Week of Events
Monday, February 9, 2026
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Virtual EventFebruary 9, 2026Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders
Li, X. (CSE) – Compute-Efficient Scaling of Fully-Open Visual Encoders
Vision encoders have demonstrated significant performance gains in visual generation and multimodal reasoning. These improvements are primarily attributed to the scaling of data, model capacity, and compute. However, this progress […]
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
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February 11, 2026Centering the Experiences of Undocumented Transfer Students at HSIs: A Brown Bag Presentation by Valeria Alonso Blanco
Centering the Experiences of Undocumented Transfer Students at HSIs: A Brown Bag Presentation by Valeria Alonso Blanco
The Huerta Center is proud to present a brown bag presentation by Graduate Student Research Awardee Valeria Alonso Blanco. She will present on a qualitative study that explores how […]
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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Hybrid EventFebruary 12, 2026Sambamurthy, A. (AM) – Lazy Diffusion: Resolving Spectral Collapse in Generative Models for Turbulence
Sambamurthy, A. (AM) – Lazy Diffusion: Resolving Spectral Collapse in Generative Models for Turbulence
Diffusion-based generative models offer a principled framework for probabilistic forecasting, but we show they suffer from a fundamental spectral collapse when applied to turbulent flows. A Fourier-space analysis of the forward SDE reveals that the mode-wise signal-to-noise ratio decays monotonically in wavenumber for power-law spectra, rendering high-wavenumber content indistinguishable from noise. We reinterpret the noise […]
Friday, February 13, 2026
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Saturday, February 14, 2026
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Sunday, February 15, 2026
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