All events
Sunday, February 18, 2018
LAEP Symposium: The Aesthetics of Planting Design
Conference/Symposium | February 17 – 18, 2018 every day | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
FEB 17 - 18, 2018: The two-day symposium “The Aesthetics of Planting Design” will host twelve accomplished landscape architects and historians who will discuss planting design as an environmental art, using examples drawn from their own design work.
Women's Basketball vs. Stanford
Sport - Intercollegiate - Basketball | February 18 | Haas Pavilion
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Women's Basketball hosts Stanford in conference action at Haas Pavilion.
SOLD OUT - The Four Treasures of Brush Painting: Orchid with Karen LeGault
Workshop | February 18 | 9:30 a.m.-2:30 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
SOLD OUT.
SOGA Open Hours
Tour/Open House | January 28 – May 13, 2018 every Sunday | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Garden Location: on the corner of Walnut St. and Virginia St. in north Berkeley, CA
SOGA is an educational space designed for the community to share knowledge about organic urban agriculture and self-sufficiency in the food system. This type of experiential learning takes place during open volunteer hours, workshops, and DeCals (student-led courses at UCB). The garden, located on UC Berkeley property, is managed by undergraduate students and funded primarily through grants from... More >
Exploration of Forms: Afro-Cuban with José Francisco Barroso: Public Movement Workshop Series
Workshop | February 18 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Bancroft Studio (2401 Bancroft)
Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
TDPS presents a series of three spring workshops with Cuban dancer and choreographer José Francisco Barroso on January 28, February 18, and March 18, 2018. 10:30am-12pm. Free and open to the public. Live drumming.
San Quentin Prison Studio Mail Art Exchange
Workshop | February 18 | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As part of the exhibition Way Bay’s exploration of distinctly Bay Area creative centers, this workshop celebrates the San Quentin Prison Arts Program. Artists from the San Quentin studio will mail a package of art to BAMPFA. Join us in the Art Lab to see their artwork, learn about the program, and use our art making materials to create mail art to send back.
Lacrosse vs. Mercer
Sport - Intercollegiate - Lacrosse | February 18 | 12 p.m. | Memorial Stadium
Cal Bears Intercollegiate Sports
Cal Lacrosse hosts Mercer at Memorial Stadium.
Film: Satantango
Film - Feature | February 18 | 1 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Béla Tarr’s seven-and-a-half-hour opus of melancholia was hailed as one of the most important films of the 1990s—and as a definitive statement on the end of communism, an interim report on the state of humanity, and a prayer call for a society on the edge of collapse. The members of a rural farm collective eke out their days through a series of failed hopes, unsuccessful relationships, and... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – January 4, 2019 every Sunday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday with exceptions | 1:30-2:45 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Join us for a free, docent-led tour of the Garden as we explore interesting plant species, learn about the vast collection, and see what is currently in bloom. Meet at the Entry Plaza.
Free with Garden admission
Advanced registration not required
Tours may be cancelled without notice.
For day-of inquiries, please call 510-643-2755
For tour questions, please email gardentours@berkeley.edu... More >
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Performing Arts - Music | February 18 | 3-5 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Program:
John Adams/First Quartet
John Adams/Second Quartet
Samuel Adams/String Quartet in Five Movements
$48 (prices subject to change)
The St. Lawrence String Quartet performs Sunday, Feb. 18th at 3pm in Hertz Hall.
Counting Sheep: A Guerilla Folk Opera
Performing Arts - Theater | February 18 | 3-5 p.m. | Oakland Metro Operahouse
522 2nd Street, Oakland, CA 94607
The eclectic Toronto-based “guerilla-folk party-punk band,” Lemon Bucket Orkestra, leads a call to arms in the immersive and interactive Ukrainian folk-opera, Counting Sheep. Sung in traditional Ukrainian polyphony and bolstered by first-hand video footage from the streets of Kiev, the production invites audience members to dance, sing, and eat—and hurl foam bricks, dodge men with guns, witness... More >
$58 general admission (prices subject to change)
Buy tickets online or by calling Cal Performances at 510-642-9988, or by emailing Cal Performances at tickets@calperformances.org
International Alumni Career Chats (Business Careers for Non-business Majors)
Career Fair | February 18 | 6-7 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO)), Career Center
International students with majors in humanity and social science areas may face more challenging job market and hurdles with work authorization and visa requirements. Come and talk to the international alumni who graduated with the same majors as you and are working in the Bay Area.
Benefit Performance of The Vagina Monologues + Our Monologues: 2018 Authenticity without Apology
Performing Arts - Theater | February 16 – 18, 2018 every day | 7 p.m. | Wheeler Auditorium
Gender Equity Resource Center, VDay at Berkeley
Benefit double feature: first show is The Vagina Monologues, and the second show is Our Monologues! Proceeds go to help support local organization that work to end gendered violence.
$12 General, $20 VIP
Tickets go on sale January 22. Buy tickets online
Monday, February 19, 2018
Seminar 211, Economic History: NO MEETING, PRESIDENTS DAY
Seminar | February 19 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Seminar 231, Public Finance: HOLIDAY
Seminar | February 19 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 000 Evans Hall | Canceled
Seminar 271, Development: Presidents' Day
Seminar | February 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Canceled
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: No Meeting
Seminar | February 19 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Swahili Weekly Social Hour
Social Event | January 22 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Jupiter
2181 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
Speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Jupiter (check for location updates). This is an informal gathering to connect with other Swahili speakers on campus and in Berkeley. Each person will support their own beverage purchases (water, soda, coffee, tea, beer, etc.), but we will provide the good company! And of course, Swahili speaking only! All skill and... More >
UROC DeCal – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research (Hosted by UROC: Undergraduate Researchers of Color)
Course | January 29 – April 30, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 6-8 p.m. | 174 Barrows Hall
Istifaa Ahmed, UROOC
Office of Undergraduate Research
Ethnic Studies 98/198
Class Time: Mondays, 6pm-8pm, 1/22/18 - 4/30/18
Course Control Number (CCN): 24251
Units: 1-3 units
Student Instructor: Istifaa Ahmed
Welcome to our student-led organization and DeCal, Underrepresented Researchers of Color (UROC) – Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Academic Research! We seek to build a community of researchers of color... More >
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Science and Literacy Playgroup
Meeting | October 31, 2017 – May 15, 2018 every Tuesday with exceptions | 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA)
1255 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94702
Chancellor's Community Grant, Trybe Inc.
Have fun and meet other families in West and South Berkeley.
For Children ages 05 and their caregivers.
Free, drop-in, snacks, circle time, arts and crafts and science activities.
Melvin Calvin Lecture in Organic Chemistry: DNA-mediated Signaling
Seminar | February 20 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Prof. Jacqueline Barton, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech
Many experiments have now shown that double helical DNA can serve as a conduit for efficient redox chemistry over long molecular distances. This chemistry is exquisitely sensitive to perturbations in the DNA base stack, such as arise with base mismatches, lesions, and protein binding. We have now been exploring how this chemistry may be used within the cell for long range signaling. Increasingly,... More >
Developing new immunotherapeutics by exploiting structural insights with protein engineering
Seminar | February 20 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
K. Christopher Garcia, Stanford University
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH
Blood Drive
Special Event | February 20 | 11 a.m.-6 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, East Pauley Ballroom
Be Well at Work - Wellness Program
Blood Drives at UC Berkeley are sponsored by the American Red Cross (ARC) to provide much needed blood to hospitals throughout the Bay Area.
Blood Drives at UC Berkeley are held once a month. Appointments to donate are encouraged and walk-ins are always welcome. Drives are held at two locations on all dates from 11am-6pm: MLK- Student Union – East Pauley Ballroom and Red Cross Bloodmobile (at... More >
Innovative Genomics Institute Seminar Series: Not all spacers are equal: how guide RNA sequence identity shapes CRISPR-Cas immune response
Seminar | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 115 Energy Biosciences Building
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Dipa Sashital
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology | Iowa State University
"Not all spacers are equal: how guide RNA sequence identity shapes CRISPR-Cas immune response"
Energy Biosciences Building 115, Tuesday Feb 20th - 12pm to 1pm.
Lunch immediately after the seminar in the EBB lobby.
Climate Change, Climate Change Refugees, and Public Art
Lecture | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Christina Gerhardt, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Institute of European Studies, GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington DC
In Let Them Drown, the 2016 London Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein called attention, as Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor had done, to the nexus of climate change, (colonial) racism and poverty. But she shifted the spotlight onto the oft-overlooked low-lying island nations. And their current-day situation is dire.
In her talk, Professor Christina Gerhardt... More >
Rohingya Crisis Panel: Implications for Health and Human Rights
Seminar | February 20 | 12-1 p.m. | Li Ka Shing Center, 545 (Please arrive by 12:10pm @ 2nd floor elevators)
Dr. Rohini Haar; Dr. Nazneen Uddin
Center for Global Public Health, Human Rights Center, Institute for South Asia Studies, The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies
Dr. Rohini Haar and Dr. Nazneen Uddin
Mindfulness Meditation Group
Meeting | February 20, 2018 – January 5, 2021 every Tuesday | 12:15-1 p.m. | 3110 Tang Center, University Health Services
Tang Center (University Health Services)
The Mindfulness Meditation Group meets every Tuesday at 12:15-1:00 pm at 3110 Tang Center on campus. All campus-affiliated people are welcome to join us on a drop-in basis, no registration or meditation experience necessary. We start with a short reading on meditation practice, followed by 30 minutes of silent sitting, and end with a brief discussion period.
Distributive politics for an urbanizing continent: A view from Ghana
Colloquium | February 20 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Jeffrey Paller, Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco Department of Politics
Dominant social science approaches to distributive politics focus on elections and social characteristics. Yet these approaches often overlook the historical evolution of local contexts, as well as how certain residents and groups make meaning of specific goods and resources. This is particularly important in cities where land is scarce while property values rise, enabling politicians and leaders... More >
Development: "From safety to productive net? Unconditional Cash Transfer and agricultural outcomes in Cameroon" and "Voting for Quality? The Impact of School Quality Information on Electoral Outcomes"
Seminar | February 20 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Elise Wang Sonne; Marina Dias
3-Manifold Seminar: Tait colorings and instanton homology (continued)
Seminar | February 20 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Ian Agol, UC Berkeley
We'll continue discussing Kronheimer-Mrowka's SO(3) instanton invariant of webs and foams.
Learning interactive agents
Seminar | February 20 | 1 p.m. | Soda Hall, 430-438 Wozniak Lounge
He He, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
In this talk, I will present my recent work addressing challenges in real-time language processing and collaborative dialogue.
Publish Digital Books and Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks
Workshop | February 20 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle Hall 117 (Level D)
Maria Gould, Scholarly Communication and Copyright Librarian, Library
Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You'll leave the workshop with a project already under way!
ISF 110 - Free Speech in the Public Sphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Course | January 16 – May 3, 2018 every Tuesday & Thursday | 2-3:30 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Division of Undergraduate Education
In this spring 2018 class, we shall take up the nature of public speech from Socrates' public dissent to social media messaging today. The course reading will combine classic philosophical statements about the value of free, subversive and offensive speech; histories of the emergence of public spheres; and sociologies of technologically-mediated speech today.
Seminar 237/281, Macro/International Seminar: Topic Forthcoming
Seminar | February 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Martin Beraja, MIT
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "The effect of early education on social preferences"
Seminar | February 20 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Anya Samek, University of Southern California
Paris Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 20 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Peru Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 20 | 3-4 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): $L^p$ estimates on eigenfunctions for low regularity metrics
Seminar | February 20 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Albert Ai, UC Berkeley
We will consider $L^p$ estimates on eigenfunctions for elliptic operators on manifolds with low regularity (Lipschitz) metrics. To address the low regularity, we use a wave packet decomposition to reduce to estimates at a scale on which the Lipschitz coefficients can be approximated by $C^2$ coefficients. To obtain sharp results however, we also need to consider the possible energy overlap at an... More >
Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium: 3rd year talks
Colloquium | February 20 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Paul Krueger, Graduate Student, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley; Maria Eckstein, Graduate Student, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Toric degenerations from Tropical Geometry and Representation Theory
Seminar | February 20 | 3:45-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Lara Bossinger, University of Cologne
In this talk I will explain how toric degenerations arise from the tropicalization of a (projective) variety. In the context of varieties that are interesting from a representation theoretic point of view (e.g. Grassmannians or flag varieties) I will explain a construction of toric degenerations due to Fang, Fourier, and Littelmann called birational sequences. I will present many examples and... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Projective bundles and their Chow rings
Seminar | February 20 | 3:45-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Justin Chen, UC Berkeley
We give a gentle introduction to projective bundles, and explicitly describe their Chow rings (as we will see, this is closely related to the Chern classes as previously introduced). We will see how this allows us to describe Chow rings of interesting varieties, such as blowups along linear spaces.
From Turks to Mongols: David Ayalon’s Vision of the Eurasian Steppe in Islamic History
Lecture | February 20 | 4 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Reuven Amitai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), UC Berkeley Mongolia Initiative, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
This lecture seeks to survey and critically engage some of the ideas of David Ayalon (1914-98), and then to see where they might further be developed and applied. Although Ayalon is primarily known as a Mamlukist, and in fact can be called the father of Mamluk studies, he also turned his attention to other weighty matters in the study of Middle Eastern and Islamic history. Among these was the... More >
Student Hosted Colloquium: Exploring spectral signatures of hydrogen bonding: Vibrational spectra of solvated ions
Seminar | February 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Anne McCoy, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington
In this talk, I will discuss recent work in our group in which we made connections between proton transfer processes and hydrogen bonding and vibrational frequencies and intensities. Due to the large amplitude motions associated with proton transfer along a hydrogen bond, the vibrational spectra of these systems contain features that cannot be understood by the usual harmonic description of... More >
Unrest film screening and panel discussion: ME/CFS: Spotlighting a Neglected Disease
Film - Documentary | February 20 | 4:30-8 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Lily Chu, Board member, Stanford University ME/CFS Initiative; Ronald W. Davis, Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Jose G. Montoya, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Allison Ramiller MPH '19, Scientific Administrator, Solve ME/CFS Initiative
David Tuller MPH '06, DrPH '13, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Public Health
Join us for a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Unrest, chronicling the impact of ME/CFS on the lives of patients around the world, followed by a panel discussion comprised of members of the film team and local clinicians and scientists specializing in ME/CFS.
Shifting Borders: Art, Politics and Ethics Today: A lecture by Jacques Rancière
Colloquium | February 20 | 5-7 p.m. | 315 Wheeler Hall
Jacques Rancière, Saas-Fee & the University of Parris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis
Save the date! Jacques Rancière, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School at Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII: Vincennes—Saint-Denis, will be giving a public lecture entitled, "Shifting Borders: Art, Politics, and Ethics Today," on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 5:00pm.
With Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor Emeritus of European History at... More >
Google Hardware Tech Talk
Information Session | February 20 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This session will focus on Google engineers (and Berkeley alum!) who work on the hardware team. They’ll provide insight into Google’s emergence into the HW market, the ups and down the teams face, and perform demos. We’ll provide swag and food, please RSVP through the link below to let us know you’ll be in attendance!
ARCH Lecture: Kersten Geers
Lecture | February 20 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
TUES, FEB 20, 6:30pm. Please join us for a talk with renowned architect Kersten Geers of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. Open to the public!
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Earth Week 2018 Planning Committee
Meeting | January 31 – April 18, 2018 every Wednesday with exceptions | Sproul Hall
Student Environmental Resource Center
Are you interested in planning UC Berkeley's 2018 Earth Week? SERC is recruiting individual student leaders and/or student representatives from environmental student organizations to join the Earth Week 2018 Planning Committee. Sign up at tinyurl.com/EarthWeekCommittee
Computer Health Matters: User Friendly Workstations (BEUHS400)
Workshop | February 21 | 8:30-9:30 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Greg Ryan, Ergonomics@Work; Mallory Lynch, Ergonomics@Work
Learn how to set up a user-friendly workstation and practice stretches to help relieve computer-related aches and pains. This workshop is required to qualify for computer ergonomics matching funds.
Keyboards and Mice: Ergonomic Alternatives (BEUHS401)
Workshop | February 21 | 9:45-10:45 a.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Class of '42
Greg Ryan, Campus Ergonomist, Be well at Work - Ergonimics
Learn about the ergonomics of keyboards and pointing devices, including appropriate workstation set-up, postures, and techniques for using them. Find out about the keyboards and pointing devices covered by the Computer Ergonomics Matching Funds Program. Enroll online at the UC Learning Center.
An Inherent “Technology” for Steel Braced Structures
Seminar | February 21 | 10-11 a.m. | 542 Davis Hall
Konstantinos Skalomenos
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Steel braced frames constitute the main earthquake-resistant mechanism in steel structures but exhibit two main drawbacks. Steel braces provide with a limited post-yielding stiffness that may result in a soft-story failure mechanism and exhibit severe mid-length local buckling that leads to unstable energy dissipation and finally fracture.
Two-Year Home Country Physical Presence Requirement Workshop
Workshop | February 21 | 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 >
Brown Bag Lunch on Parks, Conservation, and Your Career
Meeting | February 21 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 139 Mulford Hall
Jon Jarvis, Executive Director, Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity; Patrick Gonzalez, Principal Climate Change Scientist, U.S National Park Service; Sarah Allen, Science Program Lead, U.S. National Park Service
California Outdoor Engagement Coaltion
The Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity is excited to announce an opportunity for students to join Jon Jarvis, Sarah Allen, and Patrick Gonzalez for a monthly one hour event where they can ask questions and seek advice about the National Park Service, climate change, careers, conservation, and much more. Space is limited, you must RSVP to attend the event.
RSVP Required
RSVP online or or by emailing Rhonie Roggers at rhoniedee1993@berkeley.edu by February 20.
Noon Concert: Jazz X 2 A double bill featuring the UC Jazz Ensemble and Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective
Performing Arts - Music | February 21 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Fall welcome misc.
A double bill featuring the UC Jazz Ensemble and Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective
Directed by Ted Moore and the Berkeley Nu Jazz Collective, directed by Myra Melford.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Featuring the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities, the Department of Music presents a series of free weekly concerts each semester in Hertz Hall. Inaugurated in 1953, these... More >
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Mike Shapiro: Fancy feet and a checkered past: Genetics of diversity in Darwin's pigeons
Seminar | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 VLSB, 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: "Life on the inside: the evolutionary consequences of intracellular parasitism in cryptic Fungi"
Seminar | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
I'm interested in all aspects of fungal biology. My research is focused on addressing three fundamental questions in mycology: (1) How do fungi evolve the ability to switch hosts or adapt to utilize various substrates? (2) How do fungi interact with other microorganisms? and (3) Where are potential unexplored habitats of novel fungal diversity? Genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics,... More >
Evidences (both Archaeological and Textual) for Long-Distance Trade Networks and Weighted Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Near Eastern Bronze Age (1950-1750 BCE)
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Adam Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Digital Humanities
Archaeological Research Facility
Archaeology in the Middle East or Near East has a long and illustrious history, with more than 150 years of scholarship. From the 1840s onward western archaeologists like Sir Austen Henry Layard made early discoveries of textual artifacts in the heart of Mesopotamia, and awoke a deep curiosity in deciphering the beginnings of human history. Unfortunately, these discoveries inadvertently... More >
A Talk with Jacob Gaboury
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Jacob Gaboury, Assistant Professor of Film & Media, University of California, Berkeley
Jacob Gaboury is a historian of digital media, studying the ways people have imagined, developed, and used digital images over the past seventy years. His forthcoming book is titled Image Objects (MIT Press, 2018), and offers a material history of early computer graphics and visual simulation. He is currently Assistant Professor of New Media History and Theory in the Department of Film & Media at... More >
Townsend Center Berkeley Book Chat: Peter Sahlins: 1668: The Year of the Animal in France
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, 220 Stephens
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Professor of History Peter Sahlins explores the “animal moment” in and around 1668, in which French authors, anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings.
Contraceptive Choice Across the Reproductive Life Course: Megan Sweeney, UCLA
Colloquium | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Megan Sweeney, Professor, UCLA Department of Sociology
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.
Decolonial and Deimperial Crossings: An Inter-Asian Feminist Genealogy
Lecture | February 21 | 12-2 p.m. | 602 Barrows Hall
Laura Kang, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine
Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Part of the Feminist Studies and Decolonial Epistemologies Lecture Series
This talk recalls and retraces the inter-Asian network of feminist mobilizations against Japanese sex tourism and U.S. military prostitution in the early 1970s. The work of attending to the discrepant yet linked histories of imperialist sexual violence, military dictatorship, and neocolonial exploitation of Asian women’s... More >
Technology Development for the Field of Regenerative Medicine: CITRIS Spring 2018 Research Exchange Series
Seminar | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Jan A. Nolta, Director of the Stem Cell Program, UC Davis School of Medicine
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Jan A. Nolta, Ph.D., is the Director of the Stem Cell Program at UC Davis School of Medicine, and directs the Institute for Regenerative Cures. Join her as she speaks on the fields of stem cells, immunotherapy, gene therapy and regenerative medicine are poised to change the face of healthcare.
Small States and Secondary Actors in the Cold War: Entanglements Between Europe and Latin America
Lecture | February 21 | 12-1 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Albert Manke, GHI West
Institute of European Studies, GHI West. Pacific Regional Office of the Germany Historical Institute Washington DC, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES)
What kind of relations could small states and secondary actors establish with each other during the Cold War? To which extent were they able to overcome ideological boundaries and/or superpower dominance? Based on archival research in Cuba and the Czech Republic and extensive exchange with colleagues specialized on Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, Albert Manke will provide an... More >
Why Is the Information Revolution So Scary?
Lecture | February 21 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse
2020 Addison, Berkeley, CA 94704
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
A look at information and its discontents with University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeff MacKie-Mason.
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | February 21 | 1:30-3:30 p.m. | 115 Energy Biosciences Building
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 >
Mathematics in Berlin Information Session
Information Session | February 21 | 2-3 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Algebraic and topological properties of big mapping class groups
Seminar | February 21 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Priyam Patel, University of California, Santa Barbara
The mapping class group of a surface is the group of homeomorphisms of the surface up to isotopy (a natural equivalence). Mapping class groups of finite type surfaces have been extensively studied and are, for the most part, well-understood. There has been a recent surge in studying surfaces of infinite type and in this talk, we shift our focus to their mapping class groups, often called big... More >
Imperfect immunity: estimation and epidemiological implications
Lecture | February 21 | 3-4 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Joseph A. Lewnard, PhD
The persisting burden of vaccine-preventable infections underscores challenges associated with the imperfect immune response elicited by many vaccines. I introduce statistical problems undermining causal inference of imperfect vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, motivating the use of models to account for the natural history of infectious agents. I next describe ongoing work applying such models... More >
The North Korean Quagmire and the Moon Jae-in Government: Nukes, Humanitarian Assistance, and Prospects for Inter-Korean Relations
Lecture | February 21 | 3 p.m. | Barrows Hall, 8th Floor Social Science Matrix
Chung-in Moon, Distinguished University Professor at Yonsei University John Linton, Director, International Health Care Center, Severance Hospital of Yonsei Medical School; John Linton, Director, International Health Care Center, Yonsei University Severance Hospital
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Berkeley APEC Study Center, Social Science Matrix, Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
With the ongoing crisis over North Korean nuclear weapons, questions of humanitarian assistance to North Korea have fallen by the wayside. Prof. Chung-in Moon will talk about the Moon Jae-in government’s policy towards North Korea. Prof. John Linton will talk about about overall humanitarian conditions in... More >
Film: The End of St. Petersburg
Film - Feature | February 21 | 3:10 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
An exploited peasant suffers through the horrors of war and capital before awakening to the possibility of revolution in Pudovkin’s 1927 dramatic epic, made alongside Eisenstein’s October to honor the tenth anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. While October offers a more sweeping, collectivist account of the period, The End of St. Petersburg benefits from a more personal focus on how the... More >
Low-temperature localization of directed polymers
Seminar | February 21 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Erik Bates, Stanford University
On the d-dimensional integer lattice, directed polymers are paths of a random walk that have been reweighted according to a random environment that refreshes at each time step. The qualitative behavior of the system is governed by a temperature parameter; if this parameter is small, the environment has little effect, meaning all possible paths are close to equally likely. If the parameter is made... More >
London Summer Abroad Information Session
Information Session | February 21 | 3:15-4:15 p.m. | 442 Stephens Hall
Come learn how you can study abroad with UC Berkeley faculty this summer! Join us for an informational session and learn how you can check off breadth requirements while immersing yourself in an international experience!
“Biologically Inspired Engineering: From Mechanotherapeutics to Human Organs-on-Chips”
Seminar | February 21 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 105 Stanley Hall
Donald E. Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard University
In this presentation, I will describe work we have been carrying out at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard that I head, which leverages biological design principles to develop new engineering innovations. I will highlight recent advances that my team has made in the engineering of “Organs-on-Chips”— microfluidic devices lined by living human cells created with... More >
Weina Wang- Delay Bounds And Asymptotics In Cloud Computing Systems
Seminar | February 21 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Weina Wang, Illinois Urbana-Campaign
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
With the emergence of big-data technologies, cloud computing systems are growing rapidly in size and becoming more and more complex, making it costly to conduct experiments and simulations. Therefore, modeling computing systems and characterizing their performance analytically are more critical than ever in identifying bottlenecks, informing system design, and facilitating provisioning.
WEBINAR: F-1 Optional Practical Training (OPT) Question and Answer Session
Workshop | February 21 | 4-5 p.m. | Online Webinar
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
If you are graduating soon and have questions about applying for F-1 employment eligibility after you graduate, then sign up for this ONLINE Webinar. We'll do a brief overview of the OPT application process and timelines, followed by a Question and Answer session.
Prior to attending this webinar, you need to review the OPT Tutorial... More >
Recent Advances in Algorithmic High-Dimensional Robust Statistics
Seminar | February 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Ilias Diakonikolas, USC
Fitting a model to a collection of observations is one of the quintessential problems in machine learning. Since any model is only approximately valid, an estimator that is useful in practice must also be robust in the presence of model misspecification. It turns out that there is a striking tension between robustness and computational efficiency. Even for the most basic high-dimensional tasks,... More >
Spatially Organized Lipid Droplet Biogenesis and its Roles in Cellular Stress Response
Seminar | February 21 | 4-5 p.m. | Morgan Hall, Room 101
Mike Henne, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Homomorphisms of pure mapping class groups to the integers
Seminar | February 21 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Priyam Patel, University of California, Santa Barbara
A classical theorem of Powell (with roots in the work of Mumford and Birman) states that the pure mapping class group of a connected, orientable, finite-type surface of genus at least 3 is perfect, that is, it has trivial abelianization. We will discuss how this fails for infinite-genus surfaces and give a complete characterization of all homomorphisms from pure mapping class groups of... More >
Marxism Engages Bourdieu
Colloquium | February 21 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues)
Michael Burawoy, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
The influence of Pierre Bourdieu's thought has spread across disciplines and over the world. Like all the great sociologists before him, his theory emerges from a critique of Marx. In Bourdieu’s case the critique revolves around Marx’s failure to develop a theory of cultural domination. But, like his predecessor sociologists, Bourdieu reduces Marxism to Marx and, thus, never engages such figures... More >
CS Seminar: Closing the Loop on Secure Systems Research
Seminar | February 21 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 Soda Hall - HP Auditorium
Amit Levy, PhD. Candidate, Stanford
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
I'll describe Tock, an operating system for microcontrollers we designed with these principles in mind. I'll discuss how we continuously evaluate Tock by engaging with practitioners, and how lessons from practitioners have fed back into the system's design.
Shortly on the true horizon of Li ion batteries and adventures beyond Li ion batteries: Li oxygen and Li sulfur battery systems with Li metal anodes
Colloquium | February 21 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Doron Aurbach, Bar-Ilan University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Li ion batteries which power most of our mobile electronic devices may be considered as the most impressive success of modern electrochemistry. This energy storage & conversion technology is pushed now to the great challenge of electro-mobility, which requires high energy density, prolonged cycle-life and excellent safety features. I will review briefly the true horizon of these systems in terms... More >
Looking Around, Rather Than Ahead: Design at the Periphery of Contemporary High Tech Development
Lecture | February 21 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Sarah Fox
How technology design can help us understand different social phenomena.
Scalar for Multimedia Digital Projects
Workshop | February 21 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, D-Lab, 350 Barrows Hall
Stacy Reardon, Library
Scalar is a web platform designed especially for multimedia digital projects and for multimedia academic texts. Choose it to develop born digital projects and books, or as a companion site for traditional scholarship. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll learn how to create a Scalar project, create pages and media, add metadata and annotations, and define paths.
San Francisco World History Reading Group: China's Asian Dream by Tom Miller
Meeting | February 21 | 5-7 p.m. | Civic Center Secondary School
727 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA
ORIAS (Office of Resources for International and Area Studies)
Teachers in ORIAS World History Reading Groups read one book each month within a global studies theme. Participants meet monthly to eat and spend two hours in collegial conversation. It is a relaxing, intellectually rich atmosphere for both new and experienced teachers.
This event is for k-14 teachers.
Register online or or by emailing Shane Carter at orias@berkeley.edu
Reconfiguration of Ceramic Production and Trade in China at the Threshold of Global Trade: An Archaeological Perspective
Lecture | February 21 | 5-7 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Li Min, UCLA
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies
Taking archaeological ceramics from production, transportation, and consumption sites during the 13th to 17th century, this paper examines the changing configuration of ceramic production and trade on Chinese coast during the critical transition from the Asiatic Trade Network to the beginning of early global trade. I will explore how potter communities in China linked to emerging maritime... More >
IXL Learning Info-Session
Information Session | February 21 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Learn how IXL is advancing education through online technology! Join our IXLers as they talk about their experiences post graduation, why they chose to work in edtech, and how you can join our team!
Co-Hosted by UPE
UC Berkeley Startup Networking Night
Reception | February 21 | 5:30-8:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Chou Hall, Spieker Forum
Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership
Join UC Berkeley's Haas MBA program, Master of Engineering program, and School of Information for our fourth annual career networking reception. This year held in the Berkeley Haas campus' newest building, Chou Hall.
This event provides startups and industry disruptors with the opportunity to meet with UC Berkeley graduate students and alumni who are looking to network, pursue full-time... More >
The Gallery and the Archive: Contemporary Artists Work with The Magnes Collection
Lecture | February 21 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Join David Wilson, Greg Niemeyer and Nicki Green, three contemporary artists who, in recent years, have interacted with The Magnes Collection and contributed to exhibitions that intersect new works with art and artifacts from the collection itself, in a conversation about art, creativity, archives, and memory, moderated by Francesco Spagnolo.
David Wilson, an artist based in Oakland, worked... More >
Philippe Pirotte and Niklaus Largier in Conversation
Lecture | February 21 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Senior Adjunct Curator Philippe Pirotte, who organized Agony in Effigy: Art, Truth, Pain, and the Body, is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of German and comparative literature Niklaus Largier, whose recent work explores the relation between bodily ascetic practices and the literary imagination. The discussion will expand and deepen the literary and cultural context for the... More >
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | July 2, 2014 – December 26, 2018 every Wednesday | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3119 Etcheverry Hall
Toastmasters has been the world leader in teaching public speaking since 1924. Meetings are an enjoyable, safe, self-paced course designed to get you up and running as a speaker in only a few months.
Holloway Reading: Alan Felsenthal with Mary Wilson
Reading - Literary | February 21 | 6:30-8:15 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Alan Felsenthal, The Song Cave
Department of English, Holloway Reading Series
Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan’s writing has appeared in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Critical Quarterly, Fence, jubilat, and Harper’s. Lowly, published by Ugly Duckling Presse, is his first collection of poems.
Film: Fish Tail
Film - Feature | February 21 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Between 1998 and 2002, Portuguese filmmakers Joachim Pinto and Nuno Leonel (What Now? Remind Me) shot footage of their friend Artur and his family, fishermen living in the remote Azores Islands, who fear that the end of small-scale fishing is near. They returned to the footage recently to create this beautiful, moving essay film. With respect and affection, they observe and consider their... More >
Cine Latino: Woodpeckers
Film - Feature | February 21 | 7-9 p.m. | 102 Wurster Hall
Center for Latin American Studies
Standing in windows or out in prison yards, love – and heated liaisons – blossom. Shot on location at the actual prison using real inmates for all but the lead roles, it was the first Dominican film to screen at the Sundance Film Festival.
Image in "Woodpeckers." (Photo courtesy of Outsider Pictures.)
The City Will Never Be the Same: Lost Radical Cultures in San Francisco's Montgomery Block: A talk with journalist Hiya Swanhuyser
Lecture | February 21 | 7-9 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment), IRLE Director's Room
Hiya Swanhuyser, https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment, California Studies Association, Townsend Center for the Humanities
When it was built in 1853, the “Monkey Block”was probably the largest and most important office building in the Far West. But as the commercial center of the city moved south, the building became occupied by bohemian artists, writers, and cultural radicals. Bay Area journalist Hiya Swanhuyser will discuss her new book, The City Will Never Be the Same: Lost Radical Cultures in San Francisco's... More >
The Lincoln Legacy: The Man and His Presidency: Tony Kushner and Sarah Vowell
Panel Discussion | February 21 | 8-10 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Program: Playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner and author and radio personality Sarah Vowell meet for a conversation about Abraham Lincoln, reflecting on his leadership and legacy and the challenges of American democracy in his time and ours. Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play Angels in America, Kushner later wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s biopic Lincoln. Vowell has... More >
$25–$52 (prices subject to change)
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