Academic
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
ReGen18 Conference
Conference/Symposium | May 1 – 4, 2018 every day | Impact Hub San Francisco
1885 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Center for Responsible Business
Join the Regenerative Movement at ReGen18!
When: May 1-4,2018
Where: Impact HubSan Francisco
Register to attend: Use code R30_BerkeleyHaas for a 30% discount off registration: http://bit.ly/2EUdw0B
We are only days away from the launch of ReGen18! You won’t want to miss this opportunity. Join us May 1-4 in the heart of theMission District at Impact Hub San Francisco. We will be... More >
Jacobs Spring Design Showcase
Seminar | May 2 – 3, 2018 every day | Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
On Wednesday, May 2, and Thursday, May 3, join the Jacobs Institute for the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase. At this lively open house, you can meet student designers, check out innovations in fields from health to mobility, and celebrate the semester over conversation and refreshments.
Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry RTG Workshop
Seminar | April 30 – May 4, 2018 every day | 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Evans Hall, 1015 and 740
Max Lieblich, Robert Guralnick and Pham Tiep
During RRR week (4/30-5/4), the number theory and arithmetic geometry RTG will be holding a workshop. The workshop will have lecture series in the mornings and discussion/problem solving sessions in the afternoons in small groups. Max Lieblich will be giving a lecture series on recent progress on the Tate conjectures, and Robert Guralnick and Pham Tiep will be lecturing about group theory and... More >
History 101 Circus: Undergraduate Research Showcase
Colloquium | May 2 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Department of History, Phi Alpha Theta, Chi Chapter
The 101 Circus is the great annual gathering at which undergraduate history majors present their thesis research. Students will give 10-minute presentations on their research before opening the floor for 5-minute Q&A sessions.
The History 101 seminar is designed to guide students through the capstone experience of undergraduate education as a history major: the researching and writing of a... More >
Dissertation Talk: Printed organic light emitting diodes for biomedical applications
Presentation | May 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 490 Cory Hall
Claire M. Lochner, EECS
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Flexible electronics interface well with the human body, enabling wearable device implementations that were previously limited by the rigid form factors of conventional electronics. This work explores applying printed and flexible organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) in biomedicine. A proof-of-concept solution-processed organic optoelectronic pulse oximeter is demonstrated, as well as a new OLED... More >
Dissertation Talk: Phase-space imaging in computational imaging
Seminar | May 2 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, VCL center, 510
Hsiou-Yuan Liu
Berkeley Center for Computational Imaging
Computational imaging has open many possibility in the study of imaging; examples are digital refocusing, phase retrieval and diffuser cameras. The optics in use does not necessarily form an image of the target, as done in traditional imaging, but capture essential features for a post-capture computation to reconstruct the image. The design of computational part will also affect how the optics is... More >
An Update on Cardiac ASL-MRI and Brain Tumor DCE-MRI
Seminar | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Krishna Nayak, University of Southern California
This talk will summarize two of the translational MRI efforts in my lab. One is the application of arterial spin labeling (ASL) to the human heart. ASL is a non-contrast technique for measuring tissue perfusion, and could be extremely valuable in the assessment of ischemic heart disease, especially high-risk groups such as those with kidney failure. Cardiac ASL-MRI is challenging because of the... More >
No MVZ Lunch Seminar
Seminar | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library
MVZ Lunch is a graduate level seminar series (IB264) based on current and recent vertebrate research. Professors, graduate students, staff, and visiting researchers present on current and past research projects. The seminar meets every Wednesday from 12- 1pm in the Grinnell-Miller Library. Enter through the MVZ's Main Office, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, and please let the receptionist... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Mechanisms for target specificity in transcriptional regulation controlling Arabidopsis anther development"
Seminar | May 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Hong Ma, Fudan University and Penn State
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
In the area of functional studies of genes important for plant reproductive development, we focus on molecular basis of meiotic homologous recombination and chromosome condensation and segregation, gene networks controlling anther and pollen development, and regulatory elements ensuring reproductive development in response to environmental changes, such as light, drought and heat.
Hong Ma
Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply
Colloquium | May 2 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Supreet Kaur, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Economics
Institute of Personality and Social Research
A distinguishing feature of the labor market is social interaction among co-workers---providing the ingredients for social norms to develop and constrain behavior. We use a field experiment to test whether social norms against accepting wage cuts distort workers' labor supply during periods of unemployment. We partner with 183 existing employers, who offer jobs to 502 randomly-selected laborers... More >
Helping Your Loved One to Remain at Home (BEUHS174)
Workshop | May 2 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Caryn Doherty, LCSW, Senior Alternatives
Knowing the resources in advance of a crisis and being prepared to discuss options with an elder, can be invaluable to you and your loved one. This informative workshop, offered by a geriatric care manager, will include a discussion of the challenges you may encounter as you attempt to assist your elder with their wish to remain living safely at home. Resources such as in-home care, care... More >
Must-Know Cooking Techniques (BEUHS641): Nutrition Events at Tang
Workshop | May 2 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Kim Guess, RD, Wellness Program Dietitian, Be well at Work - Wellness
Do you want to gain confidence in the kitchen but don’t have time for culinary school? Learn some of the key cooking techniques that are commonly used in classic recipes. You may even be inspired to create your own recipes! Lecture, brief cooking demonstration, and a sample will be provided.
Composition Colloquium - Martin Matalon Bloch Lecture featuring Jennifer Curtis, (International Contemporary Ensemble): Bloch Lecture 2: Music for Instruments and Live Electronics: Traces feat. a performance of Traces VIII for violin and electronics, Dan Flanagan (Eco Ensemble)
Colloquium | May 2 | 1 p.m. | CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Born in Buenos Aires in 1958, Martin Matalon received his Bachelor degree in Composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music In 1984, and in 1986 his Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music. In 1989, having initiated himself in conducting with Jacques-Louis Monod, he founded Music Mobile, a New York-based ensemble devoted to the contemporary repertoire (1989-96).
Among his awards,... More >
Distributional symmetries and non commutative independences
Seminar | May 2 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Camille Male, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
Professor Dan Virgil Voiculescu invented the theory of free probability in order to study abstract objects in operator algebra, the von Neumann algebras of free group. A unexpected and extremely powerful application of his theory is that it allows to predict the eigenvalues distribution of functions of certain independent random matrices. The properties of the limiting non commutative... More >
Transcriptional regulation and metabolism in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Seminar | May 2 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Manuel Llinás, Penn State University
Working towards a dynamic-stiffness hydrogel platform utilizing Phytochrome B and Phytochrome Interacting Factor 6 as a light-inducible crosslinker/Mechanisms and Descriptors of Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Nitrogen Bond Forming Reactions over Hydroxyapatite
Colloquium | May 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Nahyun Cho, Ph.D. student in the Schaffer Group and Sohn Group; Christopher Ho, Ph.D. student in the Bell Group
Special Seminar: 5-chromatic unit-distance graphs in the plane: initial discovery and subsequent progress
Seminar | May 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Aubrey de Grey, SENS Research Foundation
Earlier this year I made the first improvement since 1950 to the bounds of the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, which is to determine the chromatic number of the plane (CNP); the lower bound was previously 4, since there are 4-chromatic unit-distance (UD) graphs in the plane. The improvement to CNP ≥ 5 was achieved by identifying, though not actually defining precisely, a numerical function of UD... More >
Novel Mechanisms Linking Insulin Resistance to Non-Alcoholic SteatoHepatitis
Seminar | May 2 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Sonia Najjar, Ohio University
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Murat Acar, Associate Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Seminar | May 2 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Center for Computational Biology
Quantitative insights into gene network evolution and aging in the context of a canonical network
Abstract:
Regulation of gene expression in the yeast galactose utilization network has served as a paradigm for eukaryotic transcriptional control for 60 years now. Using the GAL network as an experimental model, we characterized cross-species evolution of this network and how cellular aging... More >
