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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium

Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall

College of Environmental Design

FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.

2017 CJS-JSPS International Symposium: Drive for the Nobel Prize

Conference/Symposium | October 31 | 9:45 a.m.-5 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica; Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley; Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo

Join us for this exciting two-day symposium featuring public talks by Nobel Laureates Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986),
Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), and Taka'aki Kajita (Physics, 2015), as well as several exciting panels discussing the Nobel Prize's impact on institutions, journalism, and research.

Seminar 217, Risk Management: CANCELLED

Seminar | October 31 | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall

No Speaker

Online Tools for Mapping Demographic Data

Workshop | October 31 | 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 55A McCone Hall

Susan Powell, Library

Library

Whether you need to just make a quick map or extract geo-located demographic data for use in other software, online tools can be just the thing! This workshop will introduce a few different web platforms for exploring and mapping U.S. demographic data, including the UCB Library-subscribed databases SimplyAnalytics and PolicyMap. While there is some overlap between the different applications, each...   More >

This is [Socialist] Ghana Television

Colloquium | October 31 | 12:30-2 p.m. | 223 Moses Hall

Jennifer Blaylock, PhD Candidate, Department of Film and Media

Center for African Studies

This is a meeting of the weekly colloquium for the Center for African Studies.

Development Lunch: "Spillovers from Multinational Entry: Evidence from Costa Rica"

Seminar | October 31 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall

Jose Vasquez

Department of Economics

Student seminar series for development economics student in Econ and ARE.

Medicaid's Role in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

Colloquium | October 31 | 12:40-2 p.m. | 714C University Hall

Richard Frank, PhD, Professor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Healthcare Policy

Public Health, School of

The U.S. is facing an opioids epidemic that has been about 30 years in the making. While opioids overdoses are affecting nearly all American communities, opioid use disorder remains disproportionately a condition that strikes lower income populations. As a result the Medicaid program and its recent changes offer an important tool for addressing this threat to public health. I report on a set of...   More >

3-Manifold Seminar: Schwarzian derivatives, projective structures, and the Weil-Petersson gradient flow for renormalized volume

Seminar | October 31 | 2:10-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall

Franco Vargas, UCB

Department of Mathematics

In this talk I will discuss the paper of Bridgeman, Brock and Bromberg of the same title. In this article, the authors bound both the geometry of a projective structure over a surface Σ and its associated locally convex pleated surface by norms of $\phi _\Sigma$ (the quadratic holomorphic differential given by the Schwarzian derivative). We will discuss these terms and how they relate between...   More >

Student Harmonic Analysis and PDE Seminar (HADES): Resonances and wave decay on Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces

Seminar | October 31 | 3:40-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall

Peter Hintz, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

I will introduce the notion of resonances in potential and obstacle scattering in Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces and explain their relation to the local energy decay of solutions of the wave equation. This talk is based on joint work with Maciej Zworski.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Monodromy and Log Geometry

Seminar | October 31 | 3:45-4:45 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Arthur Ogus, UC Berkeley

Department of Mathematics

A proper semistable family over a disc gives rise to a smooth proper and saturated morphism $$X/S$$ of log analytic spaces over the log disc. We will explain how the underlying map of topological spaces $$X_{top}/S_{top}$$ can be recovered from the restriction $$X_0/S_0$$ of $$X/S$$ to the log point. We will also give simple formulas for the action of the monodromy and the differentials on the...   More >

ECON 281, International Trade and Finance: "The International Elasticity Puzzle is Worse than You Think"

Seminar | October 31 | 4-6 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall

Philippe Martin, Sciences Po

Department of Economics

Biophysics of Protein Disorder, Single Molecules to Mesoscales

Seminar | October 31 | 4-5 p.m. | 120 Latimer Hall

Ashok Deniz, Scripps Research Institute

College of Chemistry

How to Email a Professor to Get a Positive Response: Workshop

Workshop | October 31 | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | 9 Durant Hall

Leah Carroll

Do you need to email a professor you've never met before to ask for their help, but you don't know where to start? Have you ever written a long email to a professor, only to receive no response, or not the one you hoped? If so, this workshop is for you! We will discuss how to present yourself professionally over email to faculty and other professionals ...   More >

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Fellowship of the Ring: Stillman's Question, Solved! (Part 1)

Seminar | October 31 | 5-6 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall

Department of Mathematics

In this talk, we will give an introduction to the resolution of Stillman's conjecture by Ananyan and Hochster. Stillman's question asks whether or not there exists a bound on the projective dimension of a homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring which only depends on the number of generators of the ideal and their degrees. We will start by giving all relevant background material and providing a...   More >

EPMS Weekly Seminar

Seminar | November 1, 2016 – December 5, 2017 every Tuesday | 5:10-6 p.m. | 212 O'Brien Hall

Each week the Engineering and Project Management Society brings in a speaker to talk about topics related to construction and project management. Light refreshments will be provided.

Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at 510.643.6456 (voice) or 510.642.6376 (TTY) or by email at...   More >

Demystifying the Research Process: Decolonizing Methods in Social Science Research (Hosted by UROC: Underrepresented Researchers of Color)

Workshop | October 31 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Multicultural Community Center (MCC)

Istifaa Ahmed (Humanities/Social Science), Alexa Aburto (Humanities)