Ongoing

Merrill College Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program

The program offers Merrill students an invaluable professional opportunity: the chance to work closely with a faculty member and get the kind of experience and advice that can prepare students for graduate or professional school or a career. Students who participate in the program will be employed as Research Assistants.

This program enables Merrill College Faculty Fellows to benefit from paid research assistance from an undergraduate affiliate of Merrill College.

The application is submitted by the faculty member rather than the student.

CSE Colloquium – Constraining Chaos: Toward Faithful and Semantic Decoding in Language Models

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Presenter: Loris D’Antoni, UC San Diego Abstract: Language models excel at producing fluent text, but in domains like code and math, fluency isn’t enough — outputs must obey strict syntactic and semantic rules. A new wave of research is rethinking decoding itself: not as a process of sampling words, but as a negotiation between probability, structure, and […]

Free

Successful Slug Workshop: Time Management (Zoom)

Successful Slug Workshops
Virtual Event

Time Management Wednesday, January 21, 2:45–3:30 p.m. Location: Zoom Learn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. Successful Slug Workshop Series Join Learning Support Services (LSS) for Successful Slug Workshops on Tuesdays at noon and Wednesdays at 2:45 p.m. These 45-minute workshops are open to all UCSC students and offer tools and strategies […]