Academic
Thursday, December 7, 2017
FHL VIVe Center for Enhanced Reality
Colloquium | December 7 | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | B100 Blum Hall
College of Engineering, Arts + Design
The College of Engineering and Berkeley's Arts + Design Initiative will celebrate the launch of the FHL VIVE Center for Enhanced Reality, a multi-disciplinary research center for the advancement of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR). The program will feature a series of presentations on various AR/VR technology research and applications from faculty across campus including Engineering,... More >
Registration opens November 22. Register online by December 5.
Brand Training: Strategy and Visual Design
Course | December 7 | 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | 28 University Hall
Ram Kapoor, Communications & Public Affairs; Hulda Nelson, Communications & Public Affairs
Attend this workshop to understand the strategy behind the development of the Berkeley brand platform. See examples of how to apply the brand guidelines in your daily work. Get hands-on practice with the visual design elements of the brand platform. Work on a sample project (or bring a live one of your own) to create a branded piece with your own unique voice. Participants: Anyone who does... More >
Register online or or by emailing Ram Kapoor at ram.kapoor@berkeley.edu by December 6.
EH&S 403 Training Session
Course | December 7 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | 370 University Hall
Jason Smith, UC Berkeley Office of Environment, Health, & Safety
Office of Environment, Health & Safety
This session briefly covers the UC Berkeley specific radiation safety information you will need to start work. In addition, dosimeter will be issued, if required.
FALL 2017 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FINAL REVIEWS: A203 & A205A
Presentation | December 7 | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
THU, DEC 7, 11am-7pm. Students in ARCH203 & ARCH205A will present their projects to faculty and guest critics.
Politically Engaged Science: A Brownbag Lunch Series
Seminar | September 14 – December 21, 2017 every Thursday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | 103 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
This series challenges the notion that science and politics should not mix. Building on the March for Science and the People's Climate March, we'll discuss how research in the public interest can make an impact in a political environment dominated by corporate interests, from the major parties to the media.
Weekly discussions will focus on case studies of activist scientists, political... More >
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
Seminar | December 7 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Marcy Alsan, Professor, Stanford
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance, and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come... More >
Childcare Options on Campus and in the Community (BEUHS309)
Workshop | December 7 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Veronica Ufoegbune, UC Berkeley, Early Childhood Education Program; Nicole Biondi, Cultural Care Au Pair; Judy Kriege, BANANAS Inc.
Whether it’s center-based care, family day care, or in-home nannies/au pairs, learn the differences for you to make the decision that works best for your family. Join this panel of providers who will describe their childcare programs and answer questions.
IB Finishing Talk: Mats to metagenomes: investigating the ecology of toxigenic benthic cyanobacteria mats in a river network
Seminar | December 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Keith Bouma-Gregson, UCB (Powers Lab)
Dissertation talk: Toward a more reliable power system: frequency regulation from buildings and secure estimation against cyber attacks
Presentation | December 7 | 1-2 p.m. | 531 Cory Hall
Qie Hu
The Future of Airports, Part II
Presentation | December 7 | 2-4:30 p.m. | 542 Davis Hall
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Four groups of students from the highly popular CE153 Airport Design Class will present their final term projects. Project themes cover an interesting spectrum of real-world and real-time aviation problems, and range from topics such as designing smart airports with private LTE networks, safety analysis of taxiway operations and mitigation of runway incursions and airport passenger experience.
A380 at LAX
Applications of Machine Learning in Hardware Security
Seminar | December 7 | 2-3 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Prof. Yiorgos Makris, ECE Department, The University of Texas at Dallas
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Partly because of design outsourcing and migration of fabrication to low-cost areas around the globe, and partly because of increased reliance on third-party intellectual property, the integrated circuit (IC) supply chain is now considered far more vulnerable than ever before. With electronics ubiquitously deployed in sensitive domains and critical infrastructure, such as wireless communications,... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Preservers of positivity and total positivity in fixed dimension
Seminar | December 7 | 2-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Apoorva Khare, Indian Institute of Science
We discuss which functions preserve the notions of positive semidefiniteness and total positivity, when applied entrywise to matrices in a fixed dimension. This question has a long history, starting from Schur, Schoenberg, and Rudin, who classified the positivity preservers of matrices of all dimensions. The study of positivity preservers in fixed dimension is harder, and a complete... More >
Neural oscillations: what, where, when, and why?
Seminar | December 7 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition | Canceled
Bradley Voytek, University of California, San Diego
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
