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9:00 am-12:15 pm The History and Contemporary Forms of Japanese Food Culture
Toll Room, Alumni House |
10:00 am-5:00 pm Wonderfest 2009
Stanley Hall; RSVP http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/rsvp-register/ |
1:00 pm-3:00 pm Central Asia: A Land of Many Mountains
Silk Road House, 1944 University Avenue |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm Playreaders Performers’ Showcase (Play reading)
4th floor Story Room, Central Library, 2090 Kittredge (at Shattuck) |
3:00 pm-5:00 pm It's About Time! Musical Friends Celebrate the Poetry of Adam David Miller
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita Way |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Less Is More (Nonfiction book talk)
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue |
8:00 pm-10:00 pm Marilyn Nonken (Contemporary piano music)
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch Street |
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12:00 pm-1:15 pm Europe,NATO,Russia:Competitors?Partners?Does NATO have a Future?Russian Future?
223 Moses Hall |
12:00 pm-1:45 pm Race and Sex in Organizing Work: 'Diversity,' Discrimination, and Integration
2240 Piedmont Avenue; Reception |
12:00 pm-1:15 pm Article-Level Metrics at PLoS - What Are They, and Why Should You Care?
127 Dwinelle Hall |
12:00 pm-2:00 pm Economics Survey of Research: Econometrics
608-7 Evans Hall |
12:00 pm-2:00 pm Effect of Abortion Liberalization on Sexual Behavior: International Evidence
110 Boalt Hall; Reception |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lessons from Radiative and MHD Simulations for Supermassive Blackhole Growth
544 Campbell Hall |
12:00 pm-1:30 pm Dimitri Landa - Government Studies - Topic TBA
109 Harris Room |
12:30 pm-1:30 pm From Suds to Speedways: How “Green” Ideas Can Flow from Unexpected Taps
C125 Cheit Hall; Reception |
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Meaning Targets in Syntax and Morphology
1303 Dwinelle Hall |
2:00 pm-4:00 pm Income Effects in Labor Supply: New Evidence from Taxes and Birth Timing
608-7 Evans Hall |
2:00 pm-4:00 pm Daniel Egel - Economic History - Topic TBA
597 Evans Hall; CANCELLED |
2:30 pm-3:30 pm Carbon Nanotubes: From 'String' Theory to Solar Energy
3 LeConte Hall |
2:30 pm-4:00 pm Neutrino Mass Seesaw at the Weak Scale, the Baryon Asymmetry and the LHC
402 Old Le Conte Hall |
3:00 pm-4:00 pm Massive Protostars around IRAS 05345 3157 in the Making
544 Campbell Hall |
3:45 pm-5:15 pm Deliberately Small Reactors and the Second Nuclear Era
3:45-Tea; 4:00-Lecture, 3105 Etcheverry Hall; START TIME CORRECTED |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm A Faster and Simpler Algorithm for Computing Market Equilibrium
Wozniak Lounge, 430-8 Soda Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Discovery of Potent Enzyme Inhibitors Guided by Free-Energy Calculations
Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm The Silent Percussion Project and the Silent Drum (Computer Music Performance)
Center For New Music and Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch Street |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Somewhere I Have Never Traveled (Feature film/discussion)
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Shorter-Lived Greenhouse Pollutants/Climate Change Mitigation
159 Mulford Hall; TIME CORRECTED |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Millennium of Human Ecodynamics in Hawai'i:Islands as Model Systems
160 Kroeber Hall; Reception |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm The Future of Mankind and the Role of Green Chemistry
180 Tan Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Algernon Sidney’s Calvinist Republicanism and the End of the Long 16th Century
201 Moses Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Feature film)
Pacific Film Archive Theater (Free) |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm An Engel Curve for Variety
608-7 Evans Hall; ROOM CORRECTED |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm A Dynamic Model of Network Formation with Strategic Interactions
639 Evans Hall |
5:00 pm-6:00 pm Defending the Homeland Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
621 Stanley Hall; Reception |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm How Did The Universe Begin?
Chevron Auditorium, International House |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Who Really Opened the Wall?
Morrison Room, Doe Library; Reception |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Conversation with David Corvo
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; Reception; TIME CORRECTED |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm What is Fuzzy Logic, and What are its Applications?
110 Wheeler Hall |
5:30 pm-7:00 pm 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (Nonfiction book talk)
University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way; Light reception |
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Facing Japan (Short videos showing)
Library, North Gate Hall; Possible reception |
6:30 pm-7:30 pm Cathy Richardson (Artist's Talk)
Auditorium, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Egypt Middle East Inc (Documentary film)
Auditorium, International House; Free for I-House residents, members and alumni, $5 for UC Berkeley students and staff, and $10 for the general public |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Agenda for a New Economy Study/Action Circle: The Case for a New Economy
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita Way; (Nonfiction book discussion) |
7:00 pm-8:00 pm La Nana (Feature film, Spanish with English subtitles)
Pacific Film Archive Theater (Free) |
7:00 pm-8:00 pm Agency in Urban Landscapes
112 Wurster Hall |
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11:00 am-12:00 pm Total Syntheses of Angular-type Polycyclic Natural Products
120 Latimer Hall |
11:00 am-12:00 pm Rain/Snow in Sierra Nevada:Freezing Levels,Radar Brightbands,Mountain Hydrology
575 McCone Hall |
12:00 pm-1:30 pm Synthesis Report: Climate Change Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions
David Brower Center, Main Auditorium, 2150 Allston Way |
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Erick Gong - Development Lunch Title TBA
608-07 Evans Hall |
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Entre Góngora y Sor Juana:Espacio Burlesco del Amanecer Mitológico en Salazar
Spanish Department Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall (In Spanish) |
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Issues Related to the Naturtejo Ecopark
201 Moses Hall |
12:45 pm-1:45 pm Lifetime Achievement Award: Judge Lois Haight Herrington
110 Boalt Hall; Reception |
12:45 pm-1:45 pm The Mothers and Children of Camino Seguro in Guatemala
100 Boalt Hall; Reception |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm The Stellar Population Synthesis Technique
544 Campbell Hall |
1:30 pm-2:30 pm Sequence Detection Method for Single DNA Molecules via Extension Flow
3111 Building 67, Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
639 Evans Hall |
2:00 pm-3:30 pm Network Compress-Forward
400 Cory Hall |
2:00 pm-3:30 pm Who Thinks about the Competition?Managerial Ability/Strategic Entry in US/Phone
608-7 Evans Hall |
2:00 pm-4:00 pm Everyday Causal Reasoning
4207 Tolman Hall |
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Ecology of Parasitism in Namibian Wildlife
652 Barrows Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Magmatic Recharge Events and Long-Term Storage Conditions at El Chichon Volcano
265 McCone Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm The Unicellular Ancestry of Animal Development
100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm The Philosophical Baby (Nonfiction book talk)
Education/Psychology Library, 2600 Tolman Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Scholarship from the Ground Up
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall; Reception |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Molecular Plasmonics: Nanoscale Sensing and Spectroscopy
120 Latimer Hall |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm School Policy/Student Outcomes/Equilibrium: Determining the Price of Delinquency
608-7 Evans Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Mobile Device Insights: Virtualization and Device
540 Cory Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Detection with Scan and Average Likelihood Ratio
60 Evans Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Finite Element Analysis: What Can It Tell Us about Fossil Mammals?
5053 Valley Life Sciences Building |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm High-Level Tasks to Correct Low-Level Robot Control
540 Cory Hall |
5:00 pm-7:00 pm Managed Aquifer Recharge on Water Supply and Quality in Pajaro Valley
250 Goldman School of Public Policy; Reception |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Life as an Entrepreneur
Arthur Andersen Auditorium |
5:30 pm-7:00 pm The Concomitant Genomic Analysis of an Obligate Pathogen-Host Interaction
Campbell Hall Annex; Reception |
5:30 pm-7:30 pm Terror of Natural Right:Republicanism, Cult of Nature, the French Revolution
7415 Dwinelle Hall; Reception; (Nonfiction book talk); CHANGED TO THIS DATE |
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Classroom 2.0 for Teachers
UC Berkeley Extension, 1995 University Avenue; RSVP |
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Marxism and Ecology
125 Dwinelle Hall; Light reception; Readings - http://sites.google.com/site/imwgucberkeley/marxism-and-ecology |
6:30 pm-7:30 pm White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day (Nonfiction book talk)
Community Meeting Room, Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kittredge, at Shattuck |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Hamsun (Feature film,Swedish,Danish,Norwegian,English subtitles)
B-4 Dwinelle Hall |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos (Fiction book talk)
Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street; $12 advance ($6 students with ID) advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/group/155961 ; LOCATION CORRECTED |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm A Woman among Warlords: Human Rights and the War for ‘Hearts & Minds'
Chevron Auditorium, International House; (Nonfiction book talk) (Free) |
7:30 pm-9:00 pm An OmniDawn Evening (Poetry Reading)
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue near Dwight Way |
7:30 pm-8:30 pm Israel vs. Utopia (Nonfiction book talk)
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue |
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8:30 am-5:00 pm ReProducing Justice
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall |
10:00 am-2:00 pm Emerging Bangladesh
Great Hall, The Bancroft Hotel; Reception RSVP csas@berkeley.edu by 11/10/09 |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Rigel: A 1000 Core Substrate for High-Throughput Computing
430-438 Soda Hall |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Minnow Growth and Behavior in a Northern California Stream
2063 Valley Life Sciences Building |
12:00 pm-1:30 pm Integrating Civic Engagement and Community-based Activities/Teaching/Learning
370 Dwinelle Hall |
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Human Capital Mobility Risk and Expected Stock Returns
597 Evans Hall |
12:45 pm-1:45 pm Alien Tort Statute
110 Boalt Hall; Reception |
12:45 pm-1:45 pm The Evolving Law of Patent Damages.
105 Boalt Hall; Reception |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Information Scaling and Perceptual Transitions in Natural Images and Video
508-20 Evans Hall |
1:00 pm-2:00 pm Everything You Know about Cybercrime is Wrong
Wozniak Lounge, 430-8 Soda Hall |
1:30 pm-2:30 pm The Energetics and Structure of Metal/Polymer Interfaces
Auditorium, Room 317, Building 66, Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
3:00 pm-5:00 pm Song of Native California: A Native American Heritage Month Celebration
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Kroeber Hall; RSVP PAHMA-programs@berkeley.edu by 11/12/09 |
3:00 pm-5:00 pm O livro proibido é o mais apetecido: A censura em Portugal
201 Moses Hall |
3:30 pm-5:00 pm Processes Regulating Broadcast Spawning Behavior in Tropical Corals
3:30-Tea, 2063 Valley Life Sciences Building; 4:00-Lecture, 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Analysis of Natural Variation in Yeast
100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Chemistry Graduate Research Conference
120 Latimer Hall |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Set Identification via Quantile Restrictions in Short Panels
608-7 Evans Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations
639 Evans Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm A Utility for the Principled Mapping of Short Reads to a Reference Genome
1011 Evans Hall |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Oblivious and Cost Aware Load Sharing in the Cloud
Wozniak Lounge, 430-8 Soda Hall |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Hush, I Know a Story You Don’t Know:The Small Story/The Big Politics
2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Dr. Jeff Neaton - Materials Science - Topic TBA
348 Hearst Memorial Mining Building |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Chinese Reforms in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Heyns Room, Faculty Club; Possible reception; TIME LENGTH CHANGED |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Lessons from an Unusual Accretionary System: The Calabrian Arc of Southern Italy
141 McCone Hall; Reception |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Equilibrium Subprime Lending
C210 Cheit Hall |
5:00 pm-6:00 pm Story Hour in the Library
Morrison Room, Doe Library |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Global Business Accelerators
106 Wurster Hall |
5:00 pm-7:00 pm How Budget Cuts Are Hurting UC Workers and Shortchanging UC Students (Townhall)
315 Wheeler Hall |
5:00 pm-6:30 pm Re-evaluating the Translations of Zhu Fonian: A Preliminary Report
3335 Dwinelle Hall |
5:00 pm-7:00 pm Diversity Matters Still: Landscaping Diversity at UC Berkeley over Past 20 Years
Free Speech Movement Cafe, UC Berkeley; Probable reception |
5:30 pm-7:00 pm Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU (Nonfiction book talk)
University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way; Light reception |
6:00 pm-8:00 pm Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative All Membership Mixer
Thalassa, 2367 Shattuck Avenue; Reception RSVP http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2fUfcKqC3KUQImccbyLfxjg_3d_3d |
6:30 pm-8:30 pm Holloway/Mixed Blood Poetry (Poetry reading)
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall |
7:00 pm-8:00 pm LIVE: A Conversation with Novelist Stephen King
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, College Avenue and Ashby Avenue |
7:00 pm-8:30 pm Finding the Words: Candid Conversations with Loved Ones (Nonfiction book talk)
First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way; $12 advance, $6 students with ID advance at Brown Paper Tickets, $15 door |
7:00 pm-9:00 pm Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth
Berkeley Art Museum; Light reception |
7:30 pm-9:00 pm Fresh Ink (Poetry reading)
Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue near Dwight Way |
7:30 pm-8:30 pm Getting Messy:Taking Risks/Opening Imagination for Teachers,Trainers,Mentors
Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue |
7:30 pm-9:00 pm Democracy Development as a Foreign Policy Goal
Auditorium, International House |
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8:30 am-4:30 pm ReProducing Justice
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall; TIME CORRECTED |
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Wartime Economy and Culture in Chinese Daily Life, 1937-49
2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor; Reception RSVP marytrechock@berkeley.edu. |
9:00 am-5:00 pm Canada, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Responsibility to Protect
Ida Sproul Room, International House; RSVP rjross@berkeley.edu by 11/6/09; TIME LENGTH CORRECTED |
10:00 am-11:30 am Struggles from Below for Housing and Public Services in South Africa
652 Barrows Hall |
10:00 am-11:00 am How Feronista got its Upside-down Genitalia/More of Kipling's(just so?) Stories
1101 Valley Life Sciences Building |
10:00 am-4:30 pm Public Construction of a Vajradhâtu-mandala (Observation/talk)
310:00-Mandala construction; 4:00-Talk, 42 Dwinelle Hall |
11:00 am-12:30 pm From Spikes to Object Recognition and Beyond: Building an Embodied Brain
5101 Tolman Hall; Possible reception |
11:30 am-12:30 pm Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Lunch
Wozniak Lounge, 430-8 Soda Hall; Reception |
12:00 pm-2:00 pm Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality
Easton Hall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2451 Ridge Road |
12:00 pm-2:00 pm The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006
652 Barrows Hall |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Type Ia Supernova Rates from SNLS
INPA Common Room, 5026 Building 50, Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Thermodynamics of Amorphous Materials for Semiconductor/Photovoltaic Application
521 Cory Hall |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Conservation Adventures of the UC Botanical Garden
Herbarium Break Room (enter via 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building) |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Review of Energy Solutions to Global Warming, Air Pollution, and Energy Security
406 Davis Hall |
12:00 pm-1:30 pm Calorie Posting in Chain Restaurants
201 Giannini Hall |
12:00 pm-1:00 pm Issues and Challenges Leading up to COP-15: The U.N. Summit on Climate Change
Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor, Sutardja Dai Hall |
12:15 pm-1:30 pm Torah Queeries: Reading the Bible Through a Bent Lens
Mudd Building, Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue |
12:30 pm-1:30 pm Clathrin is Not Required for Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis
101 Life Sciences Addition |
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Addressing New Challenges in Data Stream Processing
606 Soda Hall; Reception |
1:00 pm-5:00 pm New Directions for American Drug Policy?
105 Boalt Hall; RSVP http://www.law.berkeley.edu/2009calebfoote.htm |
2:00 pm-3:30 pm Seven Years Stalking Serotonin's Secrets in Psychedelic Users
5101 Tolman Hall |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm Inorganic-Organic Co-Assembly/Simple Route/Functional Nanostructured Materials
390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building |
2:00 pm-3:00 pm Thermodynamics of Amorphous Materials/Semiconductor/Photovoltaic Applications
521 Cory Hall |
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Now That We Know: Torture, Obama and the Politics of Dirty Hands
315 Wheeler Hall |
3:00 pm-4:30 pm Composers Colloquium: Dmitri Kourliandski (Video interview)
CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street |
3:00 pm-5:00 pm Language, Tourism, and Banal Globalization
B-4 Dwinelle Hall; Reception |
3:00 pm-5:00 pm Data as Evidence
107 South Hall |
3:00 pm-5:30 pm Commons vs. Commodities: Ambiguous Merits of Community Water Supply Management
223 Moses Hall; Reception; Paper (to be read beforehand) - http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/GreenGovernance/sched_current.html |
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Writing/Speaking Libya as Histories:Historiography of Modern/Contemporary Libya
340 Stephens Hall; TIME CORRECTED |
3:30 pm-5:00 pm How We Understand, Model, and Explain Crashes and Their Clustering
3:30-Tea, Transportation Library, 4th Floor, McLaughlin Hall; 4:00-Lecture, 240 Bechtel Engineering Center |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Catalytic Functionalization of Low Reactive Carbon-Hydrogen Bonds
120 Latimer Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Decision Interruption
C125 Cheit Hall |
4:00 pm-6:00 pm Dance and the Philosophy of Perception and Consciousness
126 Dwinelle Annex |
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Art, Truth and Politics (Videotaped talk)
Durham Studio Theater, Rear of Dwinelle Hall |
4:00 pm-5:30 pm Principal Characteristics and Ritual Uses of the Vajradhala Mandala
342 Dwinelle Hall |
4:30 pm-6:30 pm Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Riprap with Gary Snyder
Morrison Room, Doe Library |
4:30 pm-5:30 pm The Resounding Body: Music, Dance, and Trance as Portals of Healing
128 Morrison Hall |
5:00 pm-8:00 pm Urban Reaissance: New Visions of Jewelry and Sculpture
ACCI Gallery, 1652 Shattuck Avenue; (Art exhibit opening/reception) |
7:30 pm-9:00 pm My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, and Big Sur
Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue; (Nonfiction book talk) |
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