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  • AM Seminar: The Evolving Landscape of AI for Science and Engineering: Bridging Simulation, Experiment, and Multi-scale Dynamics

    Presenter: Aditi Krishnapriyan, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Description: Recent advances in large-scale scientific datasets are creating new opportunities for machine learning (ML) methods to more effectively capture scientific phenomena with greater accuracy and reach. In this talk, I will discuss how these advances are both shifting ML design paradigms and enabling new scientific inquiries. This […]

  • CSE Colloquium – Improving Efficiency and Reliability of Foundation Models in Clinical AI

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

    Presenter: Vasiliki “Vicky” Bikia, PhD, Stanford Department of Biomedical Data Science and Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) Abstract: Deploying foundation models in health requires both computational efficiency and reliable generation. In this talk, I present two studies that address these dimensions separately but with a shared goal of real-world clinical deployment. The first study focuses on […]

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    BME 280B Seminar: Artificial intelligence systems to advance engineered T cell immunotherapy designs

    Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Zinaida Good, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology and the Division of Computational Medicine, Stanford University Description: T cell immunotherapies have reshaped the treatment landscape for hematologic malignancies and are rapidly extending to solid tumors, autoimmune diseases, and transplant tolerance. Yet durable benefit remains inconsistent, and toxicities remain clinically […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data

    Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data

    Presenter: Amanda Coston, Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley Description: Performance evaluation plays a central role in decisions about whether and how predictive algorithms should be deployed in high-stakes settings. Yet, in many real-world domains, evaluation is fundamentally difficult: the data available for assessment are often biased, incomplete, or noisy, and the act of deploying […]

  • AM Seminar: Solution Discovery in Fluids with High Precision Using Neural Networks

    Presenter: Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor, Stanford University Description: I will discuss examples utilizing neural networks (NNs) to find solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) that facilitate new discoveries. Despite being deemed universal function approximators, neural networks, in practice, struggle to fit functions with sufficient accuracy for rigorous analysis. Here, we developed multi-stage neural networks (Wang […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data

    Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data

    Presenter: Amanda Coston, Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley Description: Performance evaluation plays a central role in decisions about whether and how predictive algorithms should be deployed in high-stakes settings. Yet, in many real-world domains, evaluation is fundamentally difficult: the data available for assessment are often biased, incomplete, or noisy, and the act of deploying […]

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    CSE Colloquium: Co-Active AI-Assisted Programming

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

    Presenter: Nadia Polikarpova, UCSD Abstract: AI-assisted programming has rapidly moved from novelty to default. Today, most developers use AI coding tools, and increasingly rely on agentic systems capable of making multi-step […]

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    BME 280B Seminar: Modulating Insulin Receptor Through New Ligands

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Danny Chou, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Description: Since its discovery in 1921, insulin has been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs. From its amino acid sequencing to […]

  • Restoring Connections: Indigenous Environmental Governance and Eco-Cultural Revitalization along the Central California Coast

    Alexii Sigona from UC Davis In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link This presentation examines how California Tribal nations enact their place-based responsibilities as stewards of their ancestral lands and waters. Using ethnographic research with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band (AMTB) of central coastal California, I trace the processes of Tribal eco-cultural revitalization enacted through […]

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    AM Seminar: Flexible Filaments and Swimming Cups: Just Go with the Flow

    Presenter: Lisa Fauci, Professor, Tulane University Description: The motion of waving or rotating filaments in a fluid environment is a common element in many biological and engineered systems. Examples at the microscale include chains of diatoms moving in the ocean, flagella of individual cells comprising multicellular colonies, as well as engineered nanorobots designed to deliver […]

  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the first talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Fulbright Fellow Dr. Randi Solhjell. Her talk, “Managing a Fishy Business: Norway’s foreign aid and its impact on global fisheries governance” will discuss how Norwegian actors shape global fisheries policy through diplomacy, regulatory innovation and engagement in international institutions such as the UN FAO. She will also discuss how she studies fisheries from a social/political science lens. Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.

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    CSE Colloquium – Messages from across the event horizon:  AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)

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

    Presenter: Christopher Fletcher, UC Berkeley Abstract: It is difficult to escape the hype of agentic coding.  Is the hype real?  Are we still living in ~Summer 2025 — when AI coding would accomplish little more than upset its human supervisor?  Or has a level shift in technology finally arrived? In this talk I will argue the latter.  I will […]

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  • BME 280B Seminar: Small changes, Big consequences: Modulators of Alphavirus Assembly

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

    Presenter: Dr. Suchetana (Tuli) Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Indiana University Description: N/A Bio: Suchetana “Tuli” Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received her B.A. in chemistry from DePauw University and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Following her doctoral studies, Mukhopadhyay conducted postdoctoral […]

  • BME 80G Seminar: To Infinity and Beyond? Ethical, legal, and social issues of human research in space”

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Vaso Rahimzadeh, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Description: As humans venture farther into outer space, new scientific discovery awaits including in genomics; but so do new ethical dilemmas.  Who bears the risks (and rewards) of space exploration and how should humanity ethically expand beyond our planet? This session will have students think critically […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Some Recent Results on Transfer Learning

    Presenter: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Description: In the first part of the talk, I will introduce TRansfer leArning via guideD horseshoE prioR (TRADER), […]

  • Rethinking Stemflow: Distribution, Infiltration, and Isotopic Insights in Forests

    Juan Andres Pinos from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link Stemflow represents a spatially concentrated and chemically enriched flux of intercepted precipitation that delivers water and solutes to near‐stem soils. Conventional approaches neglect potential heterogeneity in stemflow redistribution aboveground and its subsurface infiltration pathways, introducing bias into forest […]

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    2026 Right Livelihood International Conference

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    The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners across continents, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes, the conference positions education as a democratic […]