What can you do with data?
Data Analysts Are Still in Demand As organizations across industries rely more on data-driven decision-making, skilled data analysts continue to be highly sought after. While the job market is more […]
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Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States
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SocDoc M.F.A. Thesis Screening
Landmark’s Del Mar TheatreThe Social Documentation M.F.A. Thesis Screening is a yearly event held by the Film and Digital Media Department. This event is part of the Social Documentation M.F.A. program, and involves second-year students presenting a 20-minute documentary film they have produced while in the program. Films are screened sequentially at the Del Mar Theater, with a […]
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Where Hardware Meets Intelligence
Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware Join Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an introduction to how AI is transforming the field. Learn how the Embedded Firmware Essentials course prepares you to develop low-level software, interface with hardware components, and build reliable real-time […]
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Tang, M. (STAT) – Bayesian Modeling and Scalable Inference for Count Time Series in Infectious Disease Surveillance
Hybrid EventReal-time monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks calls for statistical models that recover interpretable quantities such as the time-varying reproduction number from noisy count data, track posterior uncertainty, and run on time scales compatible with daily updates. Existing methods address these aims through separate model classes. Discretized Hawkes processes, Poisson autoregressions, and distributed lag models each […]
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Just-In-Time (all-majors) Virtual Career & Internship Fair
Virtual EventUndergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing careers in all industries are welcome to attend. Get the chance to meet recruiters from all industries/firms seeking to fill internship, full-time, and part-time roles. Connect virtually and take essential steps toward laying the foundation for your future career and potentially even land an interview! […]
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Carrión, H. (CSE) – Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Representation Learning and Understanding
Virtual EventAI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine, and particularly in dermatology, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones, body sites, and disease types, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce, demographically imbalanced, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet, which learns wound healing stages from […]
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Wang, Z. (CSE) – From Static Alignment to Adaptive Safety: Toward Reliable and Capable AI Systems
Virtual EventModern AI systems are rapidly moving beyond static text generation toward capable models and agents that reason, use tools, store memories, and update persistent state, yet safety methods still often assume a fixed model whose behavior can be controlled by output-level refusal. This leaves critical gaps in understanding why aligned models fail under adversarial pressure, […]
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Designing for Today’s Digital World
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesDesign digital experiences people love to use. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy, usability, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods, prototyping tools, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms. Speaker […]
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BME/Genomics Seminar: Supervised and Unsupervised DeepGene Finding and Genome Foundation Models
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Mario Stanke, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Greifswald Description: This talk will explore recent machine learning approaches for eukaryotic genome annotation. Our supervised ab initio deep gene finder, Tiberius, correctly predicts more than four times as many human protein-coding gene structures as its father, Augustus, and in some clades, it approaches the accuracy of […]
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Burbano, L. (CS) – Security of autonomous decision-making agents: From control systems to embodied AI
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventDue to their increasing complexity, autonomous decision-making agents rely on increasingly advanced algorithms, from classical control theory to reinforcement learning (RL) and, more recently, large vision-language models. While these algorithms help automate the decision-making in complex systems, they bring newer attack vulnerabilities that an adversary can exploit. In this dissertation, we study the security of […]
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UC Santa Cruz Premed Cohorts and DIY Info Session
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesJoin the UC Santa Cruz Premed Postbacc Program for an informative, live online session designed for students, parents, and anyone exploring pathways into medicine, public health, and other health professions. In this discussion, we’ll provide a comprehensive overview of premed and pre-health programs to help you understand your options and choose the path that best aligns with […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House
Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! Join the Pickwick Club for a series of discussions about ‘Bleak House.’
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From Diploma to Dollars: Money Matters for New Alumni
Life After Graduation Series Hosted by UC Davis, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. Join the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another session in the Life After Graduation Series, “From Diploma to Dollars: Money Matters for New Alumni,” on Tuesday, June 30 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). Graduation is behind you—now it’s […]
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First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CAFirst Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]
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Carrión, H. (CSE) – Deep Learning Algorithms for Medical Image Representation Learning and Understanding
Virtual EventAI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine, and particularly in dermatology, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones, body sites, and disease types, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce, demographically imbalanced, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet, which learns wound healing stages from […]
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Levine, R. (CSE) – Validating GPU Memory Consistency and Safety at Scale
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventGraphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become essential platforms for parallel computing, supporting applications far beyond graphics. Central to GPU programming models is its memory consistency specification (MCS), which defines the semantics of concurrent shared-memory operations and interacts with other language features to determine security guarantees such as memory safety. Understanding whether implementations conform to an […]
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Scott, J. (CSE) – Mechanistic Specialization Does Not Guarantee Performance: Evidence from Dual AttentionTransformers
Virtual EventDual Attention Transformers (DATs) extend decoder-only Transformers with a dedicated relational-attention stream, making them a natural architecture for abstract identity rules such asABA and ABB. Surprisingly, we find that comparably sized GPT-2 models outperform DATs on these tasks. We investigate this gap with two complementary mechanistic analyses. First, causal mediation analysis shows that DATs exhibit […]
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Kembay, A. (ECE) – Sparse and Continual Foundations for Adaptive General Intelligence
Hybrid EventWhile the human brain learns continually, mastering new tasks without forgetting the old and adapting to unfamiliar ones from context alone, modern neural networks still lack both. To bridge the gap between biological adaptivity and modern AI, we have established foundational work on sparsity as a computational principle at three levels of neural computation, through […]
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July Slugs and Steins with Assistant Professor Aide Macias-Munoz
Virtual EventUnlocking the blueprint for regeneration: Insights from Hydra Regeneration, the ability to heal and regrow lost body parts, varies across species, tissues, and even cell types. To harness regenerative ability for medicine, we need to understand the genetic mechanisms that are similar across regenerating species. My lab uses Hydra, a small freshwater relative of jellyfish, to investigate […]
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Calicchio, A. (BMEB) – Comparison of long-read sequencing and analysis methods for transcriptome analysis
Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin DriveHybrid EventAlternative splicing, the process generating different RNA isoforms from a single gene, is considered one of the main factors driving increased organism complexity in eukaryotes. Variations in isoform and gene expression produce the functional differences that give rise to different cell types and, in some cases, result in disease. Long-read RNA sequencing has transformed our […]