CSE Colloquium – Towards Relational Foundation Models: Zero-Shot Forecasting over Relational Databases

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

Presenter: Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis, Stanford University Abstract: Foundation models have transformed unstructured domains such as language and vision, yet relational datasets, where most enterprise knowledge lives, still rely on brittle, task-specific ML pipelines. I will begin by introducing Relational Deep Learning (RDL), a general framework for learning directly from heterogeneous multi-table data, capturing structure across entities, attributes, […]

Free

STEM Career & Internship Fair

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz

If you are interested in pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or research, then take advantage of this opportunity to meet recruiters from companies looking to fill various positions (both technical and non-technical). Learn more about internships and full-time career opportunities. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent alumni are all welcome to attend!

Statistics Seminar: Inferring Unobserved Trajectories from Multiple Temporal Snapshots

Engineering 2, 599
Virtual Event

Presenter: Yunyi Shen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Description: Practitioners often aim to infer an unobserved population trajectory using sample snapshots at multiple time points. E.g. given single-cell sequencing data, scientists would like to learn how gene expression changes over a cell’s life cycle. But sequencing any […]

International Market Fair

Classroom Unit Classroom Unit, Santa Cruz

Participate in an international-themed fair and win free snacks from around the world

Decolonizing Education with Annamarie Chavez

Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz

Join our conversation with, fourth-year UCSC student Annamarie Chavez as she aims to spread awareness around colonial practices within higher educational systems like universities while challenging those institutions to bring indigenous perspectives and practices to the forefront.

Free

Ancestral Algorithms: Indigenous Virtual Realities & the Ethics of AI

This talk explores how Indigenous analytic and ancestral technologies, rooted in technē as craft, knowledge, and skilled practice, inform contemporary digital forms such as Virtual Reality and AI. It traces how ancestral memory is transferred, adapted, and sustained across generations through decolonial and anti-colonial frameworks, while critically engaging both the generative possibilities and the structural […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates

The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz

The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]

Last modified: Jan 26, 2026