Academic
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Five Tables of XXS (Extra Extra Small) Art
Presentation | January 4 | 4-7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Friday, January 5, 2018
Andean Studies Conference, Day 1: Institute for Andean Studies
Conference/Symposium | January 5 | 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | January 5 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Andean Studies Conference, Day 2: Institute for Andean Studies
Conference/Symposium | January 6 | 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. | 160 Kroeber Hall
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Genetically encoding new chemistries to read and write eukaryotic biology
Seminar | January 9 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Introduction to Botanical Art Class with Catherine Watters
Workshop | January 11 – 12, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
From STEM to STEAM: Exploring E&O Opportunities with BAMPFA
Presentation | January 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
From STEM to STEAM: Exploring E&O Opportunities with BAMPFA
Presentation | January 11 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum, 2155 Center Street
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | January 11 | 1:30-3:30 p.m. | 182 Dwinelle Hall | Note change in location
Friday, January 12, 2018
10th Annual CEND Symposium: Confronting Persistent Epidemics
Conference/Symposium | January 12 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center
Introduction to Botanical Art Class with Catherine Watters
Workshop | January 11 – 12, 2018 every day | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
MENA Salon: Protests in Iran
Workshop | January 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Saturday, January 13, 2018
FAMILY PROGRAM: Trees and Birds
Workshop | January 13 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Monday, January 15, 2018
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Concentration of eigenfunctions: Averages and Sup-norms
Seminar | January 15 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Evolution of Gliding in Lizards: Interview with Erik Sathe, Department of Integrative Biology
Presentation | January 16 | 9-9:30 a.m. | Barrows Hall, Radio broadcast, ON-AIR ONLY, 90.7 FM
New biological findings which were revealed by imaging studies based on chemical probes
Seminar | January 16 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
CRISPR Critters: Policy Choices for Non-Human Applications of Genome Editing
Seminar | January 16 | 12-1 p.m. | 115 Energy Biosciences Building
Development Lunch: "Socio-Economic Status and Attention Capture" and "Friend-Based Targeting"
Seminar | January 16 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: Organizational meeting
Seminar | January 16 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
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
Adsorption, Contact, and Adhesion at Elastic and Capillary Interfaces
Seminar | January 16 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Thematic Seminar: Number Theory: Random Groups from Generators and Relations
Seminar | January 16 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Davis Projects for Peace $10K award application deadline: 10k Grant Award Opportunity
Deadline | January 16 | 5 p.m. | International House
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
No Bioengineering Seminar today
Seminar | January 17 | Stanley Hall
i4Y Child Marriage and Youth Empowerment Group Speaker Series: Balancing Reproductive Rights and Protections from Child Marriage: Insights from developmental science
Seminar | January 17 | 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 401 University Hall
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Jeffrey Kelly "Enroute migrant birds do not surf a green wave across the US"
Seminar | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library
[CANCELED] Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "The Perfect Defense: Bacterial Persister Cell"
Seminar | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
Deportation Discretion: Tiered Influence, Minority Threat, and ‘Secure Communities’ Deportations: Juan Pedroza M.P.A, Stanford University
Colloquium | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop
Workshop | January 17 | 12-1 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Aversion to Emotional Insurance: Costly Reluctance to Hedge Desired Outcomes
Colloquium | January 17 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Last Stands? Art, Memory, and Public Space
Panel Discussion | January 17 | 1-2:30 p.m. | Downtown Oakland Senior Center
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Infinitely divisible distributions in free probability
Seminar | January 17 | 2-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): Quasi-isometries: What are they and why do we care?
Seminar | January 17 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Number Theory Seminar: The cohomology of local Shimura varieties
Seminar | January 17 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Electrolyte engineering toward a high-capacity, reversible lithium-oxygen battery/The Sudden Death Phenomena in Na-O2 Batteries
Colloquium | January 17 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Applied Math Seminar: A Variational Functional in Simulations of Statistical Mechanics
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall | Note change in location
From stopping times to “spotting” times : a new framework for multiple testing
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Boundaries of groups
Seminar | January 17 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
ERG Colloquium: Ted Parson: Climate Engineering: Benefits, Risks, Governance Challenges
Colloquium | January 17 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Job Market Seminar: "Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals"
Seminar | January 17 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Curators’ Talk: Lawrence Rinder and Kathy Geritz on Way Bay
Panel Discussion | January 18 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Concrete examples of trend analyses and forward-looking modelling in Swiss Re's underwriting
Seminar | January 18 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Job Market Seminar: "Bootstrap Inference for Propensity Score Matching"
Seminar | January 18 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall | Note change in time
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
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | January 18 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Thematic Seminar: Geometry: New Techniques for Zimmer's Conjecture
Seminar | January 18 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Employer Panel: How to Connect with Recruiters at Career Fairs for International Students
Career Fair | January 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Career Center (2440 Bancroft Way), Blue and Gold Room
Friday, January 19, 2018
Qigong with Director Eric Siegel
Workshop | January 19 | 10-11 a.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Getting Started in Undergraduate Research and Finding a Mentor Workshop
Workshop | January 19 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Cryo-EM Visualization of Microtubules to Understand Their Regulated Dynamics: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | January 19 | 1-2 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
MENA Salon: Austerity and Unrest in Tunisia
Workshop | January 19 | 3-4 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop
Workshop | January 19 | 3-4 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Making Web Archiving Work for Streaming Media: Archiving the Websites of Contemporary Young Composers
Seminar | January 19 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Complex multiplication, from Abel to Zagier
Colloquium | January 19 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall | Note change in date, time, and location
Imagining Sculpture in China
Colloquium | January 19 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Metal-Organic Framework Liquids, Gels and Glasses
Seminar | January 19 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Job Market Seminar: "A Sieve-SMM Estimator for Dynamic Models"
Seminar | January 19 | 4:10-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Thematic Seminar: Probability Theory: Rare Behavior in Models of Random Geometry
Seminar | January 19 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Weekend Workshop 2017-2018: Early Literacy
Workshop | January 20 | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Tolman Hall
Zapotec Natural Dye Workshop: with Porfirio Gutiérrez
Workshop | January 20 | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. | Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Lichen Dye Workshop
Workshop | January 21 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | UC Botanical Garden
Monday, January 22, 2018
Integration of guided experiential skill application into attention regulation training yields generalized improvements in cognitive functioning
Seminar | January 22 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Combinatorics Seminar: Combinatorics of the Selberg integral
Seminar | January 22 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Job Market Seminar
Seminar | January 22 | 12:30-2 p.m. | C125 Haas School of Business
Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance
Colloquium | January 22 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 820 Barrows Hall
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Boolean probability basics
Seminar | January 22 | 2-4 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Differential Geometry Seminar: A polyhedron comparison theorem for 3-manifolds with positive scalar curvature
Seminar | January 22 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Shuttle Catalysis – a Conceptual Blueprint for Reversible Functional Group Transfer
Seminar | January 22 | 3-4 p.m. | 775 Tan Hall
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: The Brauer group of some algebraic stacks
Seminar | January 22 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall | Note change in date
Understanding rare events in models of statistical mechanics
Seminar | January 22 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Panel Discussion Honoring San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee
Panel Discussion | January 22 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 105
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: No Meeting
Seminar | January 22 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Understanding rare events in models of statistical mechanics
Seminar | January 22 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Thematic Seminar: Numerical Methods: Machine Learning at Facebook
Seminar | January 22 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | January 23 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 177 Stanley Hall
Iron(III)-Catalyzed Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis and Oxygen Atom Transfer
Seminar | January 23 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
BSAC Technology Seminar - Single Crystal Diamond as a Material for Micro- and Nanosystems
Seminar | January 23 | 12-1 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Development Lunch: "An egg for an egg and a bean for a bean? How production diversity determines dietary diversity of smallholder farmers in rural India" and "How do gendered perceptions of tasks affect labor market outcomes?"
Seminar | January 23 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Women on Africa's constitutional and supreme courts: When, where, and why?
Colloquium | January 23 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: Knottedness and Thurston norm in NP
Seminar | January 23 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Seminar 218, Psychology and Economics: "The Biases of Others: Projection Equilibrium in an Agency Setting"
Seminar | January 23 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
How to Write a Research Proposal Workshop
Workshop | January 23 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
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
RNA/Protein Liquids: Lighting up intracellular phase space
Seminar | January 23 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
Design Field Notes: Sara Cinnamon
Seminar | January 23 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Organization, Hydration, Ion Speciation, and Inherent Electric Fields at Water Surfaces
Seminar | January 23 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall
Thematic Seminar: Applied Mathematics: Nonlinear Fluid-Structure Interaction with Fiber-Reinforced Soft Composites: A Unified Mathematical Framework for Mathematical Analysis and Computation
Seminar | January 23 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Organizational Meeting
Seminar | January 23 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Understanding Secondary Organic Aerosol Thermodynamics, Mixing State and Phase with Models, Mimics, and Microfluidics
Seminar | January 24 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 575 McCone Hall
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Mohamed Noor "Recombination rate influences adaptation and speciation: Studies in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group"
Seminar | January 24 | 12-1 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 3101 Grinnell-Miller Library
Econ 235, Financial Economics: Job Market Seminar
Seminar | January 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Plant and Microbial Biology Plant Seminar: "Regulation of vitamin 6 homeostasis "
Seminar | January 24 | 12-1 p.m. | 101 Barker Hall
“Revealing the Dynamic Roles of Splicing and Translation in Gene Regulation”
Seminar | January 24 | 12-1 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Drivers of infectious disease dynamics: Quantifying the impact of demography and climate: Ayesha Mahmud PhD
Colloquium | January 24 | 12-1 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
Towards artificial general intelligence: Brain-inspired CAPTCHA breaking and Atari playing
Seminar | January 24 | 12-1 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
Habits: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (BEUHS052)
Workshop | January 24 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Gender and Race Gatekeeping
Colloquium | January 24 | 12:10-1:15 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Pronunciation Tips Workshop
Workshop | January 24 | 1-2 p.m. | International House, Auditorium
Topology Seminar (Introductory Talk): An introduction to fibered 3-manifolds and the Thurston norm
Seminar | January 24 | 2-3 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Optically probing the neural basis of perception
Seminar | January 24 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building
ERG Colloquium: Diego Ponce De Leon Barido: Demand-side, User-centered, Sustainable Decarbonization in Resource Constrained Environments
Colloquium | January 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
Applied Math Seminar: Using spacetime tents to solve hyperbolic systems
Seminar | January 24 | 4-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Topology Seminar (Main Talk): Taut branched surfaces which span fibered faces
Seminar | January 24 | 4-5 p.m. | 3 Evans Hall
EECS Colloquium: Meta Learning and Self Play
Colloquium | January 24 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Ice-nine and the Origins of Frank-Kasper and Quasicrystal Phases in Diblock Copolymer Melts
Colloquium | January 24 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
Thematic Seminar: Partial Differential Equations: On the Strong Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in General Relativity
Seminar | January 24 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
The Business of Disaster: Colonial and Neoliberal Governance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico
Panel Discussion | January 24 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 221 Kroeber Hall
Workshop: Introduction to Deep Learning
Workshop | January 24 | 8-10 p.m. | 306 Soda Hall
