Academic
Monday, April 1, 2019
An eye for detail: Attention and eye movements at the foveal scale
Seminar | April 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Dr. Martina Poletti
Spectral Representation and Approximation of Solenoidal Fields: Fluids Seminar
Seminar | April 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Siavash Ameli, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Abstract: Wide range of fluid flow applications are incompressible. Noise in flow measurements is the main source that violates the divergence free condition for such flows. Variety of approaches has been proposed to filter noise and reconstruct data. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, Dynamics Mode Decomposition, radial basis functions and smoothing kernels, spectral filtering by Fourier... More >
The Role of Early School Experiences in the Development of Executive Function
Colloquium | April 1 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Jennie Grammer, UCLA, Department of Education and Information Studies
Children’s Executive Function (EF) skills develop rapidly during early elementary school and play an important role in student success during the school transition period. Although these associations have been well documented, questions remain regarding the ways in which school shapes EF development, as well as the mechanisms underlying the associations between EF and academic performance. In... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Cluster algebras and factorization
Seminar | April 1 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ana Garcia Elsener, University of Graz
Cluster algebras were introduced and studied in a series of articles by Fomin and Zelevinsky in [FZ02,FZ03,FZ07] and by Berenstein–Fomin–Zelevinsky in [BFZ05]. They admit connections to several branches of mathematics such as representation theory, geometry, and combinatorics. These algebras are defined by generators obtained recursively form an initial data (a quiver or a matrix). During... More >
PERL Seminar: “Appointed public officials and local favoritism: Evidence from the German States”
Seminar | April 1 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Mariana Lopes, Max Planck Institute- Visiting Researcher Haas BPP
Political Economy Research Lunch:PERL is an opportunity for PhD students to present work in progress and receive valuable feedback from faculty and peers.
String-Math Seminar: Quantum Toroidal Algebras, Screenings and 3D Theories
Seminar | April 1 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Yegor Zenkevich, University of Milano-Bicocca
Based on the representation theory of quantum toroidal algebras we propose a generalization of the refined topological vertex formalism incorporating additional "Higgsed" vertices and lines apparently corresponding to refined Lagrangian branes. We find rich algebraic structure associated to brane diagrams incorporating the new vertices and lines. In particular, we build the screening charges... More >
Seminar 231, Public Finance:
Seminar | April 1 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Youssef Benzarti; Alisa Tazhitdinova
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Youssef Benzarti - "Do Payroll Taxes Turn Workers Into Machines?"
Alisa Tazhitdinova - "Increasing Hours Worked: Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform"
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Symplectic structures in derived algebraic geometry
Seminar | April 1 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Gabriele Vezzosi, University of Florence
After sketching the basics of derived algebraic geometry, I will explain how to define symplectic and lagrangian structures in this setting. A derived symplectic structure has a “shift” (or degree) that is zero for usual symplectic structures. This degree allows us a greater freedom, e.g. it leads to the fact that the derived intersection of two usual lagrangians is symplectic with a $-1$... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Dwork Crystals and Related Congruences
Seminar | April 1 | 3-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall | Note change in location
Masha Vlasenko, IMPAN Warsaw
I will show a new, simple construction of crystals associated with toric hypersurfaces and exploit it to prove p-adic congruences for expansion coefficients of rational functions. This is joint work with Frits Beukers.
The exposition will be self-contained, but I shall explain that our ideas evolve from those of Bernard Dwork. Since he constructed an explicit Frobenius operator which does point... More >
Differential Geometry Seminar: Collapsed Manifolds With Ricci Curvature and Local Rewinding Volume Bounded Below
Seminar | April 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
We will give a brief review of the study of collapsed Riemannian manifolds with sectional curvature bounds, and we will report some recent progress on collapsed manifolds with Ricci curvature and local rewinding volume bounded below.
Zeyu Zheng - Non-stationary Markov processes: Approximations, simulation, and decision-making
Seminar | April 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 1174 Etcheverry Hall
Zeyu Zheng, University of California, Berkeley
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
In many Markov modeling contexts, the system under consideration exhibits strong time-of-day effects, day-of-week effects, or seasonality effects. In fact, most real-world systems that are modeled as Markov processes exhibit such non-stationarities. Nevertheless, the great majority of the academic literature focuses on modeling and theory for Markov processes with stationary transition... More >
Population Diversity in Aging and Metabolic Stress: Using Systems Biology to Connect Molecular Networks and Phenotypic Outcomes: Dr. Evan Williams, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Center for Computational Biology, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Abstract:
Interactions between individuals' genetic backgrounds and their environments over a lifetime drive variation in the incidence and severity of metabolic disorders and age-related co-morbidities. We have followed a highly diverse set... More >
Northern California Symplectic Geometry Seminar: Subleading asymptotics of ECH capacities
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, UC Santa Cruz
In previous work, Hutchings, Ramos and I studied the embedded contact homology (ECH) spectrum for any closed three-manifold with a contact form, and proved a “volume identity” showing that the leading order asymptotics recover the contact volume. I will explain recent joint work that sharpens this asymptotic formula by estimating the subleading term. The main technical point needed in our... More >
Targeted Antisense Therapeutics for Modulation of Splicing or NMD
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It.: A Talk By Sarah Bowen and Sinikka Elliott
Panel Discussion | April 1 | 4-6 p.m. | Women's Faculty Club, The Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge
Sarah Bowen and Sinikka Elliot will discuss their new book, Pressure Cooker. Organized around the stories of nine families and based on extensive ethnographic research, Pressure Cooker takes on 7 foodie myths, showing how encouraging people to "get back into the kitchen" does not address the deeper problems in our food system.
Seminar 291, Departmental Seminar: “Countering the Winner’s Curse: Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model”
Seminar | April 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dirk Bergemann, Yale University
Co-authored with Benjamin Brooks and Stephen Morris. Joint with Economic Theory seminar.
Learning Spaces for Experiential Learning
Colloquium | April 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Way West, Room 1215, Berkeley Way West (2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Dr. David Ernesto Salinas Navarro, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico City Region), Organizational Systems and Industrial Engineering Department
Dr. Salinas Navarro expands the conceptualization of learning spaces for higher education by integrating Experiential Learning (EL) and Challenge Based Learning (CbL). He offers a framework for shifting attention to domains of interaction in which students actively develop their specific learning outcomes. In these learning spaces, students learn-by-doing in real-world types of situations.
Analysis and PDE Seminar: The pointwise convergence problem for the free Schrödinger equation
Seminar | April 1 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Ruixiang Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carleson proposed a problem on a.e. convergence for free Schrödinger solutions as time goes to zero. Recently it got a sharp answer (up to the endpoint) in all dimensions. We will talk about the new result in dimensions $n+1$ for all $n >2$ and ideas behind it (joint work with Xiumin Du).
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory (Departmental Seminar): Countering the Winner’s Curse: Optimal Auction Design in a Common Value Model
Seminar | April 1 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dirk Bergemann, Yale
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Employee Engagement: BPM201
Workshop | April 2 | 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 24 University Hall
James Dudek; Terrie Moore
This 3.5 hour in-person workshop is part of the BPM Grow Your Team series. In this interactive workshop, each participant’s experience is drawn upon for the learning. Ideally, to contribute to and enhance understanding, participants will come with current and/or previous people management experience.
The content covers an overview of employee engagement, new employee onboarding, the use of... More >
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Robust Experimentation in the Continuous Time Bandit Problem
Seminar | April 2 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Speakers: Farzad Pourbabaee, UC Berkeley
Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk
We consider the experimentation dynamics of a decision maker (DM) in a two-armed bandit setup, where the agent holds ambiguous beliefs regarding the distribution of the return process of one arm and is certain about the other one. The DM entertains Multiplier preferences a la Hansen and Sargent [2001], thus we frame the decision making environment as a two-player differential game against nature... More >
Exploring ligand binding space to discover new lipid biology
Seminar | April 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Ku-Lung Hsu, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Lipids represent a rich model system for understanding how nature maintains cellular architecture (membrane building blocks), bioenergetics (energy stores), and communication (secondary messengers) through fine adjustments in enzyme metabolism. Embedded within lipid structures is chemical information that define their metabolic fate and function. Elucidating structure-function relationships of... More >
UCB Startup Fair
Conference/Symposium | April 2 | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/ucberkeleystartupfairsp19
The UCB Startup Fair is back again!
Run by IEEE, HKN, and CSUA, students are introduced to small tech companies that typically rely on personal connections for hiring. It's a great way for students to find full-time and internship positions! Attendance is free for all UCB students, so please bring your student ID.
You must... More >
Restaurants and Reconciliation: The Representation of Indigenous Foodways in Canada
Colloquium | April 2 | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
L. Sasha Gora
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
Why are there so few Indigenous restaurants in Canada? Toronto has over 8,000 restaurants, but until October 2016 only one offered Indigenous cuisine. Since then, three more have opened, and others across the country. By narrowing in on restaurants, L. Sasha Gora’s talk will survey the relationship between food and land in Canada and emphasize the historic role of food as both a weapon of... More >
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Understanding Employment Effects of Sectoral Shocks"
Presentation | April 2 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
This workshop consists of one-hour informal presentations on topics related to macroeconomics and international finance, broadly defined. The presenters are UC Berkeley PhD students, faculty, and visitors.
** MUST RSVP**
RSVP by emailing jgmendoza@berkeley.edu by March 15.
Webnet: Google Analytics and other Google goodies
Workshop | April 2 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 303 Doe Library
Jesse Loesberg, Web Designer, Library Communications Office
Director of Staff Learning and Development
Career Lab: Cover Letters
Workshop | April 2 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Interactive career labs will start with 15-20 minutes topic overview and discussion, then participants will have the opportunity to work on their own materials in peer-to-peer pairs, with career advisor assistance. Career Lab group size is capped at 20 participants, so please sign up early to ensure a spot! You are encouraged to bring printed copies of your materials and/or your laptop.... More >
Seminar 237/281: Macro/International Seminar - "Lumpy Durable Consumption Demand and the State-Dependent Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy"
Seminar | April 2 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Alisdair McKay, Senior Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
TBA
RSVP by emailing Joseph G. Mendoza at jgmendoza@berkeley.edu
Seminar 271, Development, Joint with Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor"
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Please note change in time/location seminar due to joint event.
H-1B Workshop
Workshop | April 2 | 2-4 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
The main focus of this workshop are general H-1B eligibility requirements, eligible professional occupations, application process, and timing concerns.
Topics covered:
H-1B eligibility criteria
Types of jobs appropriate for H-1B
Minimum salary requirements
Employer's role
Application timing challenges
Options for F/J students/scholars
Brexit and Beyond - Agriculture and Ecosystem Services in the UK
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3 p.m. | 260 Mulford Hall
Kate Hind, Exeter University
Join us for a Kate Hind's seminar providing insight into agriculture in the UK, the repercussions of Brexit, and the farmers' relationship with ecosystem services. After the presentation, there will be time for questions - so come curious!
Kate Hind from Exeter University is an impact fellow who has a wide experience of working with farmers and land managers on sustainable land use and... More >
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor
Seminar | April 2 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Corrupted We Fall? Corruption in University Admissions in Eastern Europe
Panel Discussion | April 2 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Bechtel Conference Room 630
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Universities worldwide are charged with a mission of promoting meritocracy and honesty. Multiple cases of corruption in admissions and examinations undermine this important mission. In countries with weak social institutions and a high level of corruption in society, policymakers especially struggle to combat corruption in higher education. The discussion will provide insights into the dynamics... More >
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Real polynomials and the Fourier extension operator
Seminar | April 2 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Ruixiang Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Fourier extension operator is a very interesting and difficult object to study in harmonic analysis. Stein conjectured that it is a bounded linear operator between some $L^p$ spaces. Recently people have found that auxiliary real polynomials can help one study Stein's above Restriction Conjecture. We will talk about a few interesting facts about zero sets of real polynomials, and why they can... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: Hyperbolic 4-manifolds with trivial Seiberg-Witten invariants
Seminar | April 2 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
We'll describe subgroup separability for arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds of simplest type and apply it to describe embedding results due to Kolpakov-Reid-Slavich. With this we can address a conjecture of Claude LeBrun that the Seiberg-Witten invariants of hyperbolic 4-manifolds vanish, by showing the existence of examples for which it is true. Joint with Francesco Lin.
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Quadratic Gorenstein rings and the Koszul property
Seminar | April 2 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Michael Stillman, Cornell University
An artinian local ring $(R,m)$ is called Gorenstein if it has a unique minimal ideal. If $R$ is graded, then it is called Koszul if $R/m$ has a linear $R$-free resolution. Any Koszul algebra is defined by quadratic relations, but the converse is false, and no one knows a finitely computable criterion. Both types of rings occur in many situations in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, and... More >
Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women: A Conversation
Colloquium | April 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Dawn Marie Dow, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Tina Sacks, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
Amani Allen, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Community Health Sciences, UC Berkeley
Center for Research on Social Change, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, American Cultures, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Department of Sociology, Center for Race and Gender, Social Welfare, School of
At this interactive event, Dawn Dow and Tina Sacks will discuss their new books on African American women: "Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood" by Dow and "Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the American Healthcare System" by Sacks.
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Matrix Orthogonal Polynomials and Representation Theory
Seminar | April 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
William Casper, Louisiana State University
We present a solution of the matrix Bochner problem, a long-standing open problem in the theory of orthogonal polynomials, with applications to diverse areas of research including representation theory, random matrices, spectral theory, and integrable systems. Our solution is based on ideas applied by Krichever, Mumford, Wilson and others, wherein the algebraic structure of an algebra of... More >
Tajima coalescent
Seminar | April 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 141 McCone Hall
Julia Palacios, Stanford University
In this talk I will present the Tajima coalescent, a model on the ancestral relationships of molecular samples. This model is then used as a prior model on unlabeled genealogies to infer evolutionary parameters with a Bayesian nonparametric method. I will then show that conditionally on observed data and a particular mutation model, the cardinality of the hidden state space of Tajima’s... More >
Inside the Black Box of Organizational Life: The Gendered Language of Performance Assessment
Presentation | April 2 | 4-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director’s Room
Shelley Correll, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Catherine Albiston, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Trond Peterson, Professor of Sociology, and Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Department of Psychology
Do formal evaluation procedures really reduce bias? As an organizational practice, are they a smokescreen concealing bias or a great leveler that bolsters meritocracy?
While organizations formalize evaluation procedures to help achieve meritocratic outcomes, they often fail to eliminate bias in practice. Managers play a key role in applying such procedures, but researchers have been unable to... More >
RSVP by calling Christina McKay at 510-643-8140, or by emailing Christina McKay at christina.mckay@berkeley.edu
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "Bidding frictions in ascending auctions"
Seminar | April 2 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Bob Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Equivariant completions of toric varieties and their degenerations
Seminar | April 2 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall | Canceled
Netanel Friedenberg, Yale University
I will tell the story of equivariant completion of toric varieties and their degenerations from the perspectives of algebraic geometry and combinatorics. We will start on the algebraic geometry side with results of Nagata and Sumihiro on completions of varieties. We will then move on to later combinatorial proofs that normal toric varieties admit completions. Finally, we will discuss recent... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Equivariant completions for degenerations of toric varieties
Seminar | April 2 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Netanel Friedenberg, Yale University
After reviewing classical results about existence of completions of varieties, I will talk about a class of degenerations of toric varieties which have a combinatorial classification - normal toric varieties over rank one valuation rings. I will then discuss recent results about the existence of equivariant completions of such degenerations. In particular, I will show a new result about the... More >
California State Taxes Workshop
Workshop | April 2 | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
A representative from the California Tax Franchise Board will present on how to determine your California state tax residency and complete your nonresident alien tax forms. Collect your tax report forms (W-2 and/or 1042-S forms and/or 1099) and follow along as they take you through a step-by-step example for filing your state tax return.
*Complete your federal tax return via GTP before... More >
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Imaging correlates of early pathology in Parkinson’s disease
Seminar | April 3 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Johannes Klein, Nuffield Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Oxford University
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Parkinson’s disease affects around 1% of the population over 60, and the number of patients is rising with an aging population. To develop neurodegenerative therapies aiming to prevent conversion to or slow down progression of Parkinson’s, reliable biomarkers are needed to identify those at risk of PD, and to track disease progression. Detecting early pathology would allow for intervention before... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Allison Shultz: Evolution across timescales: comparative and population genomics studies of host-pathogen co-evolution in birds
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, Grinnell-Miller Library
Allison Shultz
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 Seminar: "Differentiating plant genetic from environmental drivers of plant microbiome structure and function"
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Posy Busby, Oregon State University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Posy Busby is an assistant professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University. Research in the Busby lab focuses on plant-fungal interactions, plant disease, and community ecology. Their current research seeks to characterize communities of non-pathogenic fungi that live in plants, “endophytes,” and to test how endophytes influence plant disease severity.
Memcomputing: a brain-inspired computing paradigm
Seminar | April 3 | 12 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Massimiliano Di Ventra, Dept of Physics, UC San Diego
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Which features make the brain such a powerful and energy-efficient computing machine? Can we reproduce them in the solid state, and if so, what type of computing paradigm would we obtain? I will show that a machine that uses memory (time non-locality) to both process and store information, like our brain, and is endowed with intrinsic parallelism and information overhead – namely takes advantage,... More >
Diverging destinies? Changing family structures and inequality of opportunity in the United States: A Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Diederik Boertien, Researcher, Centre for Demographic Studies, University of Barcelona
Population Science, Department of Demography
A lunch time talk and discussion session, featuring visiting and local scholars presenting their research on a wide range of topics of interest to demography.
Cyrus Farivar on "50 years of surveillance law in America"
Conference/Symposium | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
About the speaker:
Cyrus [suh-ROOS] is a Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer.
His second book, Habeas Data, about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is due out May 8, 2018 from Melville House.
In 2017, Cyrus Farivar and Joe Mullin won the Technology... More >
Noninvasive monitoring of chronic kidney disease using MR based pH and perfusion
Seminar | April 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Michael McMahon, John Hopkins University
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a cardinal feature of methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), a prototypic organic acidemia. Impaired growth, low activity, and protein restriction affect muscle mass and lower serum creatinine concentrations, which can delay the diagnosis and management of renal disease in this patient population. We have designed a general alternative strategy for monitoring renal function... More >
Your Credit Score and More – Borrowing Basics (BEUHS352)
Workshop | April 3 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Richard Ruiz, Bank of the West; Chris Lane, Bank of the West
This seminar provides a comprehensive overview of critical information related to consumer lending options. The session topics include a review of different credit types, costs associated with obtaining credit, your rights as a borrower, what creditors review when making a credit decision and ideas on how to manage your credit.
What can computers teach us about creativity?
Colloquium | April 3 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Justin Manley, Software Engineer, Google
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Since the 1950s, psychology and computer science have been stimulated and transformed by the mutual exchange of ideas about cognition. During this time, another aspect of the mind has occupied each field mostly in isolation: creativity. This talk surveys creative uses of computers in the arts and presents recent works using artifacts from studies at the Institute of Personality and Social... More >
Multidisciplinary Mapping: Human-Carnivore Conflict and Landscape Use by Carnivores and People in the Rift Valley, Kenya
Colloquium | April 3 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Christine Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Human-wildlife conflict is a global issue, which has complex causes and dynamics. The communities experiencing conflict are those most able to describe their experiences and most likely to present adequate solutions. In the Kenyan Rift Valley, rapid development and subdivision has isolated many protected areas, restricting corridors and resulting in a dramatic increase in human-carnivore... More >
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | April 3 | 1:30-3:30 p.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Office of Environment, Health & Safety
This training is required for anyone who is listed on a Biological Use Authorization (BUA) application form that is reviewed by the Committee for Laboratory and Environmental Biosafety (CLEB). A BUA is required for anyone working with recombinant DNA molecules, human clinical specimens or agents that may infect humans, plants or animals. This safety training will discuss the biosafety risk... More >
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Compactification of moduli spaces and point collision
Seminar | April 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Xuwen Zhu, UC Berkeley
Part of the Deligne–Mumford compactification of the moduli space of marked Riemann surfaces comes from the collision of marked points ("bubbling"). I will explain this kind of degeneration and then talk about a real analogue of such compactification in the study of constant curvature conical metrics, where a similar bubbling behavior appears.
Deformation Theory Seminar: The LG/CY correspondence
Seminar | April 3 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Baker Room
Benjamin Gammage, UC Berkeley
We will review Orlov’s construction of an equivalence of categories between certain Calabi-You complete intersection in weighted protective spaces and the equivariant matrix factorization of associated quasihomogeneois singularities
Grace-like polynomials and related questions
Seminar | April 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
David Ruelle, IHES
We say that the multi-affine polynomial P(z1, . . . , zm, w1, . . . , wn) is Grace-like if it does not vanish when {z1, . . . , zm is separated from {w1, . . . , wn) by a circle in the complex plane. Such polynomials have many unexpected probabilistic properties related to the work of Borcea-Brändén.
Number Theory Seminar: Absolute Hodge cycles on abelian varieties of CM-type III
Seminar | April 3 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Dong Gyu Lim, UC Berkeley
EECS Colloquium: The Neural Code of Speech
Colloquium | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Edward Chang, Professor of Neurological Surgery, UC San Francisco
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Speaking is a defining behavior of our species. Our research seeks to understand the neural computations that govern our ability to speak and hear words. Advances in direct neurophysiological recordings from the human brain have led to a completely new view on the neural code that translates between sound and meaning. I will focus on our discoveries on the cortical representation of speech sounds... More >
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Constant curvature conical metrics
Seminar | April 3 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Xuwen Zhu, UC Berkeley
The problem of finding and classifying constant curvature metrics with conical singularities has a long history bringing together several different areas of mathematics. This talk will focus on the particularly difficult spherical case where many new phenomena appear. When some of the cone angles are bigger than $2\pi $, uniqueness fails and existence is not guaranteed; smooth deformation is not... More >
Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies: A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Session 6: Politics
Conference/Symposium | April 3 – 4, 2019 every day | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago; Jackie Urla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University; Judith Irvine, University of Michigan; Sarah Kessler, University of Southern California
Department of Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This is the sixth of seven two-day meetings of a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar taking place throughout 2018-2019. The seminar aims to explore the potential of a set of concepts, tools, and critical practices developed in the field of linguistic anthropology for work being done in the fields of literary and cultural criticism.
Academic Freedom: Past, Present and Future
Panel Discussion | April 3 | 5-7 p.m. | 402 Barrows Hall
Joan Scott, Professor Emerita, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton; Henry Reichman, Former Vice President, AAUP
Wendy Brown, Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley; Khalid Kadir, Lecturer, UC Berkeley; I-Wei Wang, Librarian, UC Berkeley School of Law
Academic freedom, the collective condition necessary for the flourishing of scholarship and teaching, is under assault – both from within and without the university. From within the university by pressures towards privatization and risk management; from without by both mobilized citizens and wealthy sponsors. These threats to academic freedom affect all involved in the academic project:... More >
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Traditions and Technologies: Ethical Engagements and New Directions in the Study of South Asian Medicines
Conference/Symposium | April 4 | 8 a.m.-4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 470 (morning) and 10 (afternoon)
Anthony Cerulli, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Vincanne Adams, UCSF; Shree Padma Holt, Bowdoin College; Lawrence Cohen, UC Berkeley
Robert P. Goldman, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
Institute for South Asia Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, Program for the Medical Humanities, Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Medical Anthropology (Joint Program with UCSF)
This day-long symposium aims to create a space for scholars of traditional South Asian Medicines working across disciplines to forge connections and discuss priorities for research directions in the field.
Hungary as a European Hub for Autonomous Vehicle Design and Validation
Seminar | April 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Dr. László Palkovics, Minister of Innovation and Technology of Hungary
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Abstract: Hungary, having a remarkable performance in the field of automotive industry production capacities, is becoming one of the key European hubs of developing autonomous driving systems with currently more than 10,000 development engineers working on these innovative technologies at various organizations in the country. Hungary also has a leading role in implementing and developing... More >
Applied Math Seminar: Surveillance-evasion games under uncertainty
Seminar | April 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University
Adversarial path planning problems are important in robotics applications and in modeling the behavior of humans in dangerous environments. Surveillance-Evasion (SE) games form an important subset of such problems and require a blend of numerical techniques from multiobjective dynamic programming, game theory, numerics for Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs, and convex optimization. We model the basic SE... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: Higher Moment Risk
Seminar | April 4 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Christian Jensen, Bocconi
Joint with Haas Finance Seminar
Replication Seminar, "Numerical Methods for Solving Heterogeneous Agents Models""
Presentation | April 4 | 12-2 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Alisdair McKay, Senior Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
I will cover two building blocks o fsolution methods for heterogenous agent macroeconomics: the endogenous grid method and non-stochastic simulation. I will describe how these two tools can be combined to solve for the stationary equilibrium, perfect foresight transitions, and fluctuations under uncertainty (Reiter method). I will focus on simple settings (e.g. Aiyagari 1994, Krusell-Smith 1998),... More >
Please RSVP:
RSVP by emailing Joseph G. Mendoza at jgmendoza@berkeley.edu
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar: "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio" (joint with Sam Norris and Matt Pecenco)
Seminar | April 4 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C325 Haas School of Business
Jeff Weaver, USC
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 >
Environmental Sustainability and Housing in California
Panel Discussion | April 4 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. | 250 Goldman School of Public Policy
Berkeley Institute for the Future of Young Americans; Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Please join us for a discussion with leading experts about enviornmental sustainability and housing in California. We will host Srinidhi Kumar from the California Housing Partnership; Steve Weissman, a lecturer at the Goldman School of Public Policy, and founder and former director of the Energy Program at Berkeley Law; and Seva Rodnyansky, postdoctoral scholar at the Berkeley Institute for the... More >
IB Seminar: Evolutionary History of Prey: 600 million Years of Predator-Prey Interactions in Earth’s Oceans
Seminar | April 4 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Michal Kowalewski, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Power, Agency and Representation: Filipino Americans in the Visual Arts
Panel Discussion | April 4 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Stephanie Syjuco, Assistant Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley; Lordy Rodriguez, Artist; PJ Gubatina Policarpio, Arts Educator
Filipino and Philippine Studies Working Group
This discussion will look at themes of agency and representation - what kinds of power one can exercise as a Filipino American working in the art world today, how a history of colonialism and dispossession might actually serve as a source of empowerment, and how this peripheral vantage point could lead to new, innovative forms of "seeing". More >
Detail from "I AM AN..." (Stephanie Syjuco, 2017)
Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar: Causal Effects of Capital Inflows
Seminar | April 4 | 1-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Nick Sander, UC Berkeley
Breastfeeding Your Baby/Returning to Work or School (BEUHS602)
Workshop | April 4 | 1-4:15 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Tina Benitez, IBCLC, Certified Lactation Consultant
This 3 hour class is taught by a certified lactation consultant and is broken up into two parts.
The first portion of the class, 1-3pm, addresses breastfeeding basics and problem solving. The second portion of class, 3:15-4:15pm, covers returning-to-work planning and breast pumps. Those who have already attended a breastfeeding class are welcome to join the last portion of the class.
Please... More >
Seminar 251, Labor Seminar: "Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap"
Seminar | April 4 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Dads, Daughters and Early Marriage in Migori County, Kenya
Presentation | April 4 | 2-3 p.m. | 5401 Berkeley Way West
Paula Tavrow, UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health
Please join us for a new speaker series on child marriage and youth empowerment hosted by Innovations for Youth (i4Y)'s Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Working Group!
Paula Tavrow, PhD, is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health. She is also the Director of UCLA's Bixby Program in Population and... More >
ESPM Seminar Series, Spring 2019
Seminar | April 4 | 3:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Daniel Sanchez, Assistant Extension Specialist at UC Berkeley, will present: "Near-term opportunities for carbon dioxide removal technology." Hosted by Matteo Garbelotto. Meet the speaker and enjoy refreshments after the talk in 139 Mulford Hall.
Statistical and Computational Challenges in Conformational Biology
Seminar | April 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Professor Mark Segal, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Chromatin architecture is critical to numerous cellular processes including gene regulation, while conformational disruption can be oncogenic. Accordingly, discerning chromatin configuration is of basic importance, however, this task is complicated by a number of factors including scale, compaction, dynamics, and inter-cellular variation.
The recent emergence of a suite of proximity... More >
New approaches for uncovering the role of energy metabolism in health and disease: Dr. Denis Titov, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, UC Berkeley
Seminar | April 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Center for Computational Biology, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology
Abstract:
Over the last century, many studies have demonstrated that calorie restriction (i.e. decreased food intake) and exercise cause lifespan extension in model organisms and decrease human mortality from age-associated diseases. Many physiological changes... More >
Linguistic Anthropology and Literary and Cultural Studies: A Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar: Session 6: Politics
Conference/Symposium | April 3 – 4, 2019 every day | 5-7 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago; Jackie Urla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University; Judith Irvine, University of Michigan; Sarah Kessler, University of Southern California
Department of Comparative Literature, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This is the sixth of seven two-day meetings of a Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar taking place throughout 2018-2019. The seminar aims to explore the potential of a set of concepts, tools, and critical practices developed in the field of linguistic anthropology for work being done in the fields of literary and cultural criticism.
Finding the Right Postdoc
Panel Discussion | April 4 | 6-7:15 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
What makes for a GREAT postdoc experience, and how can you ensure that this next step in your training will prepare you for a successful career? Panelists will discuss the process of identifying and pursuing postdoctoral opportunities. Why do a postdoc? What factors are important to consider, such as opportunities for publishing, relationships with colleagues/supervisors, funding? What are the... More >
Friday, April 5, 2019
2019 Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference In Premodern Chinese Humanities
Conference/Symposium | April 5 | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), IEAS Conference Room (510A)
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Stanford Center for East Asian Studies
Initiated in 2014, the annual Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities brings together graduate students from around the country and around the world who specialize in pre-modern Chinese studies.This national meeting of graduate students specializing in premodern Chinese studies aims to bring together young scholars from geographically distant institutions to... More >
Future of Social Ventures Conference and GSVC Global Finals: Celebrating 20 Years of the Global Social Venture Competition
Conference/Symposium | April 5 | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Haas School of Business
Institute for Business and Social Impact
Join us on Friday, April 5th at the Haas School of Business for the Future of Social Ventures Conference and GSVC Global Finals with members of the social impact community to advance and accelerate burgeoning social ventures from around the world.
$15 Students, Faculty and Staff $40 Alumni and General Public
IEEE Full-stack Blockchain Development Tutorial: This tutorial is co-located with five other IEEE conferences (IEEE DAPPCON, IEEE SOSE, IEEE MobileCloud, IEEE BigDataService, IEEE AITest) in 2019
Workshop | April 5 | 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. | DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark - Fremont
Dr. Lennart Frantzell, Developer Advocate, IBM; Dr. Divyesh Jadav, Manager in Cloud, IoT & Systems Lifecycle Analytics department, IBM Almaden Research Center; Dr. Chang-Wu Chen, Adjunct assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University; HU Yao-Chieh, Research scholar, UC Berkeley Blockchain Lab; LEE Ting-Ting, Research scholar, UC Berkeley Blockchain Lab
Coupon Code $100 Off for Berkeley Students: IEEETutorial2019
Registration Website: https://www.payblock.cash/event/dappcon-tutorial
IEEE DappCon'19 Conference: https://www.dappcon.net
Announcements.
- The tutorial registrants must bring their own laptop with any OS like Ubuntu or Mac, Window OS.
- We will send the software installation guidelines to the audience by April 2, 2019, if it... More >
Key Issues in the Current Global Economy
Conference/Symposium | April 5 | 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
What are the contours of superpower competition? How do middle powers interact with great powers in the 21st century? In East Asia, what options do middle powers in Asia such as
Global Ethnobotany Class with Kathleen Harrison
Course | April 5 | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison will share wide-ranging botany and history, with hands-on examples, images and stories about plant and mushroom uses from around the globe. A 4-part series, 1 day/month for 4 months. Learn about human uses of plants around the world. Observe cross-cultural patterns of traditional knowledge and practice in relationship to nature.
$350 / $325 UCBG Members Ticket price is for all sessions of this four-part class; classes can not be registered for individually
Register online or by calling 510-664-7606
Pleasure, Activated: Locating the Power of Reading
Panel Discussion | April 5 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 113 César E. Chávez Student Center
Beth Piatote, Associate Professor, Native American Studies; Eric Naiman, Professor, Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages & Literatures; Ian Duncan, Professor, English; Stephen M. Best, Associate Professor, English
Student Learning Center Writing Program
This faculty panel focuses on the relationship between reading and writing. Panelists will discuss how reading informs their scholarship and academic voice. Come discover how you can cultivate productive reading habits to broaden your intellectual repertoire and take your writing to new heights!
Labor Lunch Seminar: "Displacement Effects in Manufacturing: The Role of Firms"
Seminar | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Alice Kugler, University College London
Dancing for Fun and Fitness (BEUHS605)
Workshop | April 5 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 251 Hearst Gymnasium
Nadia Qabazard
Fit some fun and fitness into your day with these free, beginner dance classes. Zumba will be 9/7, Salsa will be 10/19, Hula / Polynesian will be11/2, and Zumba / Salsa will be 12/7. No partner required. Comfortable clothing and athletic shoes recommended.
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: Deep Cytometry and Other Applications of Time Stretch Instruments
Seminar | April 5 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, The Hogan Room, 521
Professor Bahram Jalali, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCLA
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Deep learning has achieved spectacular performance in image and speech recognition and synthesis. It is naturally
suited for applications where large amounts of data are available. Pioneered and advanced in the last 20 years, high
throughput instruments based on the Photonic Time Stretch have established record realtime measurement speed in
spectroscopy, interferometry, OCT, and imaging flow... More >
Disentangling The Strange Metal: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | April 5 | 2-3 p.m. | 4 LeConte Hall
Prof. James Analytis, UC Berkeley, Physics
Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute
Our research focuses on the discovery and understanding of exotic materials manifesting novel quantum phenomena that have both fundamental and technological implications, particularly superconductors, exotic magnets and topological materials. Many of the physical problems we are interested in transcend a single material.
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Lipschitz Minorants of Lévy Processes
Seminar | April 5 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Mehdi Ouaki, UC Berkeley
For $\alpha >0$, the $\alpha$-Lipschitz minorant of a càdlàg function f is the greatest $\alpha$-Lipschitz function that is dominated by f. We study the joint law of any two-sided Lévy process $(X_t)_{t \in \mathbb R}$ and its $\alpha$-Lipschitz minorant $(M_t)_{t \in \mathbb R}$. In particular, we consider $\mathcal Z$ to be the set of points where $X$ meets $M$, and prove that... More >
Special Quantum Geometry Seminar: There and back again: from the Borsuk-Ulam theorem to quantum spaces
Seminar | April 5 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Piotr M. Hajac, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences/ University of Colorado, Boulder
Assuming that both temperature and pressure are continuous functions, we can conclude that there are always two antipodal points on Earth with exactly the same pressure and temperature. This is the two-dimensional version of the celebrated Borsuk-Ulam Theorem which states that for any continuous map from the n-dimensional sphere to n-dimensional real Euclidean space there is always a pair of... More >
Composition Colloquium: Aviya Kopelman
Colloquium | April 5 | 3 p.m. | 250 Morrison Hall
Aviya Kopelman is a leading Israeli composer, born in Moscow, raised in Jerusalem and living in Tel-Aviv. Since 2014 she serves as the Composer-in-Residence of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Right upon her graduation recital, Aviya grabbed the attention of all of Israel’s major newspapers, that described her music as “distinct, radical, pure, expressive, dramatic, and personal”.
One of the... More >
Deformation Theory Seminar: Superpotentials in Mirror Symmetry
Seminar | April 5 | 3-4:20 p.m. | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Baker Room
Christopher Kuo, UC Berkeley
We will discuss the appearance of superpotentials for matrix factorizations from the symplectic side of Mirror Symmetry in the SYZ construction, with the monomial terms corresponding to components of the canonical boundary divisor.
MENA Salon: The Christchurch Massacre and responses from MENA
Workshop | April 5 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Every Friday the CMES hosts an informal guided discussion of current events in the Middle East and North Africa, open to all.
On March 15th 2019, a self-claimed white nationalist walked into a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand killing and wounding scores of worshippers during the Friday prayer. As the massacre sent shockwaves around the world, leaders responded with condolences and grief,... More >
Basic Needs, Access, and Marketplace Structures
Seminar | April 5 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Michael Buckland & Clifford Lynch
Connecting Needs, Documentation, and Evidence
Michael Buckland
A hermeneutic approach suggests a possible conceptual bridge between the most basic need for information and designs for the organization of access to recorded evidence. A brief continuation of our discussion on February 8.
New Marketplace Structures for Cultural Products and Implications for Stewardship
... More >
Logic Colloquium: Uniform bounds in Number Theory via Model Theory
Colloquium | April 5 | 4-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
François Loeser, Sorbonne Université
I will present some recent applications of Model Theory to uniform bounds in questions arising from Number Theory.
Student 3-Manifold Seminar: Haken hierarchies
Seminar | April 5 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Michael Klug, UC Berkeley
Compact surfaces with non-positive Euler characteristic can be inductively decomposed by cutting along finitely many properly embedded loops and arcs until one is left with a collection of disks; such a decomposition is called a hierarchy. An analogue up a dimension is called a Haken manifold, which can be inductively decomposed by cutting along two-sided incompressible surfaces until one is left... More >
Music Studies Colloquium: Travis Jackson (Chicago): Children of the New World, circa 1953: Inequality and the Twinned Histories of Ethnomusicology and Jazz Studies
Colloquium | April 5 | 4:30 p.m. | 128 Morrison Hall
Jackson interested, above all, in two intertwined processes: the ones through which musical sounds come into being and those that occur when groups and individuals engage with sounds—through listening, dancing, writing, etc. Much of his work, then, sits at the place where ideas about composition, recording and distribution meet those about reception and its embeddedness in culture, society, race,... More >
