All events
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Finance Academy at Berkeley Law
Course | October 26 – 28, 2018 every day | 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room
Berkeley Law Executive Education, Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy
The Berkeley Law Finance Academy is a three-day certificate academy that aims to introduce a practical framework for financial information analysis, provide an understanding of the key drivers of corporate value creation, teach key valuation models and techniques, provide tools for analyzing and interpreting corporate financial statements, and explore how financial information analysis and... More >
Docent-led tour
Tour/Open House | January 6, 2017 – December 30, 2018 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 >
AIA - Ellen and Charles S. La Follette Lecture - Murder in the Agora: Violent Death and Illicit Burial in Ancient Athens
Lecture | October 28 | 2 p.m. | 142 Dwinelle Hall
Maria Liston, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo
San Francisco Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
Violent crime and homicides are not a problem limited to the modern world alone, and the ancient city of Athens experienced similar events throughout antiquity. A recent study of all the human skeletons found in wells excavated by the American Excavations in the Athenian Agora has found that many of these individuals died violently. Some of the dead, including women and children, appear to be... More >
Barber Shop Chronicles: A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse Co-production
Performing Arts - Theater | October 28 | 2-4 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall
Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Cal Performances
Barber Shop Chronicles, created by Nigerian-born, UK-based poet and playwright Inua Ellams, explores the diversity of black male identity through the rituals and verbal banter of the urban barbershop. The cast riffs on topics both personal and political—from sports to race relations to views about fatherhood and masculinity—as we eavesdrop on conversations in six different barbershops in London,... More >
$30-78 (prices subject to change)
Tickets go on sale August 7. Buy tickets online or by calling 5106429988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
Barber Shop Chronicles, A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse Co-production, runs Friday–Sunday, October 26–28, 2018 in Zellerbach Hall.
In Darkness
Film - Feature | October 28 | 2-4:20 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Claustrophobic and searing, In Darkness is based on a true story that occurred in Lvov, Poland, during the Nazi occupation. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief, encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers, beneath the bustling activity of the city above. Holland and her cast and crew, who... More >
University Wind Ensemble
Performing Arts - Music | October 28 | 3 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
Matthew Sadowski, director
The University Wind Ensemble is offered for the study and practice of traditional and contemporary wind band repertoire. The Wind Ensemble’s long history at Cal dates back to before the 1930s, when the group was directed by Charles Cushing. In 1950, James Berdahl assumed the directorship and remained until the late 1970s. The Wind Ensemble’s activities were revived... More >
$16 General Admission, $12 non-UCB students, seniors, current/retired UCB faculty and staff, groups 10+, $5 UCB students
Buy tickets online or by calling 510-642-9988, or by emailing tickets@calperformances.org
The Blessed Ones
Film - Feature | October 28 | 3-4:20 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television technology, The Blessed Ones is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man, and the jealousies that arise from their outward differences and internal melancholies. The schoolteacher Viveka ekes out a life, seemingly keeping on through sheer willpower; the failed theology student Sune barely has... More >
Trees and Tones - Wooden Instrument Traditions: African Blackwood and Oboes
Presentation | October 28 | 4-6:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
African Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) is the tree from which flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bagpipes are made. This presentation includes a talk and musical performance.
$40 / $35 UCBG Member / $20 student
Register online or by calling 510-664-7606, or by emailing gardenprograms@berkeley.edu
Sandra
Film - Feature | October 28 | 7-8:45 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Visconti’s wondrous mood piece is an Elektra story of incestuous passions and family secrets, set in the crumbling Italian city of Volterra. Claudia Cardinale brings her new American husband home to meet her mother and brother on a very particular occasion: a memorial is being unveiled for her father, who died at Auschwitz. It isn’t the ghosts of the dead that haunt this home, however, but the... More >
Monday, October 29, 2018
Transforming Trauma
Information Session | October 29 | 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, The Trauma Stewardship Institute
The Trauma Stewardship Institute
How to Navigate Amidst Overwhelming Times
Whether because of trauma, crises, or extremely rough days.
Please join us for a day of raising awareness of trauma, vicarious trauma, and systematic oppression.
This workshop will address how we’re being impacted by current and past overwhelm, crises, toll, or trauma and establish concrete means for how to keep on keeping on both individually and... More >
Set Summary Perception, Outlier Pop Out, and Categorization: A Common Underlying Computation?
Seminar | October 29 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Shaul Hochstein, Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Recent research has focused on perception of set statistics. Presented briefly with a group of elements, simultaneously or successively, observers report precisely the mean of a variety of set features, but are unaware of individual element values. This has been shown for both low and high level features, from circle size to facial expression. A remaining puzzle is how can the perceptual system... More >
Free Speech and Voting Rally
Special Event | October 29 | 12-1 p.m. | Sproul Plaza, Savio Steps
Lynne Savio, widow of Free Speech activist Mario Savio; Leon Wofsy, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry; Leon Litwack, Professor Emeritus of History; Charles Sellers, Professor Emeritus of History; Malcolm Burnstein, Free Speech Movement Attorney
Carol Christ, Chancellor
Department of History, Division of Student Affairs
“Free speech doesn’t come from a simple declaration. It is a process of engagement.” - Chancellor Carol Christ
Revisit the 1964 Free Speech Movement with remarks by UC Berkeley emeriti who lived through it. Prepare to exercise your right to vote on November 6 with remarks by current faculty and students.
PF Lunch Seminar:
Seminar | October 29 | 12-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Charlotte Bartels, DIW Berlin; Timm Bönke, Freie University Berlin
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Charlotte Bartels - "Was Marx right? Income inequality, capital share and voting behavior in late 19th century Germany"
Timm Bönke - “Lifetime inequality and redistribution in Germany”
RSVP online by October 25.
Environmental Justice & the Borderlands
Lecture | October 29 | 12-1:30 p.m. | The Latinx Research Center
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Dr.Carolina Prado, https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/carolina-prado
Dr.Carolina Prado analyzes the participation of a Tijuana-San Diego social movement network with border environmental governance structures in the U.S.-México border region. Based on 2015 interviews with governance actors in the governmental, social movement & private realms, this lecture delineates an intervention in the field of community participation in environmental governance & a set of... More >
Oct 29 Environmental Justice & the Borderlands
Mindfulness at Moffitt: Moffitt Wellness Program
Workshop | October 1 – December 10, 2018 every Monday with exceptions | 12-1 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 501 (Wellness Room)
Help focus your mind and foster your creativity. Increase your resiliency and well being. Join Jeffrey Oxendine of the School of Public Health for mindfulness practice.
All experience levels welcome; weekly practice or drop in attendance also welcome. Mondays from noon to 1pm.
Must have campus I.D. (Cal 1 card) for entrance
Moffitt Wellness Program
Combinatorics Seminar: Nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials and Demazure characters
Seminar | October 29 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Sami H. Assaf, University of Southern California
Macdonald introduced symmetric functions in two parameters that simultaneously generalize Hall—Littlewood symmetric functions and Jack symmetric functions. Opdam and Macdonald independently introduced nonsymmetric polynomial versions of these that Cherednik then generalized to any root system. Sanderson and Ion showed that these nonsymmetric Macdonald polynomials with one parameter specialized... More >
Children Learning to Collaborate: Cultural Paradigms
Colloquium | October 29 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | 1102 Berkeley Way West
Barbara Rogoff, University of California, Santa Cruz
How do children learn to collaborate with others? In this talk, Barbara Rogoff discusses cultural differences in children's collaboration and in supports for learning to collaborate. She argues that collaboration is a key aspect of a cultural paradigm for learning that is especially prevalent in many Mexican and Indigenous-heritage communities of the Americas, where children have wide opportunity... More >
Visiting Scholar Talk: Mona Kasra
Lecture | October 29 | 1-2 p.m. | Moffitt Undergraduate Library, 340 BCNM Commons
Mona Kasra, Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia
Mona Kasra is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Virginia (UVa). A cross-disciplinary scholar, Mona examines political and theoretical questions about the power of online images in our digital culture and cross-culturally in her research. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, including The Society for Photographic Education (SPE),... More >
String-Math Seminar: Coulomb branch integrals and mock modular forms
Seminar | October 29 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Georgios Korpas, Trinity College Dublin & University of Athens
We revisit Donaldson-Witten theory, that is the \(N=2\) topologically twisted super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group \(SU(2)\) or \(SO(3)\) on compact 4-manifolds. We study the effective action in the Coulomb branch of the theory and by considering a specific \(Q\)-exact deformation to the theory we find interesting connections to mock modular forms. A specific operator of this theory computes... More >
Seminar 211, Economic History: The Effect of Political Power on Labor Market Inequality: Evidence from the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Seminar | October 29 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Abhay Aneja, UC Berkeley
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Polylogarithms, Chabauty's method, and the S-unit equation
Seminar | October 29 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
David Corwin, UC Berkeley
In the first half, we will review Chabauty's and Skolem's methods. We will then explain how these can be generalized to the non-abelian Chabauty's method of Minhyong Kim. If time allows, I will also mention polylogarithms.
In the second half, we will describe work by the speaker and Ishai Dan-Cohen, building on previous work of Brown, Dan-Cohen, and Wewers, that computes with Kim's method in the... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Polylogarithms, Chabauty's Method, and the S-Unit Equation
Seminar | October 29 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
David Corwin, UC Berkeley
In the first half, we will review Chabauty's and Skolem's methods. We will then explain how these can be generalized to the non-abelian Chabauty's method of Minhyong Kim. If time allows, I will also mention polylogarithms.
In the second half, we will describe work by the speaker and Ishai Dan-Cohen, building on previous work of Brown, Dan-Cohen, and Wewers, that computes with Kim's method in the... More >
Vision to Action: Towards a Cellular-Resolution Atlas of the Zebrafish Visual and Visuomotor System
Seminar | October 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Herwig Baier, Department Genes – Circuits – Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
Understanding brain-wide neuronal dynamics and behavior requires a detailed map of the underlying circuit architecture. We built an interactive cellular-resolution atlas of the zebrafish brain, with a focus on the visual and visuomotor system, and generated from our dataset an inter-areal wiring diagram, which serves as ground truth for synapse-scale, electron microscopic reconstructions. We have... More >
Design Field Notes: Chris Hill and Prat Ganapathy
Lecture | October 29 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
About Design Field Notes:
Each informal talk in this pop-up series brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio to share ideas, projects, and practices.
About this talk:
Stephanie Chen is a design researcher based in San Francisco. The scope of her work has occasionally driven her mother to ask, "How do I explain what you do?!" The best answer is simply that she studies... More >
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Games of Love and Hate"
Seminar | October 29 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Co-Authored with Debraj Ray
Principles, Passion and Purpose:: Standing Up for the Rule of Law in a Turbulent Age
Lecture | October 29 | 4-6 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 105
Mike Feuer, Los Angeles City Attorney, https://www.lacityattorney.org/
Mike Feuer, Los Angeles City Attorney, will present the first annual Judge Harry Pregerson Lecture. At one of the most tumultuous times in the life of our legal system, Feuer will draw on examples from Judge Pregerson's life and career as he explores issues including the fragility of democracy and justice reform.
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Wave maps on (1+2)-dimensional curved spacetimes
Seminar | October 29 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Casey Jao, UCB
I will discuss recent joint work, with Cristian Gavrus and Daniel Tataru, in which we consider wave maps on a (1+2)-dimensional nonsmooth background. Our main result asserts that in this variable-coefficient context, the wave maps system is wellposed at almost-critical regularity.
Expendables For Whom?: Terry Crews, Phallicism, and the Erasure of Black Male Victims of Sexual Assault and Rape
Lecture | October 29 | 5-7 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315, Maude Fife
Tommy J. Curry, Professor, Texas A&M Philosophy
Department of English, Department of Ethnic Studies, Center for Race and Gender, Department of African American Studies
The sexual assault of Terry Crews by Adam Venit raises all sorts of questions about the nature of sexual violence and our reluctance to see Black men as victims of sexual assault in the United States. Despite a history of Black men and boys being raped by white men and women, there is no effort to connect the centuries long record of sexual violence against Black males to the sexual victimization... More >
Deformation Theory Seminar: $A_\infty $ and differential graded algebras
Seminar | October 29 | 5:10-6:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Meredith Shea, UC Berkeley
We will review the theory of $A_\infty $-algebras, their minimal models and differential graded realizations. We discuss the example of the Ext algebra which arises in Koszul duality.
SLAM: The Challenges and Adventures of Unconventional Leadership Roles
Seminar | October 29 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Prof. Geraldine (Geri) Richmond, Univ. of Oregon
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
Lecture | October 29 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Osher Theater, BAMPFA
Kim Stanley Robinson
Berkeley Center for New Media, CED Studio One
The Anthropocene is a name in a periodizing scheme, or in more than one periodizing scheme, so to understand it more fully we need first to discuss periodization itself. After that it may be possible to move on to considerations of what it would take to create a “good Anthropocene.”
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
Lecture | October 29 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Kim Stanley Robinson
Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media
Robinson reminds us that the Anthropocene is a name in a periodizing scheme, or in more than one periodizing scheme. He suggests that, to understand it more fully, we need first to discuss periodization itself. After that, Robinson considers whether it is possible to consider the conditions for creating a “good Anthropocene.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is... More >
Equal Pay 3.0: New Frontiers in Combatting the Wage Gap
Conference/Symposium | October 29 | 7-8:15 p.m. | Simon Hall, Warren Room (Law)
Civil Justice Research Initiative, Impact Fund, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Join us for a thought leadership conversation in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Impact Fund between four legal trailblazers in the vanguard of the movement for equal pay for women. This free event is presented in association with BerkeleyLaw and the Thelton E. Henderson Center.
Guest limit is 65. Please register for this free event via our EventBrite registration page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equal-pay-30-new-frontiers-in-combatting-the-wage-gap-tickets-50377540580
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Fall 2018 Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science
Lecture | October 30 – December 4, 2018 every Tuesday | 190 Doe Library
Deb Agarwal, Department Head, Data Science and Technology, Computational Research Division, LBNL; Rosemary Gillespie, Professor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management; Rachel Slaybaugh, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Kristina Hill, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design
The Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science, co-hosted by the The Berkeley Division of Data Sciences and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), return for the Fall 2018 series. Lectures feature Berkeley faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data revolution.
Organic Syntheses Seminar: The chemistry of high energy intermediates: from methodology to total synthesis
Seminar | October 30 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Nuno Maulide, Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna
BSA Leadership Stories: Career Changes at Cal
Meeting | October 30 | 12-1 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren 295
Alberto Ledesma, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity, Arts and Humanities; Elizabeth Wilcox, Sr. Consultant for Advising, Human Resources
Learn from campus leaders as they share their personal and professional experiences.
RSVP online by October 29.
Student Faculty Macro Lunch - "Peer Effects and Debt Accumulation: Evidence from Norwegian Household Data"
Presentation | October 30 | 12-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Magnus Gulbrandsen, Visiting Student Researcher / PhD Candidate
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 October 25.
Metropolis in Ruins. Berlin's Interval of Time, 1943-1947: Global Urban Humanities Fall 2018 Colloquium
Colloquium | October 30 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 170 Wurster Hall
"Metropolis in Ruins. Berlin's Interval of Time, 1943-1947"
Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Associate Professor of History
Tuesday, October 30, 12-1:30pm
Wurster 170
Part of the Global Urban Humanities Colloquium The City and Its People, Rhetoric 198-3 / ARCH 198-2, Rhetoric 244A / ARCH 298-2
With the modern metropolis emerges also the anticipation of urban ruination. However, what if the... More >
Positive Parenting (BEUHS332)
Workshop | October 30 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Erica Reischer, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach
Local psychologist, mom, and parent coach Dr. Erica Reischer leads this workshop for parents who want to learn proven parenting methods for shaping positive behavior and raising happy, secure and loving kids. More information about Dr. Reischer is available at www.DrEricaR.com.
Workshop topics include:
· The ABCs of positive parenting: Acceptance, Boundaries, Consistency
· 10 things great... More >
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.
Medical Culture in Action: Ethnographic Insights from Two Studies of Surgical Culture Change
Colloquium | October 30 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 1205 Berkeley Way West
Daniel Dohan
Integrating evidence-based best practices into everyday clinic culture is a longstanding challenge in healthcare improvement and health policy. I describe two projects to improve surgical care for frail older adults and examine how their implementation plays out at the micro-level of clinic culture. Frail older adults who undergo major surgery have high rates of complications, functional decline,... More >
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Design and Formatting (BETEC011): Betec011
Workshop | October 30 | 1-4 p.m. | 24 University Hall
Kathleen Valerio
Spreadsheet Basics: Learn how to navigate in and across spreadsheets. Use AutoFill to build spreadsheets and link them into quarterly reports with basic equations in Microsoft Excel.
Learning objectives:
* Insert and format data.
* Use AutoFill.
* Insert/delete hide and unhide rows and columns.
* Name, move, add and delete worksheets.
* Apply filters and sorts.
* Export files to Excel... More >
Seminar 237/281: Macro/International Seminar -"The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross"
Seminar | October 30 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Ludwig Straub, Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, Harvard University
TBD
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: Economic Data Engineering and Attention
Seminar | October 30 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Andrew Caplin, NYU
3-Manifold Seminar: Bass-Serre Theory and PSL(2,Qp)
Seminar | October 30 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Nic Brody, UC BERKELEY
We will begin by filling in some details from last time, and describe the p-adic tree in more detail. We'll briefly discuss buildings, complexes of groups, and cubulated groups, which can be viewed as generalizations of Bass-Serre theory. It is a consequence of Bass-Serre theory that finitely generated groups which act discretely on a locally finite tree have a finite index subgroup which is a... More >
Looking to the Past: Ontological (and Other) Encounters in the Andes
Presentation | October 30 | 3-5 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Dr. Catherine J. Allen, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at George Washington University
It is often said that “the past is present,” but to what extent is this true in a region like the Andes after centuries of invasion, upheaval, and cultural repression? Can a view from the present illuminate any aspects of the Andean past—and vice versa? In this lecture, Catherine Allen explores the ways in which ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and archaeological research in the Andes might inform... More >
International Student Immigration Updates
Information Session | October 30 | 3:30-5 p.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Join Berkeley International Office for an update on current immigration issues and changes for international students. 2018 has been another year of change in the world of international student advising, with a number of new policies and practices that impact our F-1 and J-1 students. BIO will go over hot topics in F-1/J-1 student visa status, travel, and employment. Attendees will also get a... More >
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Introduction to the mathematics of graphene
Seminar | October 30 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Maciej Zworski, UC Berkeley
We will consider the simplest model of graphene given by a hexagonal quantum graph and explain the appearance of the famous "Dirac points". All the relevant concepts, quantum graphs, density of states etc, will be explained from scratch. When the magnetic field is added interesting oscillations appear in physically observed quantities. Using semiclassical methods (with the strength of the... More >
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Structure of operators on $L^p$ and $l^p$
Seminar | October 30 | 3:45-5:45 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
March Boedihardjo, UCLA
I will present my recent results on operators on $L^p$ and $l^p$. These include (1) a characterization of the weak closure of ultrapowers of operators on $L^p$ and (2) $l^p$ versions of some results in the Brown-Douglas-Fillmore theory. Some applications will be shown: (1) ultrapowers of operators on $L^p$ have exactly 4 nontrivial invariant subspaces if the ultrafilter is selective (2) every... More >
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Hilbert scheme of a pair of linear spaces and Mori dream spaces
Seminar | October 30 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ritvik Ramkumar, UC Berkeley
The Grassmannian is a smooth moduli space with very rich geometry that parameterizes simple varieties, namely linear spaces. One can study a "natural" generalization, the component of a Hilbert scheme that parameterizes a pair of linear spaces in $\mathbb P^n$. In this talk we will describe a powerful rigidity result that allows us to completely control degenerations in this component. We will... More >
The Race for Talent - A Forum on International Students in America
Panel Discussion | October 30 | 4-5:30 p.m. | International House, Home Room
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Join us for our observations about the changing market for international graduate and undergraduate students, the impact of changing visa/immigration debates/policies, and the challenges international students face once they enroll in a US university.
Speakers:
Rahul Choudaha - Executive Vice President of Global Engagement, Research & Intelligence at StudyPortals and CSHE Research... More >
Harold S. Johnston Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Greenhouse gases and chemistry in cities
Seminar | October 30 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Ron Cohen, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Printing Soft Matter in Three Dimensions
Lecture | October 30 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Professor Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
3D printing enables one to rapidly design and fabricate materials in arbitrary shapes on demand. I will introduce the fundamental principles that underpin 3D printing methods pioneered by our group. I will then describe the design, composition, and rheological properties of functional, structural and biological inks that we have developed, which are vastly expanding the capabilities of 3D... More >
Documentary Screening: "Mai '68, un étrange printemps": The Odd Spring of May '68
Film - Documentary | October 30 | 4-7 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 4429 (Library of French Thought)
Institute of European Studies, Department of French, French Studies Program, UC Berkeley
Marking the 50th anniversary of May '68, this two-part documentary film offers firsthand accounts of those historic events from the individuals who were on the frontlines: politicians, law enforcement officers, and others who participated in the protests on the streets of Paris. The film shifts point of view from firsthand accounts to archival photographs, political posters and film footage,... More >
Bernard Moses Memorial Lectures featuring Wendy Brown: Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail: Markets and Morals Where Democracy Once Was
Lecture | October 30 | 4:10 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room
Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Chair Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Wendy Brown will present the Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, October 30, 2018 titled "Neoliberalism’s Scorpion Tail: Markets and Morals Where Democracy Once Was." The lecture is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Seminar 221, Industrial Organization: "How Does Competition Affect Innovation? Evidence from U.S. Antitrust Cases"
Seminar | October 30 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Hyo Kang, UC Berkeley
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Schottky Algorithms: Classical meets Tropical
Seminar | October 30 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Lynn Chua, UC Berkeley
We present a new perspective on the Schottky problem that links numerical computing with tropical geometry. The task is to decide whether a symmetric matrix defines a Jacobian, and, if so, to compute the curve and its canonical embedding. We offer solutions and their implementations in genus four, both classically and tropically. The locus of cographic matroids arises from tropicalizing the... More >
SCREENING SERIES: URBAN RIGHTS IN BRAZIL
Film - Series | October 30 | 5:30-8 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
Organized by Laura Belik, Ph.D. Student in Architecture
Schlumberger Limited Info-Session
Information Session | October 30 | 6-8 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
The Schlumberger Technology Innovation Center (STIC) is holding an infosession! We're hosting this event on campus for Cal undergraduate and graduate students alike who are interested to learn more about what we do, the full-time and internship opportunities we have, and to meet some of our team.
We’ll be bringing in software engineers and data scientists of various specializations to talk... More >
Changing Careers: Myths and Best Practices
Lecture | October 30 | 6:30-8 p.m. | UC Berkeley Extension (Golden Bear Center), room 202
Marty Nemko
You’ve decided it’s time for a career change. How big a change can you realistically make? What techniques work and which don't? Career Coach Marty Nemko will offer fresh, but proven, ideas to illuminate the career change process and help you focus your efforts. Which rewarding careers tend to be more open to career changers? How can you prepare for your new career when you don’t have the time... More >
Diwali Celebration
Special Event | October 30 | 6:45-8:45 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.)
Come enjoy a Diwali program hosted by BAPS Campus Fellowship at UC Berkeley! Come enjoy our guest speakers, musical performances, and a traditional Indian dinner at the end of the program!
If you plan on coming, please RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uc-berkeley-tickets-51108390572
RSVP online by October 30.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Graduate Student Lounge
Miscellaneous | April 25 – December 12, 2018 every Wednesday | Anthony Hall
Graduate Students! Take advantage of the Graduate Student Lounge at Anthony Hall. Study, grade papers, meet with other grad students.
Graduate Students only! However, Anthony Hall can be made available to the entire campus and community for reservations at other times.
Resources Roundtable: Innovation in Waste Management
Conference/Symposium | October 31 | 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Anna Head Alumnae Hall (2537 Haste St.)
Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative
BERC is hosting a one-day symposium of Bay Area innovators in the waste and materials management space for sharing of ideas and best practices. This event will bring together entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, academics and hands-on practitioners in and around Berkeley to learn from each other and share their work. In addition to selected speakers, we’ll be hosting a panel session of... More >
Opportunities and challenges of high-field fMRI for neuroscience applications
Colloquium | October 31 | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | 1104 Berkeley Way West
Kendrick Kay, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
In this talk, Dr. Kendrick Kay will describe two recent projects that exploit functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at ultra-high magnetic field strength (7 Tesla). The first project consisted of whole-brain fMRI retinotopic mapping in 181 healthy adults, as part of the Human Connectome Project (T2*-weighted gradient-echo EPI, 1.6-mm isotropic resolution, 1-s TR, 85 slices, multiband... More >
UCB Startup Fair
Career Fair | October 31 | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
The UCB Startup Fair is back again!
Student-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.
REGISTER HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/d5AtdQ1Sqjk2EPE32
Check out... More >
Early Life Environment and Later Life Cognition, Dementia Onset, and Neuropathology: A Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | October 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Sarah Tom, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia 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.
Roya Pakzad on "AI and Human Rights in the Digital Age": CITRIS Research Exchange
Conference/Symposium | October 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
About the speaker:
Roya Pakzad serves as a Research Associate and Project Leader in Technology and Human Rights at Stanford University’s Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi). She also works with Stanford's program in Iranian Studies on the role of information and communication technologies in human rights in Iran.
Roya has worked on initiatives relating to everything from the role of... More >
Plant and Microbial Biology Seminar: "Exploiting natural diversity in plant innate immunity to protect against bacterial pathogens"
Seminar | October 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Jennifer Lewis, UC Berkeley
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR - Juliana Vianna: Penguin evolution across the southern ocean: from population genetics structure, adaptation to speciation
Seminar | October 31 | 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 >
Noon Concert: UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Performing Arts - Music | October 31 | 12 p.m. | Hertz Concert Hall
David Milnes, music director
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 5
Bethany Lee, soloist
Clara Olivares - Blue Spine
Continuing its 66th season, the Noon Concert series features the Music Department’s varied and diverse performance activities. Inaugurated in 1953, these concerts are very popular and well attended by those on campus and in the wider community. Traditionally on Wednesdays and... More >
SPH Potluck
Social Event | October 31 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 150 University Hall
Annual SPH Potluck w/ best dish contest.
Special Ingredient: Citrus
Return of the Basket: On Art and Environment
Lecture | October 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 2251 College (Archaeological Research Facility)
Daniel Niles, Associate Professor, Geography, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto)
Archaeological Research Facility
Baskets are the original bags. They are among humankind’s earliest technologies, speaking especially to distant human interaction with plants. For as long as it is possible to measure, people everywhere made and used baskets in order to make life easier. In the modern imaginary, however, basketry is common, perhaps too common, and so tightly linked to pre-industrial life that it appears not just... More >
Statistical and machine learning challenges from protein engineering to genetics
Seminar | October 31 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Jennifer Listgarten, University of California, Berkeley
Molecular biology, genetics, and protein engineering have been slowly morphing into large-scale, data-driven sciences that can leverage machine learning and applied statistics. My talk will be a quick tour of several projects at this intersection. I will start off describing some new work toward machine-learning based protein engineering (and more general design problems) that can be viewed as a... More >
Precolonial States and Precolonial Cultures: Concept Formation and Misinformation the Historical Renaissance
Colloquium | October 31 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Martha Wilfahrt, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Scholars in political science and development economics are increasingly identifying historical, ‘root causes’ of contemporary development outcomes. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this has renewed a particular interest in the precolonial past, with a series of prominent papers identifying precolonial 'centralization' as a key driver of differences in contemporary development levels both across and within... More >
Martha Wilfahrt
Smadar Ben-Natan, "Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories"
Lecture | October 31 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The 1967 Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories produced a boomerang effect on Palestinian citizens within the 1948 borders, re-framing them as citizen-enemies. While the Israeli legal regime of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is extensively researched, this study extends its focus to the interrelations between the different parts comprising the Israeli “imperial formation.” Looking into... More >
Haas Innovation Seminar: Early Work Experience and Developing Engineering Talent: Evidence From Randomized Assignment to “experiential” Education
Seminar | October 31 | 12:30-2 p.m. | C320 Cheit Hall
Matt Marx, Boston University
Forest Bathing with Hana Lee Goldin
Workshop | October 31 | 1-3:30 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden | Canceled
Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin Yoku, Forest Bathing has demonstrated benefits for stress reduction and cognitive function. Forest Bathing also offers us the opportunity to deepen our relationship with the natural world. By slowing down and opening up our senses, we may begin to notice incredible things that may have eluded us for our whole lives.
$40 / $35 UCBG Members and UC students, faculty and staff
CANCELLED.
Using Machine Learning to Understand Health Care Systems
Lecture | October 31 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Sendhil Mullainathan
Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how machine learning can improve our understanding of the health system itself.
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Monopole Floer homology and exact triangles
Seminar | October 31 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Francesco Lin, Princeton University
Monopole Floer homology is an invariant of three-manifolds obtained by studying the Seiberg-Witten equations. After discussing its definition and basic properties, we will focus on its behavior under Dehn surgery; in particular we will describe the surgery exact triangle, and how it can be useful both for computations and topological applications.
Weekly Coffee Break
Social Event | September 12 – December 5, 2018 every Wednesday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Cafe International House
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Coffee Break is a weekly opportunity for UC Berkeley global students to meet and engage with one another in a relaxing environment. It’s a chance to enjoy free coffee, share stories about your experiences on campus, and get to know Berkeley International Office advisors. All UCB students are invited. Students are free to talk about anything, but we'll also have weekly discussion topics to... More >
Crisis in the Making: The Implications of US Interventions in Venezuela
Lecture | October 31 | 3-5 p.m. | The Latinx Research Center
2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Steven Ellner, Professor, Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
Join us for this historic speaking tour by Dr. Steve Ellner, the preeminent scholar in the English language on political, economic histories of Venezuela to understand the complexities of the current situation in Venezuela and its effects both inside and outside the country.
Rigidity and tolerance for perturbed lattices
Seminar | October 31 | 3-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Consider a perturbed lattice {v+Y_v} obtained by adding IID d-dimensional Gaussian variables {Y_v} to the lattice points in Z^d.
Suppose that one point, say Y_0, is removed from this perturbed lattice; is it possible for an observer, who sees just the remaining points, to detect that a point is missing?
Hour of the Wolf
Film - Feature | October 31 | 3:10-4:40 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Hour of the Wolf intertwines supernatural mysteries with the no less mysterious torments of creativity. Alma (Liv Ullmann) tells of her life on a remote island with her artist husband (Max von Sydow), who has disappeared, leaving only his diary. The strange occurrences she relates invoke the waking nightmares of gothic horror, yet in creating this eerie tale, Bergman drew on his own experiences... More >
Number Theory Seminar: Fixed ponts of $L\eta $
Seminar | October 31 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Koji Shimizu, UC Berkeley
We will discuss the fixed points of $L\eta $.
Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: The Land Sharks are on the Squawk Box with Michael Stonebraker
Colloquium | October 31 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Michael Stonebraker, M.I.T.
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
This Turing Award talk intermixes a bicycle ride across America during the summer of 1988 with the design, construction and commercialization of Postgres during the late 80’s and early ‘90’s. Striking parallels are observed, leading to a discussion of what it takes to build a new DBMS. Also, indicated are the roles that perseverance and serendipity played in both endeavors.
Bio:
Michael... More >
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How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | October 31 | 4-5 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Leah Carroll, Haas Scholars Program Manager/Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships
Office of Undergraduate Research
If you need to write a grant proposal, this workshop is for you! You'll get a headstart on defining your research question, developing a lit review and project plan, presenting your qualifications, and creating a realistic budget.
The workshop is open to all UC Berkeley students (undergraduate, graduate, and visiting scholars) regardless of academic discipline. It will be especially useful for... More >
ERG Colloquium: Rob Jackson: Natural and Anthropogenic Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Methane
Colloquium | October 31 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Rob Jackson, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Provostial Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Professor Jackson will discuss sources of methane and carbon dioxide and opportunities to reduce them.
MSW Info Session
Information Session | October 31 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 5 Haviland Hall
Sara McCarthy, Graduate Admissions Advisor, School of Social Welfare; Cassandra Castillo, Student Services Advisor, School of Social Welfare
These group admissions advising sessions are designed to provide an overview of the admissions process and degree requirements of the MSW program. All MSW Admissions Information Sessions are held in the School of Social Welfare, located in Haviland Hall (Room 5).
GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility
Lecture | October 31 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 202 South Hall
Jeff Jonas
The EUâs new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): The Seiberg-Witten equations and the length spectrum of hyperbolic three-manifolds
Seminar | October 31 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
Francesco Lin, Princeton University
This is joint work with Michael Lipnowski. We exhibit the first examples of hyperbolic three-manifolds for which the Seiberg-Witten equations do not admit any irreducible solution. Our approach relies on hyperbolic geometry in an essential way; it combines an explicit upper bound for the first eigenvalue on coexact 1-forms \(\lambda∗\) on rational homology spheres which admit irreducible... More >
Detecting Discrimination: What Eddie Murphy Teaches Us about Theory and Method
Special Event | October 31 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 210 South Hall
Issa Kohler-Hausmann
Issa Kohler-Hausmann studies the methodological and theoretical issues in stating and proving discrimination claims.
Utopia/Dystopia: Imagining the Future: An On the Same Page panel
Panel Discussion | October 31 | 4:30-6 p.m. | Wheeler Hall, 315 (Maude Fife)
Holly Doremus, Professor, Berkeley Law; Annalee Newitz, Author, Editor, Journalist; Ellen Rigsby, Professor, Communications Department, St. Mary's College
Katherine Snyder, Professor, UCB English Department
Join us for a moderated discussion of utopian and dystopian views of the future, from an array of disciplinary perspectives.
Free and open to all on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Title: Emotion and cognition in late life: Different paths, different vulnerabilities
Colloquium | October 31 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | Berkeley Way West
Professor Robert Levenson, Berkeley Psychology
In this talk I will present theory and research on the ways that emotional functioning changes with age. Comparisons will be made with the well-established age-related declines that characterize cognitive and physical aging. Implications for deepening our understanding of the relationships between cognition and emotion in brain and behavior will be considered.
Toastmasters on Campus Club: Learn public speaking
Meeting | July 2, 2014 – December 18, 2019 every Wednesday with exceptions | 6:15-7:30 p.m. | 3106 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.
Afterimage: EMPTY METAL
Film - Feature | October 31 | 7-8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s first feature as codirectors, Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy. The lives of several people, each inhabiting extreme poles of American social and political consciousness, weave together as each attempts to achieve some kind of forward motion, sometimes in... More >
