Academic
Thursday, September 26, 2019
OPT Document Check Workshop
Workshop | September 26 | 10-11 a.m. | International House, Sproul Rooms
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare to put together your documents for your OPT application. This workshop will cover required documents, how to fill out the forms, and most common mistakes in the application. In addition, there will be a Q&A portion during which you can ask specific questions about your own application.
Please note that this workshop is specifically for OPT... More >
Applied Math Seminar: On Large Deviations for Large Neural Networks
Seminar | September 26 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Joan Bruna, Courant Institute
Virtually all modern deep learning systems are trained with some form of local descent algorithm over a high-dimensional parameter space. Despite its apparent simplicity, the mathematical picture of the resulting setup contains several mysteries that combine statistics, approximation theory and optimization, all intertwined in a curse of dimensionality.
In order to make progress, authors have... More >
Econ 235, Financial Economics Seminar: “The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market”
Seminar | September 26 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | C210 Haas School of Business
Mark Egan, Harvard Business School
Joint with Haas Finance Seminar
3-Manifold Seminar: Cubulated hyperbolic groups.
Seminar | September 26 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Eduardo Oregon-Reyes, UC Berkeley
A group is cubulated if it admits a geometric action on a $\textrm {CAT}(0)$ cube complex. We'll discuss the class of cubulated hyperbolic groups, which by Agol's work satisfy the "virtually special" condition introduced by Haglund and Wise. We'll explore some consequences of this in terms of subgroup separability and existence of hierarchies.
Melodie Yashar: Human Factors Within Autonomous Buildings: Design for Earth, the Moon, and Mars
Presentation | September 26 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Melodie Yashar shares insights from her work as a design architect, researcher, and cofounder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a group building upon a ten-year portfolio of academic space research and practice developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration. In 2015 SEArch+ was awarded the top prize in NASA’s Centennial Challenge for a 3D-Printed Habitat for the proposal... More >
Finding Health Statistics and Data
Workshop | September 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Barrows Hall, Barrows 356: D-Lab Convening Room
Michael Sholinbeck, University of California Berkeley
Bioscience, Natural Resources & Public Health Library
Participants in this workshop will learn about some issues surrounding the collection of health statistics, and will also learn about authoritative sources of health statistics and data. We will look at tools that let you create custom tables of vital statistics (birth, death, etc.), disease statistics, health behavior statistics, and more. The focus will be on U.S. statistics, but sources of... More >
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar
Seminar | September 26 | 12-1:30 p.m. | C330 Haas School of Business
Stephen Haber, Professor, Stanford
The Oliver E. Williamson Seminar on Institutional Analysis, named after our esteemed colleague who founded the seminar, features current research by faculty, from UCB and elsewhere, and by advanced doctoral students. The research investigates governance and its links with economic and political forces. Markets, hierarchies, hybrids, and the supporting institutions of law and politics all come... More >
Saving For College (BEUHS362)
Workshop | September 26 | 12:10-1:30 p.m. | Tang Center, University Health Services, Section Club
Adalberto Padilla, ScholarShare
Learn about saving for college with the ScholarShare 529 College Savings Plan. Participants will review the following points and be provided an opportunity to ask questions concerning saving for college.
•The benefits of higher education
•The cost of higher education
•What you can do
•Different ways to save
•Getting started
•FAQs
BIO: Adalberto Padilla, who goes by Adal, was born and... More >
IB Faculty on Parade
Seminar | September 26 | 12:30-1:30 p.m. | 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Tyrone Hayes: "In The Park After Dark: Chemical Trespass, Evolution, And Dollar Bills", University of California, Berkeley; Mary Power: "Keystone symbioses in algal-based river food webs", University of California, Berkeley
Econ 235, Financial Economics Student Seminar: Liquidity Backstop and the Industrial Organization of Mortgage Market
Seminar | September 26 | 12:45-2 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall
Dayin Zhang
Cultural Adjustment: Becoming Yourself in a New Culture
Workshop | September 26 | 1-2 p.m. | International House, Sproul Room
Berkeley International Office(BIO)), Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
If you’re new to the U.S. or new to UC Berkeley, you are likely beginning the journey of cultural adjustment – a period of time when you try to make sense of your new home, figure out who you are here and learn to navigate this place while also remaining true to yourself and your home culture. Cultural adjustment is a natural part of life that happens to most of us who have lived or studied... More >
Microsoft SharePoint Automation and Integrations
Course | September 26 | 1:30-3 p.m. | Virtual Classroom
This course details the process of integrating Microsoft Office applications with SharePoint Site data. Emphasis is placed on automation, connection settings, and real time data feeds between SharePoint Sites and the Microsoft Office suite. Learning Objectives * Understand the underlying structure and hierarchy of Sites, Subsites, and Apps. * Create and assign automated Alerts to notify users of... More >
OPT Document Check Webinar
Workshop | September 26 | 3-4 p.m. | Online Webinar
Berkeley International Office(BIO))
Join Berkeley International Office as you prepare to put together your documents for your OPT application. This webinar will cover required documents, how to fill out the forms, and most common mistakes in the application. In addition, there will be a Q&A portion during which you can ask specific questions about your own application.
Please note that this webinar is specifically for OPT... More >
Monica White - Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Colloquium | September 26 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Monica White, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Research on Social Change,, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley Food Institute, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
About the Speaker:
Monica M. White is an associate professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a joint appointment in the department of Community and Environmental Sociology and the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. She is the first Black woman to earn tenure in both the College of Agricultural Life Sciences (1889) and the Nelson Institute (1970)... More >
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Colloquium | September 26 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Monica White, Associate Professor of Environmental Justice, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Research on Social Change, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, Berkeley Food Institute, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM), College of Natural Resources
Revises the historical narrative of African American resistance and breaks new ground by including the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed.
California on the Page: An On the Same Page panel
Panel Discussion | September 26 | 3:30-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium
Chiyuma Elliot, Author of California Winter League; Alberto Ledesma, Author of Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer; Karen Llagas, Author of Archipelago Dust
Hertha Sweet Wong, Professor, Department of English, UCB
Tommy Orange set his novel about indigenous lives in Oakland, but he is by no means the first or only author to try to capture something about the essence of California or its distinctive urban identities in his writing. This panel brings together creative writers whose work touches in meaningful ways on the magnificent diversity that is California. From poetry to a graphic memoir, their writing... More >
Free and open to all on a first-come, first-seated basis
ESPM Seminar Series, Fall 2019: Monica White
Seminar | September 26 | 3:30 p.m. | 132 Mulford Hall
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Mgmt. (ESPM)
Monica White, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present: "Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement." Coffee will be available before the talk at 2:30PM in 139 Mulford; meet the speaker after the talk in 139 Mulford Hall.
Seminar 242, Econometrics: Reading Group Meeting (Canceled)
Seminar | September 26 | 4-5 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Mathematics Department Colloquium: Identities for $1/\pi ^2$ and special hypergeometric motives
Colloquium | September 26 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 60 Evans Hall
John Voight, Dartmouth College
More than a century ago, Ramanujan discovered remarkable formulas for $1/\pi $. Inspired by these discoveries, similar Ramanujan-like expressions for $1/\pi ^2$ have been uncovered recently by Guillera. We explain the provenance of these formulas: we recognize certain special hypergeometric motives as arising from Hilbert modular forms in an explicit way. This is joint work with Lassina... More >
What Shapes Labor Migration Paths from Nepal to the World?: Differential Resources of Migrant Households and Differential Accessibility of Destination Countries (A Joint UC Berkeley-CNRS Workshop)
Conference/Symposium | September 26 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Tristan Bruslé, Researcher, Centre d'Études Himalayennes, CNRS - Villejuif; Keiko Yamanaka, Lecturer, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Alexander von Rospatt, Professor, Buddhist and South Asian Studies; Acting Chair, South and Southeast Asian Studies; and Director, Himalayan Studies Initiative
Stéphane Gros, Researcher, Centre d'Études Himalayennes, CNRS - Villejuif
Institute for South Asia Studies, The Berkeley Himalayan Studies Program, France Berkeley Fund, Centre d'Etudes Himalayennes (CEH) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
A half-day workshop at UC Berkeley that will bring together experts working on the Himalayan region in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Panel Discussion: The Life and Career of Kaneji Domoto
Panel Discussion | September 26 | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
This exhibition explores the complex story behind the only American Japanese architect and landscape architect at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian community, in Westchester County, New York in 1944.
Book Launch -- James Joyce and the Matter of Paris: Catherine Flynn
Reading - Nonfiction | September 26 | 7-8 p.m. | City Lights Bookstore
Catherine Flynn, Associate Professor, Berkeley English
In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Joyce's underexamined first exile in 1902-03, she shows the significance for his writing of the time he spent in Paris and of a range of French authors whose works inflected his experience of that city.... More >
