Academic
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Expanders and Extractors
Workshop | January 30 – February 3, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
SP2017 Project Pengyou Policy Case Competition
Presentation | February 1 | 7 Evans Hall
2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series: The Latest Research on Sit-Stand Workstations with Dr. Carisa Harris-Adamson
Seminar | February 1 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | 2017 COEH-CE Webinar Series
Matrix Computations and Scientific Computing Seminar: Finite precision stability analysis of randomized QR factorization with column pivoting
Seminar | February 1 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 380 Soda Hall
From body to brain: control of autonomic physiology by the sensory vagus nerve
Seminar | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
BioE Seminar: “Engineering of MRI to address evolving needs in cardiovascular research and clinical practice”
Seminar | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Exploring Career Interests with the Strong Interest Inventory (BECAR101)
Workshop | February 1 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services
MVZ LUNCH SEMINAR: Miriam Zelditch and Don Swiderski "Adaptive and nonadaptive radiations of squirrels"
Seminar | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Introducing UCNets, Wave 1: Drawing on Family and Being Drawn on by Family: Demography Brown Bag Talk
Colloquium | February 1 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 2232 Piedmont, Seminar Room
The Future of the Public University: Christopher Newfield, in Conversation with Carol Christ
Panel Discussion | February 1 | 2-4 p.m. | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Human Brain Imaging with fMRI
Colloquium | February 1 | 3 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Segmenting, Connecting, and Recalling Events
Seminar | February 1 | 3-4 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Up-down Markov chains on partitions and their diffusion analogs
Seminar | February 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Applied Math Seminar: Coarse grained density functional theory for the study of defects in crystalline materials
Seminar | February 1 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Developing new microfluidic technologies to probe how proteins find their biophysical soul mates
Seminar | February 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 114 Morgan Hall
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. David Baker, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
Seminar | February 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Large, Sparse Optimal Matching in an Observational Study of Surgical Outcomes
Seminar | February 1 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
EECS Colloquium: The Mechanical Side of AI
Colloquium | February 1 | 4-5 p.m. | Soda Hall, 306 (HP Auditorium)
Theorizing Black Europe; Strident Imperialists, Peripheral Colonial Beneficiaries and the contemporary politics of immigration and citizenship
Colloquium | February 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Michaelangelo Tabone
Colloquium | February 1 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 126 Barrows Hall
GSAC Seminar: "A Few Things Cognitive Science Tells Us About Effective Teaching”
Colloquium | February 1 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Tan Hall
East Bay Science Cafe: Mass Extinctions: Learning from the fossil record
Presentation | February 1 | 7 p.m. | Restaurant Valparaiso
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Expanders and Extractors
Workshop | January 30 – February 3, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) School District Leadership Seminar
Workshop | February 2 | 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. | 150 Lawrence Hall of Science
RADPD - Foundational - F3 Customer Service for the RA
Course | February 2 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | University Hall, Room 24
PMB Seminar : "Dare to be different- regulators and mechanisms for asymmetric cell division in plants"
Seminar | February 2 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Energy Biosciences Building, EBB First Floor Conference Room
Fireside Chat with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia Chief Storyteller: Peterson/Dean's Speaker Series
Panel Discussion | February 2 | 12:15-1:30 p.m. | Haas School of Business, Wells Fargo Room (C420)
Swarm - Terraswarm Seminar: Rick McGeer: The Matrix: A Field Guide to the Next Internet
Seminar | February 2 | 12:30-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, 490 Cory
IB SEMINAR: Animal speciation from the microbe’s vantage point
Seminar | February 2 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
DAG seminar: DG categories
Seminar | February 2 | 1-2 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Seminar 251, Labor:
Seminar | February 2 | 2-4 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Functional Nanomaterials from Self-Assembly
Seminar | February 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 348 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Wired for touch: the neurons and circuits of the somatosensory system
Seminar | February 2 | 4-5 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory
Colloquium | February 2 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis: "TBA"
Seminar | February 2 | 4:10-6 p.m. | Haas School of Business, C325 Cheit Hall
QB3 Postdoc Seminar: Role of phosphoinositides and individual subunits in the assembly state, and localization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae TORC2 complex
Seminar | February 2 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 621 Stanley Hall
Radical Acts: A Dialogue on the Aesthetic and Political Histories of Resistance: The Graduate Speaker Series
Panel Discussion | February 2 | 5-7 p.m. | Durham Studio Theater (Dwinelle Hall)
Applied Algebra Seminar: Bivariate Real Stability Testing
Seminar | February 2 | 5:15-6:15 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Friday, February 3, 2017
43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Conference/Symposium | February 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Dwinelle Hall
Expanders and Extractors
Workshop | January 30 – February 3, 2017 every day | Calvin Laboratory (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing)
Essig Brunch: Dr. Javier Ceja Navarro, Lawrence Berkeley Lab: Arthropod-microbiome interactions and their role in the host’s environmental adaptation
Seminar | February 3 | 10-11 a.m. | 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building
Complementary Semantic Systems
Seminar | February 3 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Social Networking for Power Users (BECAR306)
Workshop | February 3 | 12-1 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services
Labor Lunch Seminar: "Firms and the Racial Wage Gap: Evidence from Brazil"
Seminar | February 3 | 12-1 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Solid State Technology and Devices Seminar: “Phonon Lasing” as a Mechanism for Velocity Saturation in GaN HEMT
Seminar | February 3 | 1-2 p.m. | Cory Hall, 521 - The Hogan Room
Environmental Narratives in Mongolian Sound Worlds
Conference/Symposium | February 3 | 1-6:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Data, Science, and the Future of Democracy
Conference/Symposium | February 3 | 1-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library
Dark Matter Detection with Precision Instrumentation: Nano Seminar Series
Seminar | February 3 | 2-3 p.m. | 390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Entropic Effects on Dislocation Nucleation
Seminar | February 3 | 2-4 p.m. | 775B Tan Hall
Student Probability/PDE Seminar: Flows for Hamiltonian ODE with Randomness
Seminar | February 3 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Environmental Engineering Seminar
Seminar | February 3 | 3-4 p.m. | 406 Davis Hall
MENA Salon
Workshop | February 3 – May 5, 2017 every Friday with exceptions | 3-4 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 340, Sultan Conference Room
Where Does the Study of Information Lead?
Seminar | February 3 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 107 South Hall
Approaching Challenges in Physics with Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
Seminar | February 3 | 4-5 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Music Studies Colloquia: Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University), "Primordial Microphonics"
Colloquium | February 3 | 4:30 p.m. | 125 Morrison Hall
Saturday, February 4, 2017
43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Conference/Symposium | February 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Dwinelle Hall
Foundations 1: World Languages and Common Core Literacy: Speaking and Listening
Workshop | February 4 | 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Dwinelle Hall, 33 (C level)
Mongolian Throat-Singing (Khöömii)Workshop
Workshop | February 4 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies, 1995 University Avenue, Suite 510
Critter Corner
Workshop | December 31, 2016 – May 27, 2017 every Saturday | 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. | Lawrence Hall of Science, Niche Classroom
Sunday, February 5, 2017
43rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Conference/Symposium | February 3 – 5, 2017 every day | Dwinelle Hall
Monday, February 6, 2017
Seminar 271, Development: Mobile-izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan
Seminar | February 6 | 648 Evans Hall
EHS 201 Biosafety in Laboratories
Course | February 6 | 9:30-11:30 a.m. | 115 Energy Biosciences Building | Note change in location
EH&S 403 Training Session
Course | February 6 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | 370 University Hall
Causal framing supports young children’s analogical reasoning
Colloquium | February 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Innovative Thinking in the Development of Seismic Design Concepts: SEMM Seminar
Seminar | February 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
The Pink Tide and Ebb: Assessing the Left in Latin America: With Jeffrey R. Webber and Alejandro Velasco
Conference/Symposium | February 6 | 12-2 p.m. | Barrows Hall, Social Science Matrix Conference Room, 8th Floor
Cryo-EM structures of the APC/C and mechanisms of its regulation in the cell cycle
Seminar | February 6 | 12-1 p.m. | 125 Li Ka Shing Center
Optical Tools for Unraveling Whole-brain Neuronal Circuit Dynamics Underlying Behavior: From Retina to the Cortex
Seminar | February 6 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Breastfeeding Your Baby/Returning to Work or School (BEUHS602)
Workshop | February 6 | 1-4:15 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Seminar 231, Public Finance: "Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts.
Seminar | February 6 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
String-Math Seminar: Khovanov-Rozansky homology and Hilbert schemes
Seminar | February 6 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Using Text as Data Methods to Discover, Measure, and Explain
Colloquium | February 6 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 402 Barrows Hall
Seminar 211, Economic History: “France and European Monetary Integration 1968-1984”
Seminar | February 6 | 2-3:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Strong cosmic censorship in spherical symmetry for two-ended asymptotically flat data
Seminar | February 6 | 2:40-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Human Brain Imaging with fMRI
Colloquium | February 6 | 3 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
BLISS Seminar: Information-theoretic tradeoffs in control
Seminar | February 6 | 3-4 p.m. | 400 Cory Hall
Claudio Maccone (INAF): SETI Prospects Worldwide
Seminar | February 6 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 131 Campbell Hall
Marcel Nutz - Bubbles, Shorting and Supply in Speculative Markets
Seminar | February 6 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Computational models of vision: From early vision to deep convolutional neural networks
Seminar | February 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 560 Evans Hall
From Mass Science to Participatory Action Research: Maoist Legacies in Contemporary Chinese Knowledge Production
Colloquium | February 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
RNA methylation in gene expression regulation
Seminar | February 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
IB SEMINAR: Algorithms and implementation of predictive control in behavior
Seminar | February 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Seminar 208, Microeconomics Theory: "Reasonable Doubt Revisited"
Seminar | February 6 | 4-6 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Literary Success and the Russian Internet: How Online Publics Shape Contemporary Poetics
Colloquium | February 6 | 4-6 p.m. | B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Tannakian reconstruction
Seminar | February 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Bayesian Covariance Estimation with Applications in High-throughput Biology
Seminar | February 6 | 4-5 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Pointwise Bounds for Steklov Eigenfunctions
Seminar | February 6 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
[Physics Colloquium] Adventures in Urban Informatics
Seminar | February 6 | 4:15-5 p.m. | LeConte Hall, Lecture Hall 1
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation
Colloquium | February 6 | 4:30-6 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Cities in the Age of Trump—A Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion | February 6 | 7-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Asphalt Pavement Materials, Design, Construction and Maintenance
Workshop | February 7 – 9, 2017 every day | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. | Courtyard Marriott Monrovia, Monterey Room
Caltime KRONOS 8 – Time Keeper Training
Course | February 7 | 9 a.m.-12 p.m. | 241 CSS
Targeting redox dependencies in pancreatic cancer
Seminar | February 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
UCMP Fossil Coffee: Lisa Maher - Anthropology, Berkeley: Risk, Reliability and Resilience: Late Quaternary Refugia, Aggregations and Palaeoenvironments in the Prehistory of the Azraq Basin, Eastern Jordan
Seminar | February 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Valley Life Sciences Building, 1101 (UCMP Fishbowl)
PMB Seminar : "Plant plasmodesmata at the intersection of bacterial pathogenesis and plant immunity"
Seminar | February 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Energy Biosciences Building, EBB First Floor Conference Room
Seminar 217, Risk Management: Simple Random Sampling: Not So Simple
Seminar | February 7 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
The Melvin Calvin Lecture in Organic Chemistry: Bioinspired Asymmetric Catalysis with Peptides and Other Small Molecules
Seminar | February 7 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
The Berkeley Network Webinar Series: How to Land Your Dream Job
Seminar | February 7 | 12-1 p.m. | Online
BSAC Technology Seminar - A Novel Approach for High Efficient Electrostatic Micro/Nano Transducers
Seminar | February 7 | 12-1 p.m. | 490 Cory Hall
Democracy-Promotion in Côte d'Ivoire: Citizen Perceptions of Local NGOs
Colloquium | February 7 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall
Development Lunch:"Quantifying the Crisis of Cooking: Sensors and Analytics to Measure Cookstoves' Impacts"
Seminar | February 7 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Caltime KRONOS 8 – Time Keeper Training
Course | February 7 | 1-4 p.m. | 241 CSS
The Educational Backgrounds of American Business and Government Leaders: Inter-Industry Variation in the Recruitment of Executives
Colloquium | February 7 | 3-4 p.m. | Evans Hall, 768 Library Evans Hall (newly renovated)
How to Write a Social Science and Humanities Research Proposal
Workshop | February 7 | 3-4 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall
Psychology Colloquium
Colloquium | February 7 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Tolman Hall, Beach Room 3105 Tolman
Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): A bilinear Strichartz estimate on irrational tori.
Seminar | February 7 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
3-Manifold Seminar: Colorings of graphs
Seminar | February 7 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: Double ramification cycles and tautological relations
Seminar | February 7 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Design Field Notes: Per Selvaag
Seminar | February 7 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
An outsized climate effect for organic peroxy radical chemistry
Seminar | February 7 | 4-5 p.m. | Pitzer Auditorium, 120 Latimer Hall
Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: Hodge Theory on Matroids
Seminar | February 7 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Rejuvenation Biotechnology: Why Age Will No Longer Mean Aging
Seminar | February 7 | 5-6:30 p.m. | UC Berkeley Campus
EPMS Weekly Seminar
Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall
Sustain U: Green Up Your Life
Course | January 31 – April 25, 2017 every Tuesday with exceptions | 6:30-8 p.m. | 228 Dwinelle Hall
