Week of Events
Monday, June 1, 2026
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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Hybrid EventJune 2, 2026Sheaves, T. (CSE) – Timing Side-Channels in Commercial ReRAM: Toward ReRAM Pentimenti
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June 2, 2026Figuerres, S. (ECE) – Ion Transport Mechanisms for Bioelectronics
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Hybrid EventJune 2, 2026Bose, S. (ECE) – Learning-Augmented Optimization, Control, and Inference in Modern Power Systems
Sheaves, T. (CSE) – Timing Side-Channels in Commercial ReRAM: Toward ReRAM Pentimenti
Recently, a class of non-invasive hardware side-channel attacks has been discovered in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These attacks extract remnants of prior users’ activity that persist as transistor defect states within reconfigurable routing resources. These remnants are known as FPGA Pentimenti. Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) is a compelling candidate for pentimenti-like attacks beyond FPGAs. However, […]
Figuerres, S. (ECE) – Ion Transport Mechanisms for Bioelectronics
Ion transfer as the movement of charged species across spaces and interfaces is the basis of signaling in nearly all biological systems. My research is grounded in the idea that precise control over ion transfer enables direct manipulation of biological function. Specifically, I focus on how ion transport can be engineered to regulate both collective […]
Bose, S. (ECE) – Learning-Augmented Optimization, Control, and Inference in Modern Power Systems
The electric grid is essential to modern society, and recent developments such as renewable energy sources (RESs), battery energy storage systems (ESSs), and microgrids (MGs) have necessitated novel computational methods […]
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
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Hybrid EventJune 3, 2026Morey, C. (BMEB) – Innovations in Interdependence: Genomic and Functional Evolution in Invertebrates and Their Intracellular Symbionts
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Featured June 3, 2026Featured 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Morey, C. (BMEB) – Innovations in Interdependence: Genomic and Functional Evolution in Invertebrates and Their Intracellular Symbionts
Intracellular symbionts are microorganisms, such as bacteria, that live within host cells. These associations are widespread throughout the invertebrate tree of life, and can perform a diversity of key metabolic, […]
22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium
This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Enrolled graduate students will present either a poster, talk, or mixed media presentation. Judges will select and award a top prize for each academic division. This event is free and open to the public. Location : Science Hill Research talks […]
Thursday, June 4, 2026
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Virtual EventJune 4, 2026Xie, Y. (CM) – Crop Circles of Play: Forces and Formation in the Dyadic Magic Circle
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Hybrid EventJune 4, 2026Kordonowy, S. (CS) – The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation
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Hybrid EventJune 4, 2026Okamoto, F. (BMEB) – Improving read-to-pangenome alignment in complicated genomic regions
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Hybrid EventJune 4, 2026Lietz, R. (CM) – Reflecting on Failure: Designing and Evaluating Archetype Profiles as a Tool for Self-Reflection
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Hybrid EventJune 4, 2026Imlau Dagostini, J. (CSE) – Intent-Driven Orchestration for Scientific Computing
Xie, Y. (CM) – Crop Circles of Play: Forces and Formation in the Dyadic Magic Circle
Cooperative two-player play produces distinctive social experiences between players: intimacy, trust, cooperation, communitas. Since Huizinga, the frame within which these experiences arise has been called the Magic Circle: a temporarily-set-apart […]
Kordonowy, S. (CS) – The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation
As quantum computing transitions from theory to practice, understanding which algorithms suit near-term devices becomes critical. Current quantum computers are severely constrained by limited qubit counts, short coherence times, and […]
Okamoto, F. (BMEB) – Improving read-to-pangenome alignment in complicated genomic regions
Many genetics pipelines start by aligning sequencing reads to a reference genome. Aligners attempt to find the position in the reference sequence which best matches the read sequence, but this […]
Lietz, R. (CM) – Reflecting on Failure: Designing and Evaluating Archetype Profiles as a Tool for Self-Reflection
Self-reflection holds significant potential for learning, behavior change, and emotional processing, yet designing technologies that effectively support it remains challenging, particularly when reflection involves difficult experiences such as failure. Most current technologies avoid negative experiences altogether, leaving users without support at precisely the moments when reflection could be most valuable. This dissertation investigates how technology […]
Imlau Dagostini, J. (CSE) – Intent-Driven Orchestration for Scientific Computing
The growing complexity of high-performance computing (HPC) systems poses a fundamental challenge for domain scientists, whose primary objective is to obtain scientifically valid results rather than to optimize resource utilization. Modern leadership-class facilities combine heterogeneous CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators across systems that simultaneously support traditional scientific simulations and AI-driven workloads. This creates a vast, […]
Friday, June 5, 2026
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Hybrid EventJune 5, 2026Chen, Z. (CSE) – GPU Subgroup Semantics for Portable High-Performance Kernels
Chen, Z. (CSE) – GPU Subgroup Semantics for Portable High-Performance Kernels
Modern high-performance GPU kernels increasingly rely on subgroup-level execution, including subgroup-level communication, subgroup operations, and matrix operations. These features are essential for workloads such as matrix multiplication and FlashAttention, but their language-level guarantees remain difficult to reason about. Existing programming models often leave unclear which threads participate in subgroup operations, when subgroup threads are required […]
Saturday, June 6, 2026
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Sunday, June 7, 2026
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