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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nDescription: Recently\, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development\, thus creating an increasingly large gap between user demand and the supply that the semiconductor industry can deliver. In this talk\, we will discuss the unique roles of memristor technologies that can be leveraged to develop scaled-up AI neural networks\, particularly spiking neural networks (SNNs) for brain-like neuromorphic computing and unsupervised learning with high energy efficiency. Open-source memristor circuit designs\, along with open-source software\, may facilitate the development of micro- and nano-electronic systems that emulate brain functions. In this venue\, we will discuss how to harness memristor- based circuits and systems to build memristor neurons\, synapses\, and their interconnects for ultra-high packing density\, low power consumption\, and the fabrication services needed to enable innovation. \n  \nBio: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the Baskin School of Engineering\, UC Santa Cruz; Chancellor Emeritus of UC Merced; and President Emeritus of KAIST. He has published more than 500 journal and conference papers\, authored 10 books\, and holds 17 patents. Before returning to academia in 1985\, he led the development of the world’s premier fully CMOS 32-bit VLSI microprocessor chipsets for telecommunications and computing applications as a technical supervisor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill\, New Jersey. This work was recognized as an IEEE Milestone in February 2025. He has received honors\, including best paper awards\, induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame\, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientists Award\, the IEEE Millennium Medal\, the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Award\, the IEEE CAS Society Technical Excellence Award\, the US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award\, the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award\, and the IEEE CAS Society John Choma Education Award\, as well as the Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award. Dr. Kang is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)\, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\, and the Asia-Pacific AI Association. He is a life member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology\, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering\, Korea. He received his B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University\, Teaneck\, New Jersey\, in 1970; an honorary B.S. from Yonsei University; an M.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972; and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975\, all in electrical engineering. \n  \nHosted by: Professor Soumya Bose\, ECE Department \nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=ljcgaCfhMmhZ88Vt5dqQUBVQRjehOx.1
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ece-290-seminar-memristors-for-a-brain-scale-neuromorphic-chip/
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SUMMARY:Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making\, Acts Of Resistance\, And Imagining Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board\, card\, role-playing\, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects\, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists\, faculty\, alumni\, and students\, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives. \nIn part\, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary\, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems\, lived experience\, and how power operates. This exhibition does not attempt to represent that full spectrum. Instead\, it brings together a particular set of works that foreground how games can make systems visible\, intervene in them\, and imagine alternatives. \nAll games embody values\, whether intentional or not.  \n– Mary Flanagan\, game designer and scholar \nAcross all of these works\, games are not only forms of entertainment\, though they may be that as well. They are encountered in multiple ways: as objects\, as systems\, as artworks\, and as experiences that unfold unpredictably through interaction. In each case\, rules and constraints shape what participants can do. In these different forms\, the works stage systems – such as housing and land ownership\, capitalism\, race and identity\, civil rights and protest\, fascism\, and colonialism – in ways that are simplified and easy to see\, opening space to recognize similar structures beyond the game. In this sense\, the works suggest that rules are not neutral – they organize experience\, distribute power\, and produce meaning. \nGames are the art of agency. \n– C. Thi Nguyen\, philosopher \nThe exhibition is intentionally dense. This abundance reflects the breadth of ways games operate across contexts\, from activism and education to art and everyday life. While it celebrates creativity and difference\, it also asks how these works engage critically with the structures that shape our lives.  \nSome works use rules to model systems\, helping players understand how those systems operate. Others use play to rehearse action\, asking players to practice navigating or challenging those systems. Still others turn toward speculation\, inviting players to imagine alternative futures\, worlds\, and the systems that might shape them.  \nThe imagination is an instrument of change. \n– Ursula K. Le Guin\, author \nThe focus on analog games reflects how they foreground materiality and shared physical presence. Played face-to-face\, handled\, read aloud\, and experienced together\, these works show how rules operate not in abstraction\, but through lived\, embodied experience. \nUltimately\, the exhibition asks us to consider not only how games represent the world\, but how they shape our engagement with it – and how through play\, the social and political systems they model might be understood\, challenged\, and reimagined. \nGames are not apolitical. \n– Kishonna L. Gray\, media scholar \n  \nGallery Reception\nMay 15 from 1 to 4pm at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery \n  \nArt Friday\nHands-on art activities drawing from the current exhibition.\nALL ARE WELCOME regardless of skill level. Art supplies and free snacks are provided!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/rules-are-not-neutral-play-as-sense-making-acts-of-resistance-and-imagining-otherwise/2026-06-01/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar - Alex Olwal\, "Human-Centered Augmentation: Interacting with Matter\, Humans\, and Machines"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Alex Olwal \nDescription: “In this talk\, I will share my perspectives on the evolution and future of human-centered augmentation\, through the lens of two decades of research and development. Drawing from experiences across academia and industry\, I will discuss insights from having led projects in augmented reality\, accessibility\, electronic textiles\, novel sensing and displays\, and their implications for emerging AI-augmented interfaces.” \nBio: Alex Olwal is a research scientist and engineering leader focused on interaction technology and human augmentation. During his tenure at Google\, he founded the Interaction Lab and Biointerfaces team \, and tech transferred accessibility-focused language glasses to the Augmented Reality product organization\, where he established the Augmented Language Team. As an engineering manager in the product organization\, he evolved his team’s scope to deliver Human-AI language capabilities\, including speech perception\, natural language understanding\, real-time translation and captions\, and generative AI. The team’s conversational AI experiences for AR glasses were a key feature in the Google I/O 2022 keynote. Alex’s research has spanned augmented reality\, ubiquitous computing\, wearables\, and accessibility\, often leveraging novel opportunities in display technology\, sensing\, soft electronics\, and machine intelligence. He is passionate about impactful problems that can be addressed through Human-AI interfaces\, real-time interaction techniques and transformative applications. \nPreviously\, Alex conducted research at MIT Media Lab as a postdoctoral fellow after receiving his Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, with research conducted at Columbia University\, UC Santa Barbara\, and Microsoft Research (research internship). He has held faculty positions at Stanford University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, and KTH. \nWebsite: www.olwal.com \nHosted by: Professor Katherine Isbister \nWhen: Monday\, June 1\, 2026 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM \nLocation:  \nIN-PERSON @ UCSC Main Campus\, E2-280. \nViewing room @ SVC 3212. \nLUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT BOTH LOCATIONS! Faculty and students are highly encouraged to attend. \nZoom info: \nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97081260699?pwd=eyt5f4CAEHHLQWBhdaLA693T3gecaj.1\nMeeting ID: 970 8126 0699\nPasscode: 047011
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cm-seminar-alex-olwal-human-centered-augmentation-interacting-with-matter-humans-and-machines/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge
DESCRIPTION:Host: ENVS Personnel Committee \nGroundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to support state goals of sustainable and equitable management. However\, court adjudicated basins that encompass over 8\,000 square miles and are home to nearly 11 million people\, over 4 million of whom live in disadvantaged and economically vulnerable communities\, are not managed under SGMA but under court judgments. The groundwater basins in the entire San Gabriel River Watershed and large areas of the Santa Ana Watershed in Southern California are adjudicated. Our research evaluated how management of these important groundwater basins under a court appointed Watermaster is aligned with state sustainability and equity goals as expressed in SGMA. \nIn person and on Zoom \nMeeting ID:  949 5253 7079 \nPasscode: 552886
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/groundwater-management-in-california/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Sciences Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Denis Titov\, Assistant Professor\, University of California\, Berkeley \nDescription: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously\, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When this control fails\, diseases including diabetes\, cardiovascular disease\, and fatty liver disease result. One key control mechanism is allosteric regulation\, where a small molecule binds to an enzyme and changes its activity. Allosteric regulation is among the most conserved features of cellular life\, yet the functions it serves remain one of the oldest unsolved problems in biology. Several roles have been proposed\, but since the discovery of allostery in the 1950s\, no one has systematically disabled it in metabolic enzymes and measured the consequences. Four technological advances now converge to make this possible. CRISPR enables precise genome editing of allosteric sites. Structural biology has mapped which residues to target. LC-MS metabolomics makes metabolic phenotyping routine. The speed of modern computers enables detailed modeling of allosteric regulator function. In this talk\, I will describe our work developing and testing the first-in-class biophysical model of a metabolic pathway that accurately predicts responses to the addition or removal of allosteric regulators. Our work provides a framework for developing predictive models of cell metabolism that can be used for drug development or for engineering cells for energy production and chemical synthesis. Within a decade\, we plan to develop a model that accurately predicts metabolic activity in any human cell type under any condition. \nAbout the speaker: Denis Titov is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley with joint appointments in the Department of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition\, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology\, and Center for Computational Biology. Dr. Titov’s long-term research dream is to improve the understanding of human metabolic pathway regulation to a point where we can accurately predict metabolic pathway activity in any cell type\, under any condition\, and in response to any perturbation. Dr. Titov is interested in the following broad questions: How does metabolic homeostasis emerge from the activities of individual enzymes? What trade-offs drove the evolution of specific metabolic pathways and their control mechanisms? How to effectively combine data and biophysical models to simulate metabolic pathways? To tackle these questions\, Titov lab is using a combination of biochemistry\, mathematical modeling\, physiology\, custom instrumentation\, and genetically encoded tool development to study metabolism in mammalian cells and reconstituted biochemical systems. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Nilah Ioannidis.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-using-math-and-experiments-to-study-the-control-of-cell-metabolism/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: From Random Walks to Planning-Ready World Models: A Normative Model of Place Cells
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Deqian Kong\, PhD student\, UCLA \nDescription: How does the hippocampus turn experience into a cognitive map that is not just a passive record of space but a representation ready for planning? In this talk\, I will present a normative model in which place cells emerge as a non-negative population embedding whose inner products approximate the multi-step random walk transition kernel across a discrete set of time scales. From this single construction\, a great deal follows. First\, the representation reproduces signature biological phenomena: multi-scale place fields that mirror the hippocampal dorsoventral gradient\, theta phase precession as an angular sweep in representational geometry (angle–phase duality)\, and contextual remapping. Second\, and more consequentially\, the resulting cognitive map is proximity-preserving — Euclidean distance in embedding space monotonically tracks graph distance in the environment — so path planning reduces to following the gradient of the learned embedding\, with no value iteration\, no explicit map reconstruction\, and no learned optimal policy. The underlying one-step transition is just random exploration; optimal trajectories arise from inference on the multi-scale kernel. I will argue that this turns place cells from a phenomenological model of space into a planning-centric world model: a single likelihood objective trains the kernel\, and planning\, goal-reaching\, and re-routing under detours or shortcuts all reduce to gradient queries against the learned geometry. I will close by briefly contrasting this proposal with prevailing world models in machine learning — Vision–Language–Action policies\, model-predictive control\, and latent-dynamics models— to highlight what is distinctive about a planning-ready cognitive map built from random exploration alone. \nBio: Deqian Kong is a PhD candidate in Statistics and Data Science at UCLA\, advised by Prof. Ying Nian Wu\, and a student researcher at Google DeepMind. His research develops generative models — latent-variable models\, energy-based models\, and language models — with applications in reasoning\, robotic planning\, drug discovery\, and representational models of spatial navigation. His work has appeared at NeurIPS\, ICML\, ICLR\, ICCV\, UAI\, and CoRL\, with spotlight presentations at NeurIPS 2024 and CoRL 2025. He has previously held research positions at Lambda\, Amazon\, and BioMap Research. \nHosted by: Statistics Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-from-random-walks-to-planning-ready-world-models-a-normative-model-of-place-cells/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:International Grad End-of-Year Celebration
DESCRIPTION:What a remarkable year it has been for our international graduate community! To celebrate your hard work and achievements\, ISSP and the International Grad Peer Mentors invite you to join us for one final gathering before the academic year concludes. \nStop by to enjoy a catered lunch from Fusion Fare\, connect with fellow peers\, and unwind in a relaxed atmosphere. \nDate: Monday\, June 1\nTime: 16:00 – 18:00 (4:00 – 6:00 PM)\nLocation: Graduate Student Commons\n* vegan and gluten-free options will be available*\n\nRSVP here to let us know you’re interested\, and we’ll send a calendar invite to remind you.\n\nThis event is hosted by the International Grad Peer Mentors in International Student Services and Programming (ISSP). If you have any questions\, please contact us at iprogramming@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/international-grad-end-of-year-celebration/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, 420 Hagar Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:UCSC MEIP XXIII\, May 29\, 30\, and 31st\, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center-Performances in French\, Japanese and Spanish. FREE-ALL WELCOME
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Free Performance Miriam Ellis International Playhouse \n  \nUCSC – STEVENSON EVENT CENTER (Stevenson College) \n  \nMEIP XXII \nMay 29\, 30\, and 31st\, at 7:00 PM \nStevenson Event Center at UCSC \n  \nFREE STAGE PERFORMANCES IN FRENCH\, JAPANESE\, AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH TITLES \nFROM STUDENTS OF UCSC! \nFor its 23rd season\, the Miriam Ellis International Playhouse will present fully-staged performances in French\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. \nFrench: Dur dur la torture (Pure Torture)\, written by the students\, directed by Renée Cailloux. \nJapanese: “きぼうのうた” (Song of Hope)\, directed by Naoko Yamamoto. \nSpanish: “Noble campaña” (A Lofty Cause)\, Based on a short story by Gregorio López y Fuentes directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles and Sandra Malone. \nEvent Location: Stevenson Event Center\, UCSC – FREE \nFor more information\, contact Renée Cailloux at meip@ucsc.edu
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-meip-xxiii-may-29-30-and-31st-at-700-pm-in-the-stevenson-event-center-performances-in-french-japanese-and-spanish-free-all-welcome/2026-06-01/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center\, Stevenson Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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