• CSE Colloquium – Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games

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

    Presenter: Arman Zharmagambetov, Meta Abstract: Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment. Current approaches rely on sequential adversarial training: […]

    Free
  • FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Lisa Uttal

    Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us for the final talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Lisa Uttal giving her talk, “Science Unlocked: Translating Research into Public Stewardship”.

    Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.

  • BME 280B Seminar: 4th Year Grad Talks

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

    Please join us for our BME 280B seminar series Thursday (5/28/26) in person at Biomed 200. The event will run from 11:40 AM to 1:15 PM and feature our 4th year grad talks. 11:40AM – 11:50AM: Ivana Pacar 11:53AM – 12:03PM: Jesus Gonzalez Ferrer 12:06PM – 12:16PM: Connor Mattingly 12:19PM – 12:29PM: Samira Vera 12:32PM – 12:42PM: Nick Chu 12:45PM […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip

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

    Presenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, UC Santa Cruz   Description: Recently, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development, thus […]

  • AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism

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

    Presenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When […]

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

    Presenter: Sai Teja Peddinti, Google Abstract: As the digital landscape expands, traditional models of threat mitigation and user support are failing to keep pace with the unprecedented security, privacy, and […]

    Free
  • Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    Please join us on June 3rd for the final Anthropology Colloquium of 25-26, “Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou,” featuring Nellie Chu of Duke Kunshan University (UCSC PhD ’14).

  • BME 280B Seminar: Accelerating the diagnosis of rare diseases using multi-omics

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

    Presenter: Stephen Montgomery, Endowed Professor of Pathology, Genetics, Biomedical Data Science, Computer Science, Stanford University   Description: N/A   Bio: Stephen Montgomery is an Endowed Professor of Pathology, Genetics, Biomedical […]