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  • ECE 290 Seminar: Biohybrid Electronics Using Extracellular Electron Transfer

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

    Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and computing applications. However, it has been challenging to develop robust and programmable interfaces between living systems and electronic components. Addressing this challenge, our lab employs […]

  • AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware   Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton decomposition—to efficiently represent low-rank structures in kinetic solutions. The method dynamically adapts the rank of the solution while ensuring numerical stability through singular value truncation […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Distance-to-set regularization for inference under constraints

    Presenter: Jason Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Description: We consider a penalty framework based on regularizing the squared distance to set-based constraints for several core statistical tasks. These distance-to-set penalties provide a simple and flexible way to cast constrained optimization problems in more tractable unconstrained forms. We will see that they often avoid […]

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    Joshua McFadden, Six Seasons of Pasta

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden for a discussion and signing of his highly anticipated new cookbook Six Seasons of Pasta. In his follow-up to Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, McFadden teaches home cooks how to use storebought dried pasta to create seasonal, restaurant-quality dishes at home. Get tickets

    $48
  • CSE Colloquium - The C++11 Concurrency Memory Model: Remaining Challenges

    CSE Colloquium – The C++11 Concurrency Memory Model: Remaining Challenges

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

    Presenter: Hans Boehm, Google Abstract: C++11 extended the language to include threads, defining a concurrency memory model to specify the semantics of shared variables, including “atomic” variables that can be accessed without mutual exclusion. Although this followed Posix threads by more than a decade, and the revision of the Java memory model by a few […]

  • Enoughness in the Age of Comparison, Feminine person in a sweatshirt with headphones

    Enoughness in the Age of Comparison

    What does “enough” look like in your life—and who gets to decide? In a world that constantly pushes us to do, earn, and be more, this webinar invites you to […]

    Free
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    Penumbra de la memoria: Brown Bag with Maya Scherr-Willson

    Huerta Center Conference Room (Casa Latina) 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA

    During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra […]

  • BME 280B Seminar: Computational Models of Biological Systems

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica Description: Computational models are roughly categorized into two types: describing the patterns of the phenomenon or data […]

  • Elevator Pitch Competition

    Are you ready to showcase your communication and persuasion skills? We’re excited to invite you to our Elevator Pitch Competition! Snacks provided!

    Deliver a 60-second pitch that wows the judges to compete for amazing prizes!

    Prizes: $100 Amazon Gift Card and company swag!

  • A Conversation on Black Ecologies

    Rachel Carson College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the Sociology Department together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES), The Black Geographies Lab, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in the Rachel Carson College Red Room, to welcome speakers Tianna Bruno and Justin Hosbey (UC Berkeley) for a conversation on Black Ecologies.

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    Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments

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

    Speaker: Yiannis Kantaros, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering at WashU in St. Louis. Title: Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments. Time: Thursday, Oct 23rd, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm. Location: E2-553 or Zoom. Abstract: Designing robots that navigate unfamiliar environments to execute natural language (NL) commands is a cornerstone of advanced embodied intelligence. […]

  • Mary Roach – Replaceable You

    London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United States

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their […]

  • Science & Justice Training Program Informational Meeting

    Virtual Event

    On Friday, October 24th from 2-3:00pm, on Zoom, join the Science & Justice Research Center for an Informational Meeting on our internationally recognized interdisciplinary Graduate Training and Certificate Program.

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    Campus Debt is a Labor Issue

    Rachel Carson College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the Center for Labor and Community on Friday, October 24, from 2-4pm at the Rachel Carson Red Room for a conversation on campus debt, austerity, and labor organizing in higher education. Drawing from his book, Lend and Rule: Fighting Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (2024), Jason Wozniak, of the Debt Collective and the Coalition […]

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  • Elevate Your Interviews: Strategies for Success

    Elevate Your Interviews: Strategies for Success

    Job interviews can be challenging, even for seasoned professionals. Preparation and practice are key. This one-day workshop for the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter, led by communications coach Karen Schiff, will teach you the skills you need to ace your next interview. Throughout the day, you’ll learn how to craft your responses, both the organization and […]

    $50

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Performance Bounds and Bottlenecks for Neuromorphic ML Accelerators

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

    Presenter: Jason Yik, PhD Candidate, Harvard SEAS Description: Recent research on neuromorphic accelerators has investigated their efficiency and performance benefits for machine learning (ML) inference at the edge. This talk will focus on the performance implications of the fully-on-chip, manycore-distributed memory architecture used by current neuromorphic accelerators. In conventional architectures, the roofline model is a […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Sampling Depth Trade-Off in Function Estimation Under a Two-Level Design

    Presenter: Akira Horiguchi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Description: Many modern statistical applications involve a two-level sampling scheme that first samples subjects from a population and then samples observations on each subject. These schemes often are designed to learn both the population-level functional structures shared by the subjects and the functional characteristics specific […]