UC Berkeley Events Calendar

<< Week of August 26 >>

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Feral Fabric with Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski

Workshop | August 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Docent-led tour

Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Chung Kuo China

Film - Feature | August 26 | 2-4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Stalker

Film - Feature | August 26 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Full: Payne/Sonami

Performing Arts - Music | August 26 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Big C Full Moon Hike

Social Event | August 26 | 9-10 p.m. | International House

Monday, August 27, 2018

Getting Your Bearings Library Tour

Tour/Open House | August 22 – 28, 2018 every day with exceptions | 10-11 a.m. | Doe Library, Tour starts at the north entrance

Airbnb Tabling in 3rd Floor, Soda Hall

Miscellaneous | August 27 | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. | Soda Hall, In front of HP Auditorium (306 Soda Hall)

International Student Resume Week

Workshop | August 27 – 28, 2018 every day | 12-1 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room

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

Workshop | August 27 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Getting Your Bearings Library Tour

Tour/Open House | August 21 – 28, 2018 every day with exceptions | 2-3 p.m. | Doe Library, Tour starts at the north entrance

Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Vanishing theorems for completed cohomology

Seminar | August 27 | 3-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall

Differential Geometry Seminar: Classification of gravitational instantons

Seminar | August 27 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity, and Welfare"

Seminar | August 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall

Seminar 271, Development: "Heterogeneous Preschool Impact and Close Substitutes: Evidence from a Preschool Construction Program in Cambodia"

Seminar | August 27 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

“Cellular Barriers to Active Human Telomerase Assembly and Action at Telomeres”

Seminar | August 27 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall

Analysis/PDE Seminar: Balanced geometric Weyl quantization with applications to QFT on curved spacetimes

Seminar | August 27 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Global Urban Humanities Open House

Tour/Open House | August 27 | 5-7 p.m. | Wurster Hall, Wurster Gallery (1st floor)

Arista Info-Session

Information Session | August 27 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Norse Myths and How to Tell Them

Seminar | August 28 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM

Getting Your Bearings Library Tour

Tour/Open House | August 22 – 28, 2018 every day with exceptions | 10-11 a.m. | Doe Library, Tour starts at the north entrance

Seminar 217, Risk Management: Is motor insurance ratemaking going to change with telematics and semi-autonomous vehicles?

Seminar | August 28 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

International Student Resume Week

Workshop | August 27 – 28, 2018 every day | 12-1 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room

Mindfulness Meditation Group

Meeting | February 20, 2018 – January 5, 2021 every Tuesday | 12:15-1 p.m. | 3110 Tang Center, University Health Services

U.S.-English Pronunciation Tips for International Students and Scholars

Workshop | August 28 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room

Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Are We Over-Testing? Using Machine Learning to Understand Doctors’ Decisions

Seminar | August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Seminar 237, Going Negative at the Zero Lower Bound: The Effects of Negative Rates on Bank Profitability.

Seminar | August 28 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall

Getting Your Bearings Library Tour

Tour/Open House | August 21 – 28, 2018 every day with exceptions | 2-3 p.m. | Doe Library, Tour starts at the north entrance

3-Manifold Seminar: A perfect Morse function on the SU(2) representation variety of a surface

Seminar | August 28 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Butterfly Walk

Tour/Open House | April 24 – October 23, 2018 the fourth Tuesday of the month every month | 3-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden

How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop

Workshop | August 28 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Semiclassical diffraction by conormal potential singularities

Seminar | August 28 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Schauder bases in Banach lattices

Seminar | August 28 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall

Probing Complex Interfaces

Seminar | August 28 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall

Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "The Effects of Mandatory Disclosure of Supermarket Prices"

Seminar | August 28 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Art for Your Apartment (and dorm)

Presentation | August 28 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Room

Career Connections: Consulting

Social Event | August 28 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Graduate Student Lounge

Miscellaneous | April 25 – December 12, 2018 every Wednesday | Anthony Hall

Computer Health Matters: User Friendly Workstations (BEUHS400)

Workshop | August 29 | 8:30-9:30 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42

EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories

Course | August 29 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 177 Stanley Hall

Wellness Wednesdays: Elemental Yoga with Eugenia Park

Sport - Recreational | August 29 | 9:30-10:30 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Keyboards and Mice: Ergonomic Alternatives (BEUHS401)

Workshop | August 29 | 9:45-10:45 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42

ITIN Drop-Off Event

Workshop | August 29 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room

A Deep Learning, Model-Predictive Approach To Neighborhood Congestion Prediction And Control

Lecture | August 29 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall

Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Powering LPS transport across the bacterial cell envelope with ABCs"

Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall

Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Subcellular Distribution of the Human Proteome

Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall

Noon Concert: Jolie Huang, piano

Performing Arts - Music | August 29 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall

ARF Coordination Meeting

Lecture | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)

MVZ Social

Seminar | August 29 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library

Getting Your Bearings: Tour the Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library

Tour/Open House | August 29 | 12-12:30 p.m. | 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building

Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev

Lecture | August 29 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall

Enzian: making systems software research relevant in the face of custom hardware

Lecture | August 29 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430, Wozniak Lounge

Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement Workshop

Workshop | August 29 | 2-4 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms

Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Introduction to Teichmuller space

Seminar | August 29 | 2-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall

Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) Open House

Reception | August 29 | 2-4 p.m. | 102 Sproul Hall

Coffee Break

Social Event | August 29 | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House

Spectrum of random non-selfadjoint operators

Seminar | August 29 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

ERG Colloquium: Pierce Gordon: Investigating Innovation Practice: Cross-Disciplinary Studies in International Development

Colloquium | August 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall

Likelihood Ratio Test for Stochastic Block Models with Bounded Degrees

Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Convexity and Plurisubharmonicity of energy functional on Teichmuller space

Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall

Architectural Design, 1D Walls, 3D Plumbing, and Painting Blind en Route to Scalable Multifunctional Nanoarchitectures for Energy Storage

Colloquium | August 29 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall

ChREBP isoforms in pancreatic beta cells

Seminar | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall

EECS Colloquium: Fiat Lux: Creating Photoreal Digital Actors (and Environments) for Movies, Games, and Virtual Reality

Colloquium | August 29 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)

Art Lovers Meetup

Social Event | August 29 | 5-6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Note change in date

IXL Learning Info-Session

Information Session | August 29 | 6-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)

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

ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: He Jingtang

Lecture | August 29 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall

Holloway Series in Poetry: Annual Faculty Reading

Reading - Literary | August 29 | 6:30-10 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife

L'eclisse

Film - Feature | August 29 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

New April, New Armenia

Lecture | August 29 | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Mindfulness for Well-Being

Workshop | August 30 | 9:30-10 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden

Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "Formal Challenges in Designing Incentive Compatible Cryptocurrencies"

Seminar | August 30 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business

Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "Sequential Bargaining in the Field: Evidence from Millions of Online Bargaining Interactions"

Seminar | August 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business

SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation: Ensure the Healthy Development of All Youth by Unleashing the Power of Prevention

Seminar | August 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing Online Information Session

Information Session | August 30 | 12-1 p.m. | Online

Series Introduction by Alex Saragoza and Guests

Lecture | August 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

IB Seminar: Land and Sea: Evolutionary Innovation and the Dominance of Land

Seminar | August 30 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building

Docent-led tour

Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden