All events
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 | July 2, 2014 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3106 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
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Managers and Productivity in the Public Sector"
Seminar | August 30 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Getting Your Bearings: Tour the Bioscience, Natural Resources and Public Health Library
Tour/Open House | August 30 | 3-3:30 p.m. | 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Calapalooza: Student activities and involvement fair.
Special Event | August 30 | 3-7 p.m. | Sproul Plaza
The Ins and Outs of Visual cortex
Seminar | August 30 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees -- without parameter tuning
Seminar | August 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
UCDC Info Session: Spring 2019 application deadline, Sept. 20, 2018
Information Session | August 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Mathematics Department Colloquium / Applied Math Seminar / Statistics Seminar: Stochastic Gradient Descent: Strong convergence guarantees – without parameter tuning
Colloquium | August 30 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
DCRP/GMS Lecture: The Heterogeneity of Urban Capital: Development, Construction, Services, and Consulting
Lecture | August 30 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 106 Wurster Hall
Nvidia Tech Talk
Information Session | August 30 | 5:30-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Habeas Data: A Panel Discussion on Data and Surveillance
Panel Discussion | August 30 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 202 South Hall
REDWOOD GROVE SUMMER CONCERTS: Hubby Jenkins + Rainy Eyes
Performing Arts - Music | August 30 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden, Redwood Grove
Scenes from the Vault: Never Before Screened Films from the Northwest Coast
Lecture | August 30 | 6-8 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Movie Under the Stars
Social Event | August 30 | 7-10 p.m. | Jack London Square
The Sacrifice
Film - Feature | August 30 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: With guest: Aimee Mann
Performing Arts - Music | August 30 | 7 p.m. | Hearst Greek Theatre