Seminars

Name: Statistics Seminar: Randomization Posteriors and Generalized Bayesian Inference
Start: 2026-11-23T16:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-11-23T17:00:00-08:00
Location: Jack Baskin Engineering

September 2026
ECE 290 Seminar: “Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5, 10, 20 Years?”

September 28 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am

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

Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials Description: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing and transmission are being further accelerated by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The adoption of AI continues to expand at an unprecedented pace, […]
Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes

September 28 @ 4:00 pm

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

Presenter: Parul Patil, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Description: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as they estimate a latent, non-constant variance. However, existing hetGP implementations are unable to deal with large simulation campaigns and use point-estimates for all unknown quantities, […]
October 2026
BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas; and Speaker Theo Kell

October 1 @ 11:40 am – 1:15 pm

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity Presenter 1: Julian Lucas, Graduate Student in Miga Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz Description: Centromeres are essential for […]
ECE 290 Seminar: “Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors”

October 5 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am

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

Presented by: Young Suh Song, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University Description: “The rapid growth of information technology (IT) has led to remarkable progress in recent semiconductor technology. Transistors have become smaller […]
CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

October 5 @ 12:00 pm – 1:35 pm

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

Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Description: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, […]
Statistics Seminar: Spatially Varying Gene Regulatory Networks via Bayesian Nonparametric Covariate-Dependent Directed Cyclic Graphical Models

October 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Trisha Dawn, UC Santa Cruz Description: Spatial transcriptomics technologies enable measurement of gene expression with spatial context, providing opportunities to understand how gene regulatory networks (GRNs) vary across tissue […]
BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Erich Weiler, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer

October 8 @ 11:40 am – 1:15 pm

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Welcome to the second week of our BME 280B seminar series, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology, and bioinformatics. Open to all, food will be […]
ECE 290 Seminar: “Photon Counting Detectors for X-Ray Imaging”

October 12 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am

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

Presented by: Jin Zhang, Chief Engineer @ iRay Group Description: “Photon-counting detectors measure individual X-ray interactions, enabling fine spatial sampling and energy-resolved imaging. This seminar connects semiconductor signal formation and readout electronics […]
Statistics Seminar: Advancing Science on the Sea and Stars with Modern Statistical Techniques

October 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor, UC Santa Cruz Description: I will present two current and challenging research problems from the domains of astrophysics and oceanography which are leveraging standard Bayesian […]
AM Seminar: Analysis of Flagellar Gait Changes Across Fluid Viscosities

October 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Dr. Kelli Gutierrez, CSU Monterey Bay Description: Many microswimmers propel themselves using flagella, which are thin, threadlike filaments that beat in a periodic wavelike motion. The flagellar beat emerges […]
North Stars of Emancipation: Navigating Movements and Institutions to Change Food Systems

October 19 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

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

Dr. Antonio Roman-Alcalá has been participating in food and farming movements in California for over two decades. He’s founded urban farms, taught organic horticulture, and made documentary films about why […]

Free
November 2026
AM Seminar: Sliced Optimal Transport: From Acceleration to Bayesian Modeling

November 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Enter the speaker’s name, title, and institution at the top of the event Description: Optimal transport (OT) provides a principled way to match, compare, and interpolate distributions, but its […]
AM Seminar: Data Analysis Workflow from Low-Code Tools to Generative and Agentic AI

November 2 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Reza Fazel-Rezai, Senior Science and Education Application Engineer, MathWorks Description: Please join us to learn how to accelerate data analysis using a workflow that spans low-code tools, Generative AI, […]
AM Seminar: Enhanced Resolution Imaging in Strongly Scattering Media

November 9 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Chrysoula Tsogka, Professor, Applied Mathematics, UC Merced Description: In a strongly scattering medium, waves undergo multiple scattering that is usually seen as an obstacle to imaging. Time-reversal experiments show […]
Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal

November 16 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 more

UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range […]

Free
Statistics Seminar: Randomization Posteriors and Generalized Bayesian Inference

November 23 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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

Presenter: Edric Tam, Warren Alpert Fellow in AI and Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Description: A longstanding question in Bayesian analysis concerns the role of randomization. […]

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