All events
Monday, March 12, 2018
Lessons from the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School
Workshop | March 12 | 2407 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project
Join UCBHSSP for a day of content learning and planning! Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, a scholar of the Black Panther Party, will share her research, which is part of a documentary she is developing on the Party's Oakland Community School. She will also introduce teachers to the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, which highlights the experience of women in the Black Panther Party.
Beyond New Neurons: The Secretory Role of Adult Hippocampal Stem and Progenitor Cells
Seminar | March 12 | 9-10:30 a.m. | 445 Li Ka Shing Center
Dr. Liz Kirby, Assistant Professor at OSU
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
In the adult mammalian hippocampus, resident neural stem and progenitor cells give rise to new, highly plastic neurons. A great deal of research has focused on the role of these new neurons in supporting hippocampal memory function and injury response. However, our recent work shows that undifferentiated neural stem and progenitor cells also have functional relevance by secreting soluble... More >
The Political Economy and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Trump Era
Conference/Symposium | March 12 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room 295
UC Berkeley School of Law, The Berkeley APEC Study Center, The Institute of East Asian Studies, Miller Center for Global Challenges and the Law, The Clausen Center for International Business and Policy
With the Brexit referendum, election of Donald Trump, and the continued stasis at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the liberal, rules-based trading order is facing considerable pressure for business and policymakers. These pressures come from structural economic forces, systemic changes in geopolitics, domestic political conflicts in the US and elsewhere, and a rethinking of the ideological... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: A crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux
Seminar | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Maria Monks Gillespie, UC Davis
We establish a crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux, whose characters are the Schur $Q$-functions. In particular, we will define two sets of coplactic raising and lowering operators $E$, $F$, $E'$, and $F'$ on shifted tableaux that each independently give a type A Kashiwara crystal. Taken together, these operators detect highest weight skew shifted tableaux, giving a new shifted... More >
Graduate Students Talk
Seminar | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Nevin El Nimri; Patrick Carney
Certificate Program in Human Resource Management Online Information Session
Information Session | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
Discover how this certificate, approved by the Human Resource Certification Institute, can help you make the most of growing opportunities in human resource management.
Comparative Neurobiology of Social Bonds - from Rodents to Primates to Humans
Colloquium | March 12 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Karen Bales, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Social bonds are critical to human health and well-being. However, most of what we know regarding the neurobiology of strong, selective social bonds ("pair-bonds") comes from a socially monogamous rodent, the prairie vole. In my laboratory, we also study a socially monogamous primate, the titi monkey, as a model for the neurobiology of pair bond formation and maintenance. We have characterized... More >
PMB Student/Postdoc Seminar: Leveraging Social Media for Science Communication and Professional Development
Seminar | March 12 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 338 Koshland Hall
Sara ElShafie, Grad student, IB; Aaron Pomerantz, Grad student, IB
Plant and Microbial Biology Student Group
What is the most effective way to use social media to share your scientific work with the public? How can you use social media to network and find professional opportunities? This workshop will explore how you can use social media to advance your career and heighten the impact of your work.
The Plant and Microbial Biology Student Group (PMBG) hosts a special Student Postdoc Seminar on social... More >
The fabric of the neocortex: a less-artificial intelligence
Seminar | March 12 | 1-2 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
**Andreas Tolias**, Baylor College of Medicine
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Standard invariants for discrete subfactors
Seminar | March 12 | 2-3:50 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dave Penneys, Ohio State University
The standard invariant of a finite index $II_1$ subfactor is a λ-lattice and forms a planar algebra. In turn, the planar algebra formalism has been helpful in constructing and classifying subfactors, as well as studying analytic properties. In joint work with Corey Jones, we give a well-behaved notion of the standard invariant of an extremal irreducible discrete subfactor $N\subset M$, where $N$... More >
Seminar 231, Public Finance: Special Seminar: How Did Tax Reform Happen?
Seminar | March 12 | 2-4 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
David Kamin / Ed Kleinbard / Alan Auerbach
Differential Geometry Seminar: New examples of complete Calabi-Yau metrics on \(ℂ^n\) for \(n \geq 3\)
Seminar | March 12 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ronan Conlon, Florida International University
I will present new examples of non-flat complete Calabi-Yau metrics on \(ℂ^n\) for \(n \geq 3\) having Euclidean volume growth and a tangent cone at infinity with a singular cross section. This is joint work with Frédéric Rochon (UQAM).
STROBE Seminar Series: Strategies for Effective Mentoring
Seminar | March 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 433 Latimer Hall
The purpose of this workshop is to assist graduate students and other STROBE participants in working effectively within the context of mentoring relationships with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Participants will learn about the importance of mentoring both to mentors and mentees, how to initiate mentoring relationships and keep them on track, and how to address
problems that... More >
BLISS Seminar: Robust Storage of Information in DNA Molecules
Seminar | March 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Reinhard Heckel, Rice University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage of digital information. In this talk, we discuss algorithmic and design aspects of DNA data storage systems. A key distinctive aspect of DNA data storage systems is that due to technological constraints, (1) data is written onto many short DNA molecules that are stored in an unordered way and... More >
Core Cognitive Mechanisms in Learning and Development
Colloquium | March 12 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Celeste Kidd, Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
The talk will discuss approaches aimed at understanding the computational mechanisms that drive learning and development in young children. Although infants are born knowing little about the world, they possess remarkable learning mechanisms that eventually create sophisticated systems of knowledge. We discuss recent empirical findings about learners’ cognitive mechanisms—including attention,... More >
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner | Claiming the State: Active Citizenship and Social Welfare in Rural India
Lecture | March 12 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 119 Moses Hall
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia
Institute of International Studies, Institute for South Asia Studies
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner will discuss her book, Active Citizenship: Claim-Making and the Pursuit of Social Welfare in Rural India. This book explores the everyday practices through which poor citizens of the world’s largest democracy make claims on the state for social welfare. Drawing on an original survey of 2210 households as well as 500 in-depth interviews in 105 villages of Rajasthan, she... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: $2^k$-Selmer groups, $2^k$-class groups, and Goldfeld's conjecture
Seminar | March 12 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Alexander Smith, Harvard University
Take $E/\mathbb Q$ to be an elliptic curve with full rational 2-torsion (satisfying some extra technical assumptions). In this talk, we will show that $100\%$ of the quadratic twists of $E$ have rank less than two, thus proving that the BSD conjecture implies Goldfeld's conjecture in these families. To do this, we will extend Kane's distributional results on the 2-Selmer groups in these families... More >
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Honeycomb Structures, Edge States, and the Strong Binding Regime
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University and Stanford University
We review recent progress on the propagation of waves for the 2D Schrödinger and Maxwell equations for media with the symmetry of a hexagonal tiling of the plane.
2018 Citrin Lecture: In Defense of Knowledge
Lecture | March 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
Donald R. Kinder, University of Michigan
Citrin Center at the Institute of Government Studies
Donald R. Kinder is the Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor in the Department of Political Science and research professor in the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including most recently Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public, written with Nathan P. Kalmoe.
The impact of biology on genome editing
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Dana Carroll, The University of Utah
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Long-Term Contracting With Time-Inconsistent Agents"
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Political Economy Seminar
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, Evans Hall 648
Ben Olken, MIT
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
IB Seminar: Evolution in full color: natural selection, sexual selection, and unexpected diversity in frogs
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Rayna Bell, National Museum of Natural History
Millard Sheets and Home Savings: Mid-Century Modern Architecture for Corporate and Urban Identity
Lecture | March 12 | 4-6 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Adam Arenson, Associate Professor of History, Manhattan College
Adam Arenson will discuss his latest book, Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California (University of Texas Press).
Basic Needs Security Mental Health Workshop
Workshop | March 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Stiles Hall Conference Room (basement)
Tova Feldmanstern, Counseling & Psychological Services
UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee
The student mental health workshop will be hosted by Tova Feldmanstern, a Staff Social Worker from Counseling & Psychological Services, who will be giving a brief presentation about mental health information and basic needs resources. Then a student panel will be sharing their personal experiences, with time at the end for questions. This will be followed by a community building space for... More >
Are Atheists Tolerable? American Nonbelievers and Irreligious Freedom
Lecture | March 12 | 5-7 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion
Leigh Eric Schmidt is the Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He joined Washington’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in 2011.
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The Italian ‘Commercial Revolution’: An Archaeological Reading?: A talk by Chris Wickham, March 12th 2018
Lecture | March 12 | 5 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Chris Wickham, Oxford University
“The Italian ‘Commercial Revolution’: An Archaeological Reading?”
Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at Oxford University and Fellow of All Souls College
12 March 2018
5:00 pm in Pauley Ballroom East, MLK Center.
A talk by Marc Redfield: Shibboleth: From Judges to Celan and Derrida
Lecture | March 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | 300 Wheeler Hall
Marc Redfield, Professor, Brown University
Department of English, 18th Century and Romanticism Colloquium
Swahili Weekly Social Hour
Social Event | January 22 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Jupiter
2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Jupiter (check for location updates). This is an informal gathering to connect with other Swahili speakers on campus and in Berkeley. Each person will support their own beverage purchases (water, soda, coffee, tea, beer, etc.), but we will provide the good company! And of course, Swahili speaking only! All skill and... More >
David Kurs at the Berkeley Forum
Lecture | March 12 | 6-7:30 p.m. | 220 Cheit Hall
David Kurs, Deaf West Theatre
From its founding in 1991 to today, Deaf West Theatre has aimed to improve and enrich the cultural lives of deaf and hard of hearing individuals who live in the Los Angeles area. One of the premier sign language theater in the United States, DWT works to set the standard for high-quality, inclusive theatrical experiences for deaf and hearing audiences. Kurs will discuss how DWT productions... More >
Free
UROC DeCal – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research (Hosted by UROC: Undergraduate Researchers of Color)
Course | January 29 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 6-8 p.m. | 174 Barrows Hall
Istifaa Ahmed, UROOC
Office of Undergraduate Research
Ethnic Studies 98/198
Class Time: Mondays, 6pm-8pm, 1/22/18 - 4/30/18
Course Control Number (CCN): 24251
Units: 1-3 units
Student Instructor: Istifaa Ahmed
Welcome to our student-led organization and DeCal, Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research! We seek to build a community of researchers of color... More >
The Honorable J. Clifford Wallace Lecture Series: the Ups and Downs of Religious Freedom
Panel Discussion | March 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 295, Warren Room
Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law Director, Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley
Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law (Emeritus) at University of California, Berkeley
Frederick Gedicks, Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University
Stephen Sugarman, Roger J. Traynor Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Monday, March 12, 2018
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Warren Room 295, Berkeley Law
THE HONORABLE J. CLIFFORD WALLACE LECTURE SERIES: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Organization of African Students at Berkeley
Meeting | March 12 | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | 2070 Valley Life Sciences Building
Organization of African Students
Let's talk about Democracy in Africa!
Judith Butler and Zeynep Gambetti in conversation on Public Happiness
Lecture | March 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley; Zeynep Gambetti, Political Theory, Boğazici University
Join UC Berkeley Professor Judith Butler as she talks with Turkish political philosopher Zeynep Gambetti on the idea of public happiness in the wake of public resistance, using the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Istanbul as a springboard.
Judith Butler is a Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been influential... More >
Planet Vision: Why we first need to build a shared, positive vision of the future to address our environmental challenges
Lecture | March 12 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.)
Dr. Jonathan Foley, California Academy of Sciences
A world-renowned scientist, Dr. Foley's work focuses on the sustainability of our planet and the ecosystems and natural resources we depend on. Throughout his career, he has made major contributions to our understanding of worldwide changes in ecosystems, land use and climate, and global food security.
Annette Yoshiko Reed: Forgetting: the Jewish Past between Rupture and Renewal
Lecture | March 12 | 7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Annette Yoshiko Reed, Professor, New York University
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair in Jewish Studies, GTU Center for Jewish Studies, Lehrhaus Judaica, Jewish Studies Program at UC Davis, Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University
2018 Taubman Lecture Series
Lecture 1: Monday, March 12, 7 pm: What Was Lost with the Dead Sea Scrolls
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 16, 2017 – June 3, 2018 every day | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’
cartoons, jokes, and satire throughout the years selected
from their humor magazines and other publications.
Environmental Design Archives Exhibition: Hollywood and Vine
Exhibit - Multimedia | January 22 – May 15, 2018 every day | 210 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
See the homes of the STARS!! Or more precisely, designs for the homes and gardens of film stars, directors, screen writers, and designers curated by head archivist at the Environmental Design Archives, Waverly Lowell.
Fiat Yuks: Cal Student Humor, Then and Now
Exhibit - Artifacts | October 13, 2017 – May 30, 2019 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Bancroft Library, Rowell Cases, near Heyns Reading Room, 2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe
Let there be laughter! This exhibition features Cal students’ cartoons, jokes, and satire from throughout the years, selected from their humor magazines and other publications.
ARCH Exhibition: Carme Pinós, 2018 Berkeley-Rupp Professor
Exhibit - Multimedia | February 22 – April 20, 2018 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday with exceptions | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | 108 Wurster Hall
Environmental Design, College of
ON VIEW: FEB 22-APR 20, MON-FRI 10am-5pm. Recent designs of the internationally recognized 2018 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professor will be featured, ranging from cultural centers to educational institutions to urban landscapes. Open to the public!
