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  • ECE Seminar: Tactile sensing: At the boundary between mechanical and computational intelligence in robotic grippers

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Dr. Hannah Stuart, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley Description: Robot grippers typically include mechanical intelligence (e.g., underactuation, compliance) or computational intelligence (e.g., fully actuated with a wide array of sensors). Next generation grippers and hands will require both intelligences to work in concert across applications with […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Boosting Biomedical Imaging Analysis via Distributed Functional Regression and Synthetic Surrogates

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Guannan Wang, Associate Professor, The College of William & Mary Description: Generative AI has emerged as a powerful tool for synthesizing biomedical images, offering new solutions to challenges such as data scarcity, privacy constraints, and modality imbalance. However, the reliable use of synthetic images in scientific analysis requires principled statistical frameworks that can assess […]

  • AM Seminar: Probing Forced Responses and Causality in Data-Driven Climate Emulators: Conceptual Limitations and the Role of Reduced-Order Models

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Fabrizio Falasca, New York University Description: A central challenge in climate science and applied mathematics is developing data-driven models of multiscale systems that capture both stationary statistics and responses to external perturbations. Current neural climate emulators aim to resolve the atmosphere–ocean system in all its complexity but often struggle to reproduce forced responses, limiting […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Inferring Unobserved Trajectories from Multiple Temporal Snapshots

    Hybrid 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 […]

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    BME 280B Seminar: Satellite repeats encode megabase-scale transcription factor hubs

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Matt Franklin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University Description: Eukaryotic genomes contain large stretches of repetitive DNA called satellite DNA, often found near centromeres and ribosomal DNA regions. In humans, alpha […]

  • Allen van Gelder Memorial

    University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    You are cordially invited to an event celebrating the life and research legacy of Allen van Gelder, who passed away in April 2025 after 37 years of dedicated service to the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC Santa Cruz. Thursday, January 29, 2025 Reception begins 1pm, Program begins 1:30pm Alumni Room, University Center, UC […]

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    Unlock Your Career: 10 Essential Strategies for Success in an AI-Driven World

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Are you ready to thrive in today’s fast-moving professional world — especially in one shaped by innovation, technology, and AI?  Success in today’s AI-driven economy requires more than technical skills—it […]

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    Pesticide Impacts in and around Monterey Bay lecture

    Intersections of Climate Change
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    The short- and long-term health impacts of pesticide use for local communities on land as well as in the ocean are addressed in a conversation with Yanely Martinez, Katherine Gabriel-Cox, Adam Scow and Logan Pallin. This event is presented as part of as part of the Intersections of Climate Change series, and is organized with […]

    FREE and open to the public
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    AI Workshop Series: AI in the Semiconductor Industry

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the semiconductor industry—from design to manufacturing. In this AI workshop, students will examine how AI is being applied to chip design, Electronic Design Automation […]

    $145

  • Connect To Your Roots: BIPOC Herbalism

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The People of Color Sustainability Collective invites you to Connect To Your Roots! We will be sharing and connecting with generational knowledge and empowering BIPOC to take control of their own food systems, particularly medicinal herbs, through a variety of educational hands-on activities. We aim for this event to enhance BIPOC visibility on campus, and […]

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    ECE Seminar: Advanced Packaging as the Engine of the AI Systems Era

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Tolga Acikalin, System and Package Architect, Lumilens Description: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning—most notably recent breakthroughs in large language models—is reshaping the trajectory of the […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning from a Nonlinear Time Series Perspective

    Hybrid Event

    Presenter: Jiaqi Li, William H. Kruskal Instructor, University of Chicago Description:Modern machine learning (ML) algorithms achieve remarkable empirical success, yet providing rigorous statistical guarantees remains a major challenge, particularly in distributional theory and online inference methods. In this talk, we will introduce a novel framework to provide mathematical foundations for ML by bringing powerful tools […]

  • AM Seminar: Are Graph Learning Methods Actually Learning?

    Presenter: Seshadhri Comandur, Professor of Computer Science, UCSC Description: There has been a lot of literature on graph machine learning over the past few years, and a bewildering array of new methods. This talk is based on a series of results making a provocative argument. Maybe many graph machine learning methods are not really that […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Statistical Inference for Multi-Modality Data in the AI Era

    Hybrid Event

    Presenter: Qi Xu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University Description: Multi-modality data are increasingly common across science medicine and technology, such as imaging, text, sensors, and genomics. These modalities are often high dimensional or unstructured and naturally exhibit blockwise (nonmonotone) missingness where different samples observe different subsets of modalities. Such […]

  • VMCC Series: Yiman Wang

    Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Yiman Wang lecture

    FREE and open to the public

  • Kraw Lecture: Learning Earth’s Biodiversity via Space and eDNA

    3175 Bowers Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95054 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    The California DNA Program (CALeDNA), launched from the University of California in 2017, has been tackling the massive disconnection in scales of measuring nature from satellite-based sensing down to DNA […]

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    Regulatory Affairs Info Session

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Lead regulatory strategy in the evolving medical device industry. As global regulations become increasingly complex, professionals who can navigate FDA, EU, and international requirements are in high demand. Learn how […]