Academic
Monday, March 12, 2018
Lessons from the Black Panther Party's Oakland Community School
Workshop | March 12 | 2407 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley History-Social Science Project
Join UCBHSSP for a day of content learning and planning! Angela LeBlanc-Ernest, a scholar of the Black Panther Party, will share her research, which is part of a documentary she is developing on the Party's Oakland Community School. She will also introduce teachers to the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, which highlights the experience of women in the Black Panther Party.
Beyond New Neurons: The Secretory Role of Adult Hippocampal Stem and Progenitor Cells
Seminar | March 12 | 9-10:30 a.m. | 445 Li Ka Shing Center
Dr. Liz Kirby, Assistant Professor at OSU
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
In the adult mammalian hippocampus, resident neural stem and progenitor cells give rise to new, highly plastic neurons. A great deal of research has focused on the role of these new neurons in supporting hippocampal memory function and injury response. However, our recent work shows that undifferentiated neural stem and progenitor cells also have functional relevance by secreting soluble... More >
The Political Economy and Legal Aspects of Trade Policy in the Trump Era
Conference/Symposium | March 12 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Warren Room 295
UC Berkeley School of Law, The Berkeley APEC Study Center, The Institute of East Asian Studies, Miller Center for Global Challenges and the Law, The Clausen Center for International Business and Policy
With the Brexit referendum, election of Donald Trump, and the continued stasis at the World Trade Organization (WTO), the liberal, rules-based trading order is facing considerable pressure for business and policymakers. These pressures come from structural economic forces, systemic changes in geopolitics, domestic political conflicts in the US and elsewhere, and a rethinking of the ideological... More >
Graduate Students Talk
Seminar | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
Nevin El Nimri; Patrick Carney
Combinatorics Seminar: A crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux
Seminar | March 12 | 12-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Maria Monks Gillespie, UC Davis
We establish a crystal-like structure on shifted tableaux, whose characters are the Schur $Q$-functions. In particular, we will define two sets of coplactic raising and lowering operators $E$, $F$, $E'$, and $F'$ on shifted tableaux that each independently give a type A Kashiwara crystal. Taken together, these operators detect highest weight skew shifted tableaux, giving a new shifted... More >
Comparative Neurobiology of Social Bonds - from Rodents to Primates to Humans
Colloquium | March 12 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Karen Bales, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Social bonds are critical to human health and well-being. However, most of what we know regarding the neurobiology of strong, selective social bonds ("pair-bonds") comes from a socially monogamous rodent, the prairie vole. In my laboratory, we also study a socially monogamous primate, the titi monkey, as a model for the neurobiology of pair bond formation and maintenance. We have characterized... More >
PMB Student/Postdoc Seminar: Leveraging Social Media for Science Communication and Professional Development
Seminar | March 12 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 338 Koshland Hall
Sara ElShafie, Grad student, IB; Aaron Pomerantz, Grad student, IB
Plant and Microbial Biology Student Group
What is the most effective way to use social media to share your scientific work with the public? How can you use social media to network and find professional opportunities? This workshop will explore how you can use social media to advance your career and heighten the impact of your work.
The Plant and Microbial Biology Student Group (PMBG) hosts a special Student Postdoc Seminar on social... More >
The fabric of the neocortex: a less-artificial intelligence
Seminar | March 12 | 1-2 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition
**Andreas Tolias**, Baylor College of Medicine
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Standard invariants for discrete subfactors
Seminar | March 12 | 2-3:50 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Dave Penneys, Ohio State University
The standard invariant of a finite index $II_1$ subfactor is a λ-lattice and forms a planar algebra. In turn, the planar algebra formalism has been helpful in constructing and classifying subfactors, as well as studying analytic properties. In joint work with Corey Jones, we give a well-behaved notion of the standard invariant of an extremal irreducible discrete subfactor $N\subset M$, where $N$... More >
Seminar 231, Public Finance: Special Seminar: How Did Tax Reform Happen?
Seminar | March 12 | 2-4 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
David Kamin / Ed Kleinbard / Alan Auerbach
Differential Geometry Seminar: New examples of complete Calabi-Yau metrics on \(ℂ^n\) for \(n \geq 3\)
Seminar | March 12 | 2:10-3 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Ronan Conlon, Florida International University
I will present new examples of non-flat complete Calabi-Yau metrics on \(ℂ^n\) for \(n \geq 3\) having Euclidean volume growth and a tangent cone at infinity with a singular cross section. This is joint work with Frédéric Rochon (UQAM).
BLISS Seminar: Robust Storage of Information in DNA Molecules
Seminar | March 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 540 Cory Hall
Reinhard Heckel, Rice University
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Due to its longevity and enormous information density, DNA is an attractive medium for archival storage of digital information. In this talk, we discuss algorithmic and design aspects of DNA data storage systems. A key distinctive aspect of DNA data storage systems is that due to technological constraints, (1) data is written onto many short DNA molecules that are stored in an unordered way and... More >
Core Cognitive Mechanisms in Learning and Development
Colloquium | March 12 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 5101 Tolman Hall
Celeste Kidd, Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
The talk will discuss approaches aimed at understanding the computational mechanisms that drive learning and development in young children. Although infants are born knowing little about the world, they possess remarkable learning mechanisms that eventually create sophisticated systems of knowledge. We discuss recent empirical findings about learners’ cognitive mechanisms—including attention,... More >
STROBE Seminar Series: Strategies for Effective Mentoring
Seminar | March 12 | 3-4 p.m. | 433 Latimer Hall
The purpose of this workshop is to assist graduate students and other STROBE participants in working effectively within the context of mentoring relationships with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Participants will learn about the importance of mentoring both to mentors and mentees, how to initiate mentoring relationships and keep them on track, and how to address
problems that... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: $2^k$-Selmer groups, $2^k$-class groups, and Goldfeld's conjecture
Seminar | March 12 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 748 Evans Hall
Alexander Smith, Harvard University
Take $E/\mathbb Q$ to be an elliptic curve with full rational 2-torsion (satisfying some extra technical assumptions). In this talk, we will show that $100\%$ of the quadratic twists of $E$ have rank less than two, thus proving that the BSD conjecture implies Goldfeld's conjecture in these families. To do this, we will extend Kane's distributional results on the 2-Selmer groups in these families... More >
Political Economy Seminar
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, Evans Hall 648
Ben Olken, MIT
The Political Economy Seminar focuses on formal and quantitative work in the political economy field, including formal political theory.
IB Seminar: Evolution in full color: natural selection, sexual selection, and unexpected diversity in frogs
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Rayna Bell, National Museum of Natural History
The impact of biology on genome editing
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
Dana Carroll, The University of Utah
Seminar 208, Microeconomic Theory: "Long-Term Contracting With Time-Inconsistent Agents"
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 639 Evans Hall
Analysis and PDE Seminar: Honeycomb Structures, Edge States, and the Strong Binding Regime
Seminar | March 12 | 4-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Michael Weinstein, Columbia University and Stanford University
We review recent progress on the propagation of waves for the 2D Schrödinger and Maxwell equations for media with the symmetry of a hexagonal tiling of the plane.
Basic Needs Security Mental Health Workshop
Workshop | March 12 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Stiles Hall Conference Room (basement)
Tova Feldmanstern, Counseling & Psychological Services
UC Berkeley Basic Needs Security Committee
The student mental health workshop will be hosted by Tova Feldmanstern, a Staff Social Worker from Counseling & Psychological Services, who will be giving a brief presentation about mental health information and basic needs resources. Then a student panel will be sharing their personal experiences, with time at the end for questions. This will be followed by a community building space for... 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 >
The Honorable J. Clifford Wallace Lecture Series: the Ups and Downs of Religious Freedom
Panel Discussion | March 12 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Boalt Hall, School of Law, Room 295, Warren Room
Michael W. McConnell, Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law Director, Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley
Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law (Emeritus) at University of California, Berkeley
Frederick Gedicks, Guy Anderson Chair and Professor of Law at Brigham Young University
Stephen Sugarman, Roger J. Traynor Professor at University of California, Berkeley
Monday, March 12, 2018
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Warren Room 295, Berkeley Law
THE HONORABLE J. CLIFFORD WALLACE LECTURE SERIES: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
