Upcoming Events

Join William D. Phillips, Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics, University of Maryland NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology for a Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture on the topic of Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe.

This will be a lively, multimedia presentation, including exciting experimental demonstrations and down-to-earth explanations about some of today’s hottest (and coolest) science.

Join William D. Phillips, Distinguished University and College Park Professor of Physics, University of Maryland NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology for a Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lecture on the topic of A New Measure: The Revolutionary, Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System.

The International System of Units (the SI), the modern metric system, has recently undergone its most revolutionary change since its origins during the French Revolution. This talk will describe why this reform was needed and how it is done.

  Join Kate Crawford, Research Professor of Communication and STS, Senior Principal Researcher, USC Annenberg, Microsoft Research for a Obert C. Tanner Lecture on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values on the topic of Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data. A public seminar discussion on March 4th will follow this event. In this lecture, Kate Crawford will share new work that reflects on what’s at stake in the architecture and contents of training sets, and how they are increasingly part of our urban, legal, logistical, and commercial infrastructures. Professor Crawford’s lecture is one of seven special Obert C. Tanner Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values. The six other participating universities in this series are Stanford University, University of Utah, University of Michigan, Yale University, Oxford University, and Cambridge University. This virtual event will be available to UC Berkeley students, faculty, staff and the greater Berkeley community virtually via live-stream video on the lecture webpage. Like all Berkeley Graduate Lectures, this event is free and open to the public. Please register to receive updates regarding the event. Register for the event For more information about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the  Tanner Lectures webpage.

Join Kate Crawford, Research Professor of Communication and STS, Senior Principal Researcher, USC Annenberg, Microsoft Research for a Tanner Seminar Discussion on the topic of Excavating “Ground Truth” in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data. This event follows Crawford's lecture on the same topic on March 3, 2022 and includes commentary by Marion Fourcade, Angjoo Kanazawa and Trevor Paglen.