531 Cory Hall
$K$-theory seminar: The Chern Character in twisted $K$-theory
Seminar | May 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, 740 and then 959
The Future of Western Democracies: Defending Freedom and Open Societies
Lecture | May 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Moses Hall
Armenian in New York City: A Fascinating History
Lecture | May 1 | 12-2 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall
Graduate Student Seminar
Seminar | May 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Anthropology on the Frontlines: Honoring the work of Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Conference/Symposium | May 1 | 1-7 p.m. | Alumni House
Dissertation Talk: Optomechanical Dynamics in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Lecture | May 1 | 2-3 p.m. | Cory Hall, 540AB (DOP Center)
String-Math Seminar: Geometry behind the shuffle conjecture
Seminar | May 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Contact and symplectic foliations/Skeleta of Weinstein manifolds
Seminar | May 1 | 2:30-5 p.m. | Stanford University Mathematics Department, 384H/383N
Deepak Rajan - Distributed-memory branch-and-bound tree search for stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs)
Seminar | May 1 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Physical Mechanisms of Cell Organization on Micron Length Scales
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
IB Finishing Talk: Breaking the rules: phylogeny, not life history, explains dental eruption sequence in mammals
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar: A conjecture in Diophantine geometry, via model theory
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk: Safe and Interactive Autonomy: Control, Learning, and Verification
Seminar | May 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall
Seminar 271, Development: Mechanism Design meets Development: Selective Trials for Technology Diffusion
Seminar | May 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk: Parallel Machine Learning Using Concurrency Control
Seminar | May 1 | 5-6 p.m. | 465H Soda Hall
Entrepreneurial Toastmasters Club Meeting
Meeting | June 6, 2016 – August 14, 2017 every Monday | 6:20-7:20 p.m. | 373 Soda Hall
Arts + Design Mondays: The Future of Media in the Trump Era, with Dave Pell and Guests
Lecture | May 1 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Future of Media in the Trump Era: Dave Pell, moderated by Deirdre English
Lecture | May 1 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Theater
The Great American Eclipse: Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lectures
Lecture | May 1 | 7:30-9 p.m. | California Academy of Sciences, Planetarium
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Garden Closed
Holiday | November 4, 2014 – December 5, 2017 the first Tuesday of the month every month | UC Botanical Garden
Nuclear Policy Working Group
Meeting | March 14 – May 9, 2017 every Tuesday with exceptions | NSSC Suite, Suite 230
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Brand Training Workshop 1: Strategy and visual design
Workshop | May 2 | 9-11:30 a.m. | UC Berkeley Campus
Teaching in Summer Workshop
Workshop | May 2 | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Innate-like B cells and their rules of engagement in infection
Seminar | May 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition | Note change in location
Anthropology on the Frontlines: Honoring the work of Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Conference/Symposium | May 2 | 11 a.m.-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Clayton C. Heathcock Lecture: Complex Alkaloid Total Synthesis
Seminar | May 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
RTGC and $K$-theory seminar: Character Formulas for Matrix Factorisations
Seminar | May 2 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 732 Evans Hall
Dissertation Talk - Integrated Nanoscale Antenna-LED for On-Chip Optical Communication
Seminar | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Making the Most of Social Security (BEUHS360)
Workshop | May 2 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Queer Hyenas: Exclusion and Sanctuary in Senegalese Visual Culture
Colloquium | May 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal: Workshop with Tobias Warner (UC Davis)
Workshop | May 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | TBD Dwinelle Hall
Development Lunch:"Two short presentations"
Seminar | May 2 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
AI for Enterprise Security: The Challenges From a Data Scientist’s Perspective
Seminar | May 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 205 South Hall
Dissertation Talk: Towards Personalized Predictive Medicine — On Remote Monitoring, Privacy and Publication Bias
Presentation | May 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
BIDS Spring 2017 Data Science Faire
Special Event | May 2 | 1:30-4:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
An Orderly Mess: A Lecture by Dr. Helga Nowotny, Founding Member, European Research Council
Lecture | May 2 | 2-4 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
Dissertation Talk: All-Mechanical Receiver
Seminar | May 2 | 2-3 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Chancellor's Awards for Public Service
Reception | May 2 | 3-5:30 p.m. | Krutch Theatre (Clark Kerr Campus)
Young Scholars Research Symposium: A celebration of student excellence
Conference/Symposium | May 2 | 4-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
How to complete the MCAT and succeed in applying to medical school:
Workshop | May 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 1229 Dwinelle Hall
Scalar for Multimedia Digital Projects Workshop
Workshop | May 2 | 5 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, Rm. 340 - BCNM Commons
Seabury Lecture: Karina Walters, UW: Iyyi Kowa ("Broken Foot") Transcending Historical Trauma through Collective Action - The Yappalli Choctaw Road to Health Study
Lecture | May 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Haviland Hall, Haviland Commons
Gilead Infosession: Bio-Tech Connect: Industry Infosession Series
Information Session | May 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Buddhist Sectarianism in Burma’s Last Kingdom
Colloquium | May 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
EPMS Weekly Seminar
Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Deconstructing and reconstructing microbial communities using cheese
Seminar | May 2 | 6-7 p.m. | Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall
Swahili Weekly Social Hour
Social Event | January 31 – May 9, 2017 every Tuesday | 6-7 p.m. | Jupiter Taproom
One Year of Community Engagement in Food Systems
Social Event | May 2 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Morgan Lounge
Baseball vs. San Francisco
Sport - Intercollegiate - Baseball/Softball | May 2 | 7:05 p.m. | Evans Field
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Jacobs Spring Design Showcase
Special Event | May 3 – 4, 2017 every day | Jacobs Hall
Computational Challenges in Machine Learning
Workshop | May 1 – 5, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
2017 California Transportation Planning Conference
Conference/Symposium | May 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Walnut Creek Marriott
Garden Closed
Special Event | May 3 | UC Botanical Garden
Computer Workstation Evaluator Training (BEUHS403)
Workshop | May 3 | 8 a.m.-12 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
BFI Research Showcase
Colloquium | May 3 | 8:45-10:45 a.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
American Studies Spring Conference: Twice-Told Tales
Conference/Symposium | May 3 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club
GWE Study Break Breakfast
Social Event | May 3 | 9-10 a.m. | North Gate Hall, Courtyard
History 101 Circus: Undergraduate Research Showcase
Presentation | May 3 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series with Cristina Banks, PhD and Edward Yelin, PhD: Health and Employment: Macro Context and Micro Initiatives
Seminar | May 3 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Webinar
Capstone Showcase 2017: Berkeley Master of Engineering
Presentation | May 3 | 10:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m. | Shires Hall
$K$-theory seminar: Twisted $K_G(G)$ and Loop group representations
Seminar | May 3 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Ayotzinapa: La verdadera noche de Iguala
Lecture | May 3 | 12-2 p.m. | 5125 Dwinelle Hall
Hidden Burdens: How Social and Educational Experiences Are Shaped by Race and Immigration Status
Colloquium | May 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, Duster Conference Room
Certificate Program in Software Development and Programming Online Information Session
Information Session | May 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Noon Concert: Gamelan
Performing Arts - Music | May 3 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Love in the Ruins: Jewish Life in Lower Silesia 1945-1968 in the voice of the oral history
Lecture | May 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Policy Entrepreneurship
Lecture | May 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium | Note change in date
Measuring Cultural Models and Contraceptive Use Among Young US Women: Demography Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | May 3 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Two axes of subordination: How immigration shapes racial dynamics in the U.S.
Colloquium | May 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Artist’s Talk: Sam Contis
Lecture | May 3 | 12:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Study Abroad Office Hours at the Transfer Center
Information Session | January 25 – May 3, 2017 every Wednesday with exceptions | 1-3 p.m. | 100 César E. Chávez Student Center
Dissertation Talk: Reconfigurable Micromechanical Filters
Seminar | May 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Link homotopy in dimensions 3
Seminar | May 3 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
BioE Seminar: “Biologically fabricated materials composed of engineered biofilm matrix proteins”
Seminar | May 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building | Note change in time
Spring Division meeting
Meeting | May 3 | 3-5 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
The continuous-time lace expansion and it’s applications
Seminar | May 3 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Applied Mathematics Seminar: Optimization-based Estimation and Control of Uncertain Systems
Seminar | May 3 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Subtle but not malicious? The (high) computational cost of non-smoothness in learning from big data
Seminar | May 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
Lecture | May 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library | Note change in date
New Play Reading Series: “Dumb Puppy” BY Elizabeth Spreen
Reading - Literary | May 3 | 4-6 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Room B-4
Loving and Blacking: Interracial Intimacies Among Campus Students in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Seminar | May 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 2515 Tolman Hall
Actomyosin mediated tension and uncoupled respiration in adipose tissue
Seminar | May 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Structure Property Relationship of Single-Ion-Conducting Block Copolymer Electrolytes/An Imaging-Based Human Embryonic Stem Cell Assay for Teratogenic Activity
Colloquium | May 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Link homotopy in dimensions 4
Seminar | May 3 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: "The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation"
Seminar | May 3 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Certificate Program in Personal Financial Planning Online Information Session
Information Session | May 3 | 5-6 p.m. | Online
EECS Colloquium: Evaluation of the Tensor Processing Unit: A Deep Neural Network Accelerator for the Datacenter
Colloquium | May 3 | 5-6 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium) | Note change in time
Monsoon Wedding | New Directions in Indian Cinema: Featuring Films by Acclaimed Film Director, Mira Nair
Film - Series | May 3 | 5-8 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 10 (ISAS Conf. Room)
Heller Lecture: Mind the Gap: Vergil and the Poetics of Narrative
Lecture | May 3 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Nestrick Room - 142
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | January 14, 2015 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3119 Etcheverry Hall
Microbiomes in Health and Disease: A Science Cafe Event
Lecture | May 3 | 7 p.m. | Restaurant Valparaiso
My Love Affair with the Brain: May Movie at Moffitt
Film - Documentary | May 3 | 7-9 p.m. | 405 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | United States, 1974
Film - Feature | May 3 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University Chorus and Gospel Chorus "Praise and Protest"
Performing Arts - Music | May 3 | 8 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
