Academic
Monday, October 1, 2018
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "TBA"
Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
(Computer) Vision without Sight: Finding, Reading, and Magnifying Text
Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Combinatorics Seminar: Coherence of cellular strings of zonotopes
Seminar | October 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
PF Lunch Seminar:
Seminar | October 1 | 12-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Mindfulness at Moffitt: Moffitt Wellness Program
Workshop | October 1 – December 10, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 501 (Wellness Room)
Seminar 211, Economic History: Do Black Politicians Matter?
Seminar | October 1 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
String-Math Seminar: Motives and conformal rigidity
Seminar | October 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | October 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Lefschetz pencils and their noncommutative counterparts/Dynamics of Hamiltonian pseudo-rotations
Seminar | October 1 | 2:30-5 p.m. | Stanford University Mathematics Department, 384H/383N
Differential Geometry Seminar: Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds
Seminar | October 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Finiteness of Frobenius traces of a de Rham local system
Seminar | October 1 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 784 Evans Hall
Design Field Notes: Mike Marzalek
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Experimentation and Approval Mechanisms"
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Seminar 271, Development: "Supply Chain Enforcement of Labor Law: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh's Apparel Sector"
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
The "self-stirred" genome: Bulk and surface dynamics of the chromatin globule
Seminar | October 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Construction of unstable quasi-periodic solutions for a system of coupled NLS equations
Seminar | October 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Let's Talk About Sex!: A Graduate Student Sexual Education Series
Workshop | October 1 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 183 Dwinelle Hall
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Abiotic synthetic polymers: functional alternatives to antibodies? Applications for protein stabilization, inhibition of signal transduction and as broad-spectrum antivenom.
Seminar | October 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Predicting Portfolio Return Volatility at Median Horizons
Seminar | October 2 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
In their own words: First generation students talk about navigating Berkeley
Presentation | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Lineages of the Global City: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2018 Colloquium
Colloquium | October 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Inflation Expectations And Firm Decisions: New Causal Evidence"
Presentation | October 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Beliefs about Gender
Seminar | October 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: A perfect Morse function on the SU(2) representation variety of a surface
Seminar | October 2 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Seminar 237, The Inattentive Consumer: Sentiment and Expectations
Seminar | October 2 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
EECS Undergraduate Research Panel
Panel Discussion | October 2 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 430 Soda Hall
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: An introduction to monotonic independence
Seminar | October 2 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Interfacial Energy and Charge Transfer for Photon Up- and Down-conversion
Seminar | October 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Intermediation and Vertical Integration in the Market for Surgeons"
Seminar | October 2 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Julian and His Supporters
Seminar | October 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 7205 Dwinelle Hall
Latinxs and the Environment: A Conversation on Health and the Environment
Seminar | October 2 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 30 Stephens Hall
Texas Instruments Info-Session and Hands-On Workshop
Workshop | October 2 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
International Student Career Success Series: Learn the art of “networking” step by step [Part 1]
Workshop | October 2 | 6-7 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Gold Room
SOLD OUT - Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants: Microbiome Magic
Panel Discussion | October 2 | 6:30-8 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Food In The 15th: A Candidates’ Forum
Panel Discussion | October 3 | Richmond Memorial Auditorium, Bermuda Room
How Realistic is Photorealistic?: ICBS / Vision talks
Presentation | October 3 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
a16z Demo Day
Career Fair | October 3 | 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | Soda Hall, Freezeway
Control of mammalian cell differentiation by feedback and noise
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Telling It Like It Wasn’t: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction
Panel Discussion | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "(Re)programming of cell identity and function in the context of chromatin"
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Scott Edwards: Evolutionary genomics of flightlessness in birds
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | October 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Real Estate Research Seminar: Alex Bartik: "Moving Costs and Worker Adjustment to Changes in Labor Demand: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data"
Seminar | October 3 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C325 Haas School of Business
Being Real
Colloquium | October 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Reformist Revolutions in Malawi: The Role of Reformed Islamic and Christian Congregations in Rural Malawi
Colloquium | October 3 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Periodic dynamics on tori and elliptic curves
Seminar | October 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Concentration from Geometry in High Dimension
Seminar | October 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Number Theory Seminar: Construction of $W\Omega _R^\ast $ and comparison with de Rham complex
Seminar | October 3 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Distinguishing fillings using dynamics of Fukaya categories
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Statistical challenges in casualty estimation
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Design Rules of Efficient Ion Conducting Polymers: From Block Copolymers to Single-Ion Polymers
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Knot invariants from A-branes
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Bioactive Metabolite Discovery in Mammalian Physiology
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
ERG Colloquium: Patrick Gonzalez: Anthropogenic Climate Change Severely Exposes United States National Parks
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Seminar 281: International Trade and Finance - “The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach”: Joint with Stanford
Seminar | October 3 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Stanford University - Landau Economics Building, Room # 351 | Note change in time and location
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation with Silivio Micalo
Colloquium | October 3 | 4-5:15 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Quaid Morris, Professor, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto
Seminar | October 3 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Henry Mahncke: From PhD to Industry
Colloquium | October 3 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Vasari's Words: Douglas Biow and Henrike Lange in conversation
Presentation | October 3 | 5:30-7 p.m. | 220 Stephens Hall
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Open Seminar: Quantifying without Computers with Laura McGrath
Seminar | October 4 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220 Geballe Room
Applied Math Seminar: Computational methods for the dynamics of the nonlinear Schroedinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations
Seminar | October 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 732 Evans Hall
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: "TBA"
Seminar | October 4 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
Technology and Innovation in Agriculture (SV Forum)
Conference/Symposium | October 4 | 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | UCSC Silicon Valley Campus
Silicon Valley Forum: Technology and Innovation in Agriculture
Panel Discussion | October 4 | 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. | UCSC Silicon Valley Campus
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "The Oriental City? Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000"
Seminar | October 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
SPH Brown Bag Research Presentation: Does Suing Schools Make Kids Healthier? The Impact of Litigation on Physical Education and Student Fitness in California
Seminar | October 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
IB Seminar: Anhydrobiosis – Strategies and Applications
Seminar | October 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Beyond the Historical Narrative: Extending the Curatorial to the Digital Space
Seminar | October 4 | 1-3 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: NO SEMINAR
Seminar | October 4 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
i4y Speaker Series: Ushma Upadhyay. Developing a Measure of Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment: The SHREYA Scale
Presentation | October 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 5101 Berkeley Way West
Into the Natural Microbial World: the Beginnings of Metagenomics
Seminar | October 4 | 4-5 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center | Note change in date, time, and location
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Colloquium | October 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Endnote: Basics to Advanced
Workshop | October 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building
The Influence of the Republican Period on the Painting of Ming China
Colloquium | October 4 | 4-6 p.m. | Heyns Faculty Club
Strange Vernaculars: A Colloquium: How 18th-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon became English
Colloquium | October 4 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
How Do I Pick? Assessing Your Strengths and Interests to Choose a Major: L&S Workshop Series Ursa Major
Workshop | October 4 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
UROC (Underrepresented Researchers of Color) Study Jam: Come Study with UROC and get your research questions answered!
Workshop | October 4 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Human Rights and Racial Justice in the US: A conversation with Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow”
Presentation | October 4 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Booth Auditorium - 175 Boalt Hall | Note change in location
Friday, October 5, 2018
Qigong with Director Eric Siegel
Workshop | October 5 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Water sector challenges ahead: A view from the front line: Environmental Engineering Seminar
Seminar | October 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 534 Davis Hall
México 1968
Seminar | October 5 | 12-2 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Labor Lunch: "Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Sizable Conditional Child Subsidy"
Seminar | October 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Credit Lines as Insurance: Evidence from Bangladesh
Seminar | October 5 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 248 Giannini Hall
Building a broad knowledge graph for products
Seminar | October 5 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430 (Woz)
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: “Origin of strong Rashba spin orbit coupling and spin-Hall effect in Si”
Seminar | October 5 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, 521 Hogan Room
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Metastability for Diffusions II
Seminar | October 5 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Composition Colloquium: Sarah Grace Graves and James Stone
Colloquium | October 5 | 3 p.m. | Hargrove Music Library | Note change in date
Colloquium: Menachem Wiesenberg and Taiseer Elias
Colloquium | October 5 | 3 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall | Canceled
MENA Salon, Troubled times for Iran
Workshop | October 5 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Analyzing Our Past
Seminar | October 5 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Ti-Catalyzed Nitrene Transfer Reactions: Harnessing the TiII/TiIV Redox Couple for New Transformations
Seminar | October 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
China's Crisis of Success
Colloquium | October 5 | 4-6 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), IEAS Conference Room (510A)
Colloquium:Andrew Hicks Cornell University: Listening Otherwise in and to Classical Persian Poetry
Colloquium | October 5 | 4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall
Saturday, October 6, 2018
How to Read an Object: focus on Timbuktu
Workshop | October 6 | 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | To be provided to participants
Monday, October 8, 2018
Blockchain Unlocked Executive Academy
Course | October 8 – 10, 2018 every day | 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Memorial Stadium, Executive Education Classroom
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | October 8 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Seeing in the cold – neurobiology of the ground squirrel retina
Seminar | October 8 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Combinatorics Seminar: The Taylor coefficients of the Jacobi theta constant $\theta _3$
Seminar | October 8 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Mindfulness at Moffitt: Moffitt Wellness Program
Workshop | October 1 – December 10, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 501 (Wellness Room)
The origins of morality: Developing a society of equals
Colloquium | October 8 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
SEMM Seminar: Computational analyses and design methods for an interdisciplinary approach to lightweight structures
Seminar | October 8 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
Political Economy Seminar: "Searching for Policy Reforms"
Seminar | October 8 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Searching For Policy Reforms"
Seminar | October 8 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Seminar 231, Public Finance: "Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers"
Seminar | October 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Blum Center Author Series Presents: “Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy 2.0”
Seminar | October 8 | 2-3:30 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
String-Math Seminar: \(gl_n\) homologies, annular evaluation, and symmetric webs
Seminar | October 8 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Differential Geometry Seminar: Ricci flow under local almost non-negative curvature conditions
Seminar | October 8 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: The Artin-Tate pairing on the Brauer group of a surface
Seminar | October 8 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 784 Evans Hall
MBTG Seminar: "How to hit HIV where it hurts"
Seminar | October 8 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop
Workshop | October 8 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Using mobile technologies in the teaching and learning of mathematics
Colloquium | October 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 1215 Berkeley Way West
Seminar 271, Development: "Social Signaling in Childhood Immunization: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone"
Seminar | October 8 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
SLAM: Teaching/Research at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution
Seminar | October 8 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Let's Talk About Sex!: A Graduate Student Sexual Education Series
Workshop | October 8 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 183 Dwinelle Hall
