Academic
Sunday, December 3, 2017
The Four Treasures of Brush Painting: Plum Blossoms with Karen LeGault: With Karen LeGault
Workshop | December 3 | 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
While there are many lessons in Asian Brush Painting, there are four classics of flower painting in the tradition of Chinese Brush traditionally known as the 'Four Gentleman,' this series will introduce these plants, including bamboo, plum blossoms, orchid, and chrysanthemum.
$75, $65 members | $265, $235 members for all Four
Register online or by calling 510- 664 - 9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Dissertation Talk: Design and Implementation of an Optionally-Typed Functional Programming Language
Seminar | December 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 405 Soda Hall
Patrick S. Li, U.C. Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This talk describes the design and implementation of L.B. Stanza (www.lbstanza.org), a general-purpose programming language aimed at tackling the complexity of architecting large programs and maximizing programmer productivity across the entire software development life cycle.
Monday, December 4, 2017
Dissertation talk: On learning Game-Theoretical models with Application to Urban Mobility
Presentation | December 4 | 9-10 a.m. | 337B Cory Hall
Jerome Thai
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Modeling real-world processes as convex optimization or variational inequality problems is a common practice as it enables to leverage powerful mathematical tools for the study of such processes. For example, in transportation science, the selfish behavior of agents (from shorted path routing) leads to an aggregate cost in the network worse than the system’s optimum, and which can be analytically... More >
FALL 2017 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FINAL REVIEWS: A100A
Presentation | December 4 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
MON, DEC 4, 9am-6pm. Students in ARCH 100A will present their projects to faculty.
Postdoc Seminar
Seminar | December 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Combinatorics Seminar: Combinatorics of Koornwinder polynomials at q=t and exclusion processes
Seminar | December 4 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Sylvie Corteel, MSRI
I will explain how to build Koornwinder polynomials at q = t from moments of Askey-Wilson polynomials. I will use the combinatorial theory of Viennot for orthogonal polynomials and their moments. An extension of this theory allows to build multivariate orthogonal polynomials. The key step for this construction are a Cauchy identity for Koornwinder polynomials and a Jacobi-Trudi formula for the... More >
Political Economy Seminar/PERL
Seminar | December 4 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Eleanor Wiseman, PhD Student, Berkeley
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | December 4 | 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 >
Thesis Seminar
Seminar | December 4 | 3-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Timothy Day, Flannery and Schaffer labs; Ryan Neely, Carmena lab
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
3pm: Timothy Day (Flannery and Schaffer labs)
Expanding the Potential of AAV Vectors for the Treatment of Intractable Inherited Retinal Degenerations
3:45p: Ryan Neely (Carmena lab)
Cortical and striatal circuits for learning adaptive behaviors, and wireless ultrasonic implants for interfacing with the nervous system
Reception to follow.
MBTG Seminar: "Biophysics of Intrinsically disordered proteins, single molecules to droplets"
Seminar | December 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Ashok Deniz, The Scripps Research Institute
Dissertation talk: Ultra-Low Power Inductively-Coupled Wireless Transcranial Links
Presentation | December 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 531 Cory Hall
Wen Li, BWRC
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Recent advancements in medical neural science and brain research have enabled demands for circuits and systems that interface with human/animal brain, which are called brain-machine interface (BMI). There are numerous applications for BMI: motor prosthetics, pre-surgical mapping, brain disease treatment and deep brain stimulation, just to name a few. In these applications, the large amount of... More >
Seminar 271, Development: Subways and Urban Air Pollution
Seminar | December 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Berkeley
Genomics and beyond: Predicting phenotypes at the individual, population and species level
Seminar | December 4 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Alejandro Burga, University of California, Los Angeles
Sound, Media and Literature in the Americas: The Morrison Library
Panel Discussion | December 4 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Tom McEnaney, Assistant Professor Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese, UC Berkeley; José Quiroga, Professor Spanish and Comparative Literature, Emory University; Freya Schiwy, Associate Professor Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
UC Berkeley Library, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies
A conversation in celebration of his new book - Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas
Book Talk Series: Acoustic Properties
Reading - Nonfiction | December 4 | 5-7 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Tom McEnaney
José Quiroga; Freya Schiwy
Tom McEnaney’s book explores the “coevolution” of the radio and the novel amid influential movements in populist politics in three countries in the mid-20th century: the New Deal in America;
Peronism in Argentina, and the Cuban Revolution. The book illustrates how governments, activists, and artists have struggled for control to represent the voice of the people within a changing media... More >
SLAM Seminar: Beyond the Carrot and the Stick: Mentorship in a Laboratory Setting
Seminar | December 4 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Professor Bob Bergman, UC Berkeley
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Science, Leadership and Management (SLAM) seminar.
SLAM: Beyond the Carrot and the Stick: Mentorship in a Laboratory Setting
Seminar | December 4 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Professor Bob Bergman, UC Berkeley
Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) Application Deadline
Deadline | December 4 | 11-11:50 p.m. | Haas School of Business
Institute for Business and Social Impact, Center for Social Sector Leadership
The Global Social Venture Competition is back for its 19th year of turning ideas into impact! If you are a young startup aiming to make a difference in the world, apply to compete in GSVC to win up to $80,000 in prizes!
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
FALL 2017 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FINAL REVIEWS: A100C & A200A
Presentation | December 5 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
TUE, DEC 5, 9am-6pm. Students in ARCH 100C & ARCH 200A will present their projects to faculty and guest critics.
Hummingbirds in Flight: Interview with Ashley Smiley, Department of Integrative Biology
Presentation | December 5 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM
Ashley Smiley, Department of Integrative Biology; Tesla Monson, Department of Integrative Biology
Tune in to a new episode of The Graduates this Tuesday to hear from Ashley Smiley, biologist and biomechanician in the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. The Graduates, featuring graduate student research at Cal, is broadcast every other Tuesday on KALX 90.7 FM and online.
Ashley Smiley in the collections
The Future of Airports
Presentation | December 5 | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | 542 Davis Hall
CE153 Airport Design
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Nine 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.
Aircraft parking at SFO
Visiting Scholars Colloquium featuring Gwilym Croucher and Irina Shcheglova
Colloquium | December 5 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Evans Hall, 766-768 CSHE Conference Room
Gwilym Croucher, Senior Lecturer/ Principal Policy Advisor, University of Melbourne; Irina Shcheglova, PhD Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Center for Studies in Higher Education
The Center for Studies in Higher Education is pleased to invite you to attend a presentation by two CSHE Visiting Scholars.
Student Hosted Seminar in Organic Chemistry: Ex Detritus, Scientia: Revelations from Catalyst Decomposition in Olefin Metathesis
Seminar | December 5 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Deryn Fogg, Centre for Catalysis Research & Innovation, and Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences
Olefin metathesis is the most versatile catalytic methodology now known for the assembly of carbon-carbon bonds. Long embraced by synthetic chemists in academia, it is now seeing uptake in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with the first processes coming on stream in 2014 and 2015 (Figure 1a).1 Notwithstanding the transformative potential of these methodologies, however, molecular metathesis... More >
Defective viral genomes: strong drivers of antiviral immunity and virus persistence
Seminar | December 5 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
Carolina Lopez, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pathobiology
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Land Reform: Lessons from Scotland
Seminar | December 5 | 1-2 p.m. | 133 Giannini Hall
Dr. Kirsteen Shields, University of Dundee
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Visiting Scholar, Dr. Kirsteen Shields will share her talk "Land Reform: Lessons from Scotland"
ABSTRACT: In post-independence referendum Scotland, renewed interest in revising the laws on tenure and ownership of land has been described as a land reform 'revolution'. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 sought to facilitate communities’ right to buy land in rural and urban settings. Central to... More >
i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group Speaker Series: Child Marriage: Policies, Legal Frameworks and Accountability
Seminar | December 5 | 2-3 p.m. | 198 University Hall
Ndola Prata, i4Y (Innovations for Youth)
About the presenter: Ndola Prata, MD, MSc is Director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health & Sustainability, a Professor in Residence in Maternal and Child Health and the Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. She is a physician and medical demographer from Angola. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, and... More >
3-Manifold Seminar: A tangle approach in the study of Legendrian knots.
Seminar | December 5 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Tao Su, UC BERKELEY
In this talk, I will present a tangle approach in the study of Legendrian knots. The 2 main ingredients are ruling polynomials (Legendrian analogues of Jones polynomials), and augmentation varieties ('moduli of rank 1 representations' of Chekanov-Eliashberg DGAs) for Legendrian tangles, where the point-counting of the latter recovers the former. The tangle approach in particular leads to new and... More >
HTML/CSS Toolkit for Digital Projects
Workshop | December 5 | 4:10-5 p.m. | Barrows Hall, D-Lab (Barrows 350)
Stacy Reardon; Cody Hennesy
If you've tinkered in WordPress, Google Sites, or other web publishing tools, chances are you've wanted more control over the placement and appearance of your content. With a little HTML and CSS under your belt, you'll know how to edit "under the hood" so you can place an image exactly where you want it, customize the formatting of text, or troubleshoot copy & paste issues.
EPMS Weekly Seminar
Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Engineering and Project Management Society
Each week the Engineering and Project Management Society brings in a speaker to talk about topics related to construction and project management. Light refreshments will be provided.
Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at... More >
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
FALL 2017 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO FINAL REVIEWS: A102A & A201
Presentation | December 6 | 9 a.m.-7 p.m. | Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
WED, DEC 6, 9am-7pm. Students in ARCH 102A & ARCH 201 will present their projects to faculty and guest critics.
Laptop and Mobile Ergonomics (BEUHS409)
Workshop | December 6 | 10-11 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Greg Ryan, Campus Ergonomist, Be well at Work - Ergonimics
Learn how to use your laptop safely in an office and mobile setting. Recommended mobile products and best practices for using smart phones and tablets will also be provided. Enroll online
Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement Workshop
Workshop | December 6 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
J-1 and J-2 visitors subject to this requirement must return to their country of last legal residence for two years or obtain a waiver before being eligible for certain employment visas such as H (temporary employment), L (intra-company transfer), or Permanent Resident status ("green card"). Not all J visitors are subject as it depends on specific factors.
At this workshop, you will... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "What makes the Lyme disease bacterium tick?"
Seminar | December 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Christine Jacobs Wagner, Yale University
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Our laboratory is part of the Microbial Sciences Institute at the Yale West Campus. Our group studies the temporal and spatial mechanisms involved in bacterial physiology, with emphasis on chromosome dynamics, cell division, cell cycle regulation, cell morphogenesis and RNA biology. Our primary model organisms are Caulobacter crescentus, Escherichia coli and the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia... More >
Christine Jacobs Wagner
“Evolution and Emergence of Functional RNA: Mapping the Fitness Landscape”
Seminar | December 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Irene Chen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara
Evolutionary outcomes are difficult, if not impossible, to predict, largely because the effect of any possible mutation is unknown. In other words, understanding evolution requires detailed knowledge of the relationship between sequence and activity, or the fitness landscape. Inspired by the RNA World of early life, in which RNA carried information and also performed catalytic functions, we study... More >
National Identity Narratives in Canadian and American Textbooks, 1850-2010: Fact or Fiction?
Colloquium | December 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Patricia Bromley, Stanford University
Canadian Studies Program (CAN))
National Identity Narratives in Canadian & American Textbooks, 1850-2010: Fact or Fiction?
Prof. Patricia Bromley
Stanford University
Wednesday, Dec 06, 2017
223 Moses Hall | 12 Noon
Buffet lunch at 12 noon followed by lecture at approximately 12:20.
Free Event | Open To Everyone
Part of the Canadian Studies Colloquium Series
The Canadian Studies Colloquium Series is made possible... More >
Population-level mortality benefits of improved blood pressure control in Indonesia: A parametric g-formula approach.”: Nikkil Sudharsanan, Harvard University
Colloquium | December 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Nikkil Sudharsanan, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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.
Research on Policing: Bias, Discretion, and Policy
Colloquium | December 6 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Jack Glaser, Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Institute of Personality and Social Research
Jack Glaser will describe the research he and his colleagues are conducting on racial bias in policing. This will include discussion of the relevant psychological research that helps to explain how racial discrimination occurs and analysis of policing data elucidating racial disparities. Glaser will discuss his efforts with the Center for Policing Equity to build the National Justice Database,... More >
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Connections, curvature, holonomy, and instantons
Seminar | December 6 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Raphael Zentner, University of Regensburg
We explain what connections and curvature have to do with representations of fundamental groups, and what instanton Floer homology or, more generally, instanton gauge theory, has to do with all this.
Insights into the mechanism of HIV-1 genome selection and packaging
Seminar | December 6 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Michael Summers, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Statistical Inference for Stochastic Approximation and Online Learning via Hierarchical Incremental Gradient Descent
Seminar | December 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Weijie Su, University of Pennsylvania
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is an immensely popular approach for optimization in settings where data arrives in a stream or data sizes are very large. Despite an ever-increasing volume of works on SGD, less is known about statistical inferential properties of predictions based on SGD solutions. In this paper, we introduce a novel procedure termed HiGrad to conduct inference on predictions,... More >
Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics Seminar: Spectra of quantum integrable systems, Langlands duality and category O
Seminar | December 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
David Hernandez, Paris Diderot (7)
The spectrum of a quantum integrable system is crucial to understand its properties. R-matrices give power tools to study such spectra. A better understanding of transfer-matrices obtained from R-matrices led us to the proof of several results for the corresponding quantum integrable systems. In particular, their spectra can be described in terms of "Baxter polynomials" as conjectured by... More >
An experimentally-accessible library of carbon schwarzites via zeolite-templating/Thermodynamics of reaction product distribution in nanoporous materials
Colloquium | December 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Efrem Braun, Ph.D. student in the Smit Group; Michelle Liu, Ph.D. student in the Smit Group
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Irreducible $SL(2,\mathbb C)$-representations of integer homology 3-spheres
Seminar | December 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Raphael Zentner, University of Regensburg
We prove that the splicing of any two non-trivial knots in the 3-sphere admits an irreducible $SU(2)$-representation of its fundamental group. This uses instanton gauge theory, and in particular a non-vanishing result of Kronheimer-Mrowka and some new results that we establish for holonomy perturbations of the ASD equation. Using a result of Boileau, Rubinstein and Wang (which builds on the... More >
Applied Math Seminar: Stability-preserving projection-based model order reduction for compressible flows
Seminar | December 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Irina Tezaur, Sandia National Laboratories
Projection-based reduced order modeling is a promising tool for bridging the gap between high-fidelity and real- time/multi-query applications such as uncertainty quantification (UQ), optimization and control design. A popular approach to building projection-based reduced order models (ROMs) for fluid problems is the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD)/Galerkin projection method. This method... More >
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Joseph Pickrell, Adjunct Professor, Department Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Seminar | December 6 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Center for Computational Biology
What can we learn from human genomics at scale and how do we get there?
Holiday Evergreen Wreath Workshop
Workshop | December 6 | 6-8 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Create a one-of-a-kind beautiful and festive wreath or garland to add to your holiday decorations. Greens from the Garden's global plant collection and other natural adornments are included.
$50/ $40 Garden members
Register online or by calling 510-664-9841, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
East Bay Science Cafe: Exploding Stars: Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe
Presentation | December 6 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Restaurant Valparaiso
1403 Solano Ave, Albany, CA 94706
Jeffrey Silverman
Some of the most energetic and fascinating objects in the Universe are exploding stars known as supernova. These colossal outbursts result from the deaths of stars and for a time can outshine the entire galaxy in which they’re found. Observations of distant supernova provided the first evidence that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up with time, rather than slowing down. This wholly... More >
Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures taken in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000
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.
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 >
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 >
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
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 >
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
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
Friday, December 8, 2017
CWED: A Symposium to Celebrate a Decade of Important Minimum Wage Research
Conference/Symposium | December 8 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Michael Reich, Co-Chair, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics; Sylvia Allegretto, Co-Chair, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics; Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Ben Zipperer, Economic Policy Institute; Ken Jacobs, UC Berkeley Labor Center; Claire Montialoux, Stanford University/CREST; Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; Bill Spriggs, Howard University; Lindsey Bullinger, University of Indiana; Will Dow, UC Berkeley
Laura Giuliano, UC Merced; Ian Perry, UC Berkeley Labor Center; Emmanuel Saez, UC Berkeley; Larry Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
Sandra Smith, Interim Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Carl Nadler, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
Anna Godoy, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
It has been ten years since the creation of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics (CWED), housed in the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE). Since then, CWED has become well-known for its trailblazing academic and policy research on a number of important economic issues, including the effects of the Great Recession, public sector workers, low-wage labor markets and, most... More >
Open Textbook Workshop
Workshop | December 8 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 127 (Academic Innovation Studio)
Rachael Samberg, Scholarly Communication Officer, Library
Sarah Cohen, Open Textbook Network
Are you an instructor who is concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on your students? Do you want to adopt or create innovative pedagogical materials? Explore possible open textbook solutions by attending a two hour workshop and writing a short textbook review. The Library will provide you with a $200 stipend for your efforts! Space is limited, so please submit a very brief... More >
Space is limited. Applications must be received by Dec. 1. Register online
Qigong with Director Eric Siegel
Workshop | December 8 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join UCBG Director, Eric Siegel, for a morning practice in Qigong (pronounced cheegong), a form of meditative exercise with repeated movements, gently stretching the core and limbs and building body awareness.
Free with Garden Admission
Keeping Fit During the Holidays (BEUHS663)
Workshop | December 8 | 12:10-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Cori Evans, MA, NSCA-CPT Wellness Program Specialist, Be well at Work - Wellness
Be Well at Work - Wellness
Keeping up your fitness routine during the holidays can be difficult enough and if you add in travel, you may find you stop altogether. Come learn easy ways you can turn a hotel room, airport gate, living room, or local park into a fun, energized workout zone and beat those holiday saboteurs. Resistance bands will be provided. Comfortable clothing and athletic shoes recommended.
Systems Science Methods: Examples from Maternal and Child Health
Presentation | December 8 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 198 University Hall
Becky Reno, MA, MSW, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Maternal and Child Health Program, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Join us to learn more about an applied, mixed methods
approach to pursuing racial and health equity.
Undergraduate & graduate students from all SPH programs are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch.
mchprogram@berkeley.edu. RSVP online
Open Textbook Workshop for Staff and Partners
Workshop | December 8 | 12:45-2:45 p.m. | 127 Dwinelle Hall
Rachael Samberg, Scholarly Communication Officer, Library
Sarah Cohen, Open Textbook Network
Are you a UC Berkeley staff or affiliate who is concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on students, or you are working with a faculty member who is? Do you want to support the adoption or creation of innovative pedagogical materials? Discover the landscape for affordable textbooks, and explore possible open textbook solutions at this workshop, and di
RSVP online by December 5.
Talking About Combinatorial Objects Student Seminar: Tropical Grassmannian and Dressian for a Matroid
Seminar | December 8 | 1-2 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Madeline Brandt, UC Berkeley
The Grassmannian $Gr_M$ of a realizable matroid $M$ is an algebraic variety which provides an example of a realization space for the matroid $M$. In this talk, we give a brief introduction to tropical geometry, and then we study the properties of two tropical objects related to $Gr_M$, namely its tropicalization and a tropical prevariety called the Dressian, whose points give all regular matroid... More >
Viewshed and Cost Distance Analysis in ArcGIS
Workshop | December 8 | 1-4 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Nico Tripcevich, Lab Manager, UC Berkeley, Archaeological Research Facility
Archaeological Research Facility
n this introductory GIS workshop we will conduct two common types of terrain-based analysis used by archaeologists: Viewshed and Cost-distance analysis.
Workshops cost $50 for non-UC attendees. The workshops are free for students, faculty, and staff. Make reservations online
Viewshed Analysis in ArcGIS
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Large Deviation Principle for random graphs III
Seminar | December 8 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou, UC Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology Annual Capstone Lecture: "From In Vitro Biochemical Reconstitution to Single Molecule Live Cell Imaging: Breaking Down Gene Regulation"
Seminar | December 8 | 3-4 p.m. | Bechtel Engineering Center, Sibley Auditorium
Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology Annual Capstone Lecture
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Practical Qualitative Data Analysis in ATLAS.ti [PC Version 8]
Workshop | December 9 – 10, 2017 every day | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Wildavsky Room, ISSI
2538 Channing Way , Berkeley, CA 94720-5670
Corey M. Abramson
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
This workshop will provide both a conceptual background and practical experience in computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA) using ATLAS.ti. The workshop begins by examining core elements of CAQDA, regardless of methodological orientation, discipline/profession, or platform. After instruction in the fundamental aspects of CAQDA, the course turns to the logic of the ATLAS.ti program,... More >
ATLAS.ti Training [PC Version 8]: December 9-10, 2017
Workshop | December 9 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues)
Prof. Corey Abramson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
Center for Ethnographic Research
This workshop will provide both a conceptual background and practical experience in computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA) using ATLAS.ti. After instruction in the fundamental aspects of CAQDA, the course turns to the logic of the ATLAS.ti program, and how it can be used as a tool for CAQDA.
By the end of the course, participants will have all the conceptual and practical tools... More >
FAMILY PROGRAM: Holiday Nature Crafts (Morning)
Workshop | December 9 | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
A Garden tradition, create gifts and decorations inspired by nature and the Garden's collection. Drop-in during program hours.
$20 Adult, $20 Child, $18 Member Adult, $18 Member Child
This registration link is for the morning program. Register online or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
FAMILY PROGRAM: Holiday Nature Crafts (Afternoon)
Workshop | December 9 | 1-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
A Garden tradition, create gifts and decorations inspired by nature and the Garden's collection. Drop-in during program hours.
$20 Adult, $20 Child, $18 Member Adult, $18 Member Child
This registration link is for the afternoon program. Register online or by calling 510-643-2755, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
