Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A presented as part of a Matrix Research Team entitled "Community Conversations on Sexual Violence and Harassment: Narratives of Activism, Inclusion, Confidentiality, Accountability, and Healing". The discussion will focus on the limits of what can be learned about sexual violence and harassment from personal narratives that are shared online, as well as the question of is missed in survey data related to sexual violence and harassment.

Please join us on September 20 for "Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children in Migration," featuring presentations by two scholars. Leisy J. Abrego, Associate Professor, Department of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, will present “It is a Crime to be Young Here: Violence Against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States". Patricia Baquedano-López, Associate Professor in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, will present "Pedagogies of Migration/Reframing: What It Means to Teach and Learn Indigenous Maya Families from Yucatán in California".

A panel discussion focused on the new textbook, Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security. Panelists include: Catherine Olsson (Google Brain); Roman Yampolskiy (The Editor of Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security): Author of Preface: “Introduction to AI Safety and Security”; Alexey Kurakin (Google AI): First Author of Chapter 8: “Adversarial Examples in the Physical World” with co-authors Ian J. Goodfellow and Samy Bengio; Phillip Kuznetsov (Machine Learning @ Berkeley): First Author of Chapter 17: “Adversarial Machine Learning” with co-authors Riley Edmunds, Ted Xiao, Humza Iqbal, Raul Puri, Noah Golmant, and Shannon Shih; Mahendra Prasad (UC Berkeley Political Science): Author of Chapter 21: “Social Choice and the Value Alignment Problem”; and Thomas Gilbert (UC Berkeley Machine Ethics and Epistemology).

DUE TO TRAVEL CHALLENGES RELATED TO HURRICANE FLORENCE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

How do our strategies of fighting fire have to change to match the new normal, and when there is a fatality do we have to ask questions differently? Ivan Pupulidy, PhD. applies dynamic perspectives to complex systems and high-risk environments, such as wildland firefighting, aviation, military and medicine. His approach to human factors includes the social aspects of human interaction and sensemaking, which are essential components of a learning organization. As a U.S. Forest Service Director, Ivan replaced the traditional accident investigation model with the Learning Review, which embraces complex events by looking at conditions and networks of influence; this approach helps organizations develop learning and cultural change.

Social scientists are increasingly taking advantage of machine learning methods to gain new insight into their data and expand their methodological toolbox. Presented as part of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, this course covers both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods but will place special emphasis on the (often) underappreciated suite of unsupervised learning tools.

Presented as part of the ICPSR 2018 Summer Workshops in Quantitative Methods of Social Research, this workshop introduces the Bayesian multilevel model framework.

This panel discussion will feature E. Glen Weyl, principal researcher at Microsoft and visiting senior research scholar in economics and law at Yale University, who together with Eric Posner co-authored the book, Radical Markets, which introduces evolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all.

Faculty, students, and staff from across the UC Berkeley community are cordially invited to a combined Social Sciences Fest/Matrix Open House! Social Science Fest celebrates the accomplishments of the Social Sciences Division and its faculty. Please join us to enjoy food and drink and learn more about what has been happening in the social sciences at UC Berkeley.