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SUMMARY:June Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Andrew Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Opportunities to enhance groundwater recharge with net metering and levee setbacks\nAs climate change\, population growth\, and changing land use put increasing pressure on groundwater supplies\, communities are searching for smarter and more sustainable ways to manage water. One promising approach is “managed recharge” — guiding stormwater and excess surface water back into underground aquifers to replenish vital water reserves.\n\nIn this talk\, we’ll explore how managed recharge works\, why it matters\, and how it can benefit communities\, agriculture\, ecosystems\, and long-term water resilience. We’ll look at how heavy rain events and stormwater runoff — often viewed as problems — can become valuable opportunities to restore groundwater supplies when managed effectively and responsibly. \nThe talk will also highlight emerging research on where and how recharge projects can succeed without causing unintended environmental impacts\, along with a new incentive program designed to support landowners and tenants who help maintain these systems on their properties. We’ll consider how groundwater recharge efforts can connect with flood-risk reduction and river restoration strategies\, creating multi-benefit solutions for the future of water management. \n\nREGISTER
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/june-slugs-and-steins-with-professor-andrew-fisher/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:AI Trends in Project Management
DESCRIPTION:Build the skills organizations need most\nSkilled project and program managers remain in demand across many industries as organizations seek professionals who can plan strategically\, manage risks\, and deliver results on time and on budget. \nLearn what drives successful teams and projects\nDuring this interactive online session\, you’ll learn about key roles in project and program management and the essential skills—leadership\, communication\, and Agile practices—that help professionals stand out in today’s fast-moving workplace. \nYour speakers\nTim Bombosch and Bhawna Dua of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Project and Program Management program share their industry perspectives and highlight program courses that are designed to build practical project leadership\, communication\, and career advancement skills. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ai-trends-in-project-management/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year\, the interests of the tour guide\, and the people who join in. For example\, you might learn about the birds and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-06-06/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Science in the Neighborhood: The earthquake problem
DESCRIPTION:Science In the Neighborhood\nA public lecture series hosted quarterly by the UC Santa Cruz Science Division \nThe earthquake problem\nPresentation by Emily Brodsky\, Professor\, UC Santa Cruz\nQ&A with Stefano Profumo\, Associate Dean of Science\, UC Santa Cruz \nRegister here. \nEarthquake prediction has simultaneously remained both the central\, unsolved problem in seismology and the issue that communities care about most—especially here in Northern California. Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Emily Brodsky will discuss what we do and do not know about when earthquakes will happen. She will explain what we understand about the basic mechanics of faults and how drilling into faults has transformed our understanding of how earthquakes happen. Her talk will also explore how the machine learning revolution is powering a transformation in forecasting aftershocks\, as well as look ahead toward the kind of instrumentation and approaches that offer the most promise for the next big advances. \nThe event is in-person only. Register here. \nFriday\, June 5\, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 p.m.\nCoastal Biology Building. Rm. 110\nUC Santa Cruz Coastal Campus\n130 McAllister Way\nSanta Cruz\, CA 95060 \nThe screenshot below shows where to find the entrance of the Coastal Biology Building.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/science-in-the-neighborhood-the-earthquake-problem/
LOCATION:Coastal Biology Building\, 130 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:BME80G Seminar – Sheril Kirshenbaum\, "Science in Policymaking"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: Following this lecture\, the Genomics Institute’s Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Committee will host a reception on the Baskin Engineering Lanai with Dr. Kirshenbaum where we can continue the discussion on how to effectively engage lawmakers and the public to value and support genomic science. \nPresenter: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum \nAbstract: Science shapes our world\, but meaningful policy engagement and understanding of research and innovation are critical if new advances are to reach their full potential. Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum will share her research on science in policymaking and reflect on her experiences serving as a science advisor in Congress. The talk will explore effective strategies for engaging policymakers and staff\, countering misinformation\, promoting evidence-based decision-making\, and strengthening the role of science in the policy process. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning scientist and author in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University\, and an assistant professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Her research explores how senior policymakers in the U.S. government make decisions about science and she has worked in the U.S. Senate with Senator Gary Peters (MI) and Bill Nelson (FL). She also hosts and writes the PBS series Serving Up Science with WKAR about the global food system and its impact on the environment and our health. Kirshenbaum is the author of The Science of Kissing and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (with Chris Mooney)\, and co-founded the NGO Science Debate. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme80g-seminar-sheril-kirshenbaum-science-in-policymaking/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Chen\, Z. (CSE) - GPU Subgroup Semantics for Portable High-Performance Kernels
DESCRIPTION: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 to execute together\, and what synchronization is implied by subgroup-level operations. This ambiguity becomes especially important in portable GPU programming\, where the same kernel may run across devices with different subgroup sizes\, compiler stacks\, browser backends\, and hardware execution behavior. \nMy research studies how precise subgroup semantics can support portable and correct high-performance GPU kernels. SIMT-Step\, my main completed work\, develops a formal and flexible operational semantics for GPU subgroup execution. It introduces dynamic blocks to specify converged subgroup execution and subgroup-operation participation\, classifies instructions as independent\, synchronous\, or collective to express a spectrum of candidate subgroup semantics\, and validates these models through a TLA+ implementation and an empirical fuzzing study across real GPUs. My systems work studies how subgroup-dependent kernels behave in practice\, including WebGPU FlashAttention kernels for LLM inference\, tunable WebGPU kernels for performance portability\, and Vulkan-based execution for heterogeneous SoCs. Building on these foundations\, my proposed verification work develops data-race-free checking techniques for ML kernels that rely on subgroup operations and matrix operations. Together\, these projects aim to clarify the execution guarantees that optimized GPU kernels can rely on and to support portable GPU programming systems whose performance and correctness can be reasoned about across diverse hardware. \nEvent Host: Zheyuan Chen\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Tyler Sorensen \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92175288480?pwd=jGajtqerVbKuW1FPNr3awqOYoxATsp.1&jst=3 \nPasscode: 693354
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/chen-z-cse-gpu-subgroup-semantics-for-portable-high-performance-kernels/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260604T180000
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SUMMARY:Business Administration in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to build practical leadership\, finance\, marketing\, and management skills for today’s dynamic business environment. \nReynold Lewke\, M.S.\, M.B.A\, LLB\, a corporate attorney\, litigator\, author\, and business advisor\, will explore how AI is reshaping business operations\, decision-making\, and strategy\, and how emerging technologies are being integrated across the field. Attendees will gain insight into upcoming courses\, evolving career pathways\, and the skills professionals need to drive performance and adapt in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. \nKeep learning this summer\n\nSupply Chain Operations Management | May 30\nBusiness Communications | June 17\nFinance I\, Fundamentals | June 22\nFinance for the Business Professional | July 9\nManaging Global Supply Chains | Aug. 8\n\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup. \nClaim your seat!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/business-administration-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED—Celebrating Agroecology: A book talk with Author Bruce H. Jennings and Mayor Fred Keeley
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed. \nJoin us for a conversation with Author Bruce H. Jennings and Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley about Jennings’ new book\, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas. \nRSVP \nAbout the book\nAs the climate crisis becomes more urgent and issues of social inequality intensify\, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas shows how agroecology offers hope rooted in a deeper understanding of ecology\, society\, and collective struggle. In the 1940s\, a US-backed campaign spread industrial agriculture across the Americas\, dismantling traditional farming systems that had sustained campesino communities for generations. The result was ecological damage\, cultural loss\, and deepened inequality. Amid this devastation\, a group of Latin American scientists chose another path. Working alongside farmers\, Indigenous communities\, and social movements\, they helped shape a new vision — agroecology: a science grounded in ecology\, cultural respect\, and political commitment to those most marginalized. Revolutionary Science tells their story and asks a vital question: Can agroecology thrive as both a science and a movement strong enough to advance livelihood for millions of campesinos and many others across the Americas?
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-agroecology-a-book-talk-with-author-bruce-h-jennings-and-mayor-fred-keeley/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Imlau Dagostini\, J. (CSE) - Intent-Driven Orchestration for Scientific Computing
DESCRIPTION: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\, machine-dependent configuration space that even experienced systems researchers find difficult to navigate. In practice\, users must explicitly specify resources\, node counts\, and walltime estimates before submitting jobs to an orchestrator\, resulting in iterative trial-and-error that wastes both human effort and compute resources. \nThis thesis proposes an intent-driven orchestration middleware for scientific computing\, in which domain scientists express high-level computational goals rather than low-level resource parameters\, and the system assumes responsibility for identifying configurations that satisfy those goals efficiently. This thesis proposal builds on a completed study of the computational performance of pangenome mapping\, a representative workload of data-intensive pipelines increasingly common in modern science. We demonstrate that tailoring tuning parameters to specific inputs and architectures yields significant performance improvements while exposing the depth of the configuration search problem that motivates this thesis. We then present an in-progress user-aware\, intent-driven middleware that uses surrogate models to aid this exploration and map high-level goals to suitable configurations. We end this presentation by proposing a cluster-aware orchestrator that enables existing HPC resource managers to support intent-aware decision-making. \nEvent Host: Jessica Imlau Dagostini\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Abel Souza \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93851280425?pwd=v4ONi9N5UlfZmsMqiI4gSkxFXe0oaX.1 \nPasscode: 835985 \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/imlau-dagostini-j-cse-intent-driven-orchestration-for-scientific-computing/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Lietz\, R. (CM) - Reflecting on Failure: Designing and Evaluating Archetype Profiles as a Tool for Self-Reflection
DESCRIPTION: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.\nThis dissertation investigates how technology can better support self-reflection through three mixed-methods studies. The first examines how people experience and reflect on failure\, revealing how identity\, self-blame\, and emotional avoidance create barriers to productive reflection. These findings informed an iterative design process through which archetype profiles emerged as a promising reflective format. The second study evaluated archetype profiles against standard graph-based visualizations\, finding that the quiz-profile sequence effectively scaffolded reflection by supporting emotional re-engagement followed by cognitive reframing. The third study extended this work into a collaborative context\, examining archetype profiles derived from sleep tracking data as shareable artifacts for social reflection. Across these studies\, this dissertation contributes empirical insights into reflection on failure and design knowledge about archetype profiles as a reflective format. \nEvent Host: Rebecca Lietz\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computational Media \nAdvisor: Steve Whittaker \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/7855885795?pwd=RS9mWXhQOXNyNmRVSzQrd1MzamJVQT09 \nPasscode: 172404
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/lietz-r-cm-reflecting-on-failure-designing-and-evaluating-archetype-profiles-as-a-tool-for-self-reflection/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Accelerating the diagnosis of rare diseases using multi-omics
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Stephen Montgomery\, Endowed Professor of Pathology\, Genetics\, Biomedical Data Science\, Computer Science\, Stanford University \n  \nDescription: N/A \n  \nBio: Stephen Montgomery is an Endowed Professor of Pathology\, Genetics\, Biomedical Data Science and\, by courtesy\, Computer Science at Stanford University. He has trained in multiple countries including Canada\, Germany\, England\, and Switzerland. He is best known for his work mapping the effects of genetic variation to gene expression and authored the first publications that compared whole genomes and transcriptome data within a human population and pioneered the use of molecular outliers to identify impactful rare variants (Montgomery et al\, 2010\, Montgomery et al\, 2011). \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-accelerating-the-diagnosis-of-rare-diseases-using-multi-omics/
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences\, Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Okamoto\, F. (BMEB) - Improving read-to-pangenome alignment in complicated genomic regions
DESCRIPTION: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 breaks down when the reads come from a sample with variation relative to the reference. A proposed alternative\, pangenome graphs\, is supposed to fix such “reference bias” by including known variation within the reference itself. Yet read alignment is still difficult in graph regions featuring certain complex variation. I will address specific known limitations of pangenome read alignment by developing better methods to align reads to pangenomes (1) in centromeres\, (2) in regions with cycles\, (3) when a “split”/supplementary alignment is required\, and (4) for RNA-seq reads. \nEvent Host: Faith Okamoto\, Ph.D. Student\, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics \nAdvisor: Benedict Paten \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/3543092299?pwd=5xbPfPhxvoJlx24tusiOwPuLSjzwzb.1 \nPasscode: 767376
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/okamoto-f-bmeb-improving-read-to-pangenome-alignment-in-complicated-genomic-regions/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Kordonowy\, S. (CS) - The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation
DESCRIPTION: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 high error rates that quickly degrade computation into noise. This thesis addresses two interconnected questions: what non-trivial computational tasks can near-term devices execute and how should algorithms be implemented to exploit available hardware? We examine circuit design as the bridge between these concerns\, analyzing how gate choices determine algorithmic efficiency and computational hardness. By deriving explicit circuit constructions\, we obtain tangible cost estimates for practical quantum computation\, enabling precise comparisons to classical approaches and identification of break-even points in system size and error rates. Understanding these trade-offs is essential for near-term quantum computing\, where experiments are expensive and error-prone. \nWe apply these ideas to three domains:\n1. Streaming: we provide circuit implementations for the Boolean Hidden Matching problem\, a combinatorial problem which exhibits exponential space separation compared to classical algorithms. We give explicit resource estimates and experimentally validate on Quantinuum’s trapped-ion hardware. We demonstrate that quantum advantage persists even when accounting for error correction overhead. \n2. Variational eigensolving: We examine how gate set choices influence trainability of variational quantum eigensolvers and provide Lie algebraic decompositions for differing gate sets. These decompositions are in turn used as a warm-starting heuristic to overcome barren plateaus\, a common problem in quantum machine learning tasks\, and improve convergence. We apply this technique to three combinatorial problems with primary focus on portfolio optimization. \n3. Cryptography: We develop a digital signature scheme based on circuit learning hardness and classical shadows. Error detection plays a direct role in the circuits considered\, with a focus on practical implementation for near-term devices. \nThese case studies demonstrate how careful circuit design can either mitigate near-term\nconstraints or expose where error correction becomes necessary to achieve quantum\nadvantage. \n  \nEvent Host: Steven Kordonowy\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science  \nAdvisor: Alexandra Kolla  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/9524731001?pwd=MzdrNmhidVBsTXNFbktBcjEvNmZIQT09&omn=96338496668  \nPasscode: J29XGi \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/kordonowy-s-cs-the-role-of-circuits-in-near-term-quantum-computation/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Xie\, Y. (CM) - Crop Circles of Play: Forces and Formation in the Dyadic Magic Circle
DESCRIPTION: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 space through which play does its social work. It has been a central organizing concept across game studies\, performance theory\, and HCI because it points to a basic human capacity: the way play transforms activity that\, on its own\, would mean nothing into shared experiences of intimacy\, trust\, and communitas. Yet a century on\, after generations of theoretical elaboration and equally vigorous contestation\, the Magic Circle remains theoretically rich but empirically elusive\, invoked by Huizinga\, Goffman\, Stenros\, and others but never located in observable interaction. Locating it empirically would let us observe what shapes any given Magic Circle and how that shape develops over the course of play: the game itself\, each player’s prior experience with games and streams\, the histories they bring to each other\, and whatever else is pressing on the shared frame. It would help explain why two dyads playing the same game produce different experiences\, a particular concern for educational games\, serious games\, and art games that aim to deliver a specific message or outcome to players. This proposal argues that the dyadic Magic Circle becomes observable when two players meet over a shared game and must negotiate their individual senses of “what this play is” into a shared frame. It treats this negotiated frame as a Crop Circle: a pattern pressed into recorded interaction by forces (player pulls\, designer prescriptions\, external audiences)\, reconstructable through close multimodal reading. The proposal therefore asks: where\, in the recorded interaction of dyadic play\, can the negotiated Magic Circle be caught taking shape\, and what does its observable form reveal about how a designed game becomes a lived experience between two people? \nThis proposal examines the dyadic Magic Circle through five connected studies. Study 1 conducts a PRISMA systematic review of two-player game scholarship in the ACM Digital Library\, showing that the field has already documented Magic Circle phenomena and closely related interactional dynamics without naming them as such. Study 2 applies Interaction Analysis (Jordan and Henderson\, 1995) to publicly available stream footage of two-player cooperative gameplay performed for an external audience. Study 3 conducts a controlled lab study of dyadic cooperative gameplay\, using multimodal recording and post-session stimulated recall to capture the negotiated Magic Circle under private play conditions. Study 4 conducts a comparative reading of the Study 2 and Study 3 corpora to examine how the audience-versus-private frame\, as an external force\, imprints on the dyadic Magic Circle. Finally\, Study 5 reads across Studies 1-4 to identify what gives the Magic Circle its “magic”: the configurations of force and trace that produce the distinctive social experiences a century of play scholarship has been chasing\, and to articulate “design for the Magic Circle\, not for the experience” as a generative principle for cooperative game design. \nEvent Host: Yi Xie\, Ph.D. Student\, Computational Media \nAdvisor: Elin Carstensdottir \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94258671135?pwd=qEkTZAQKI5avLf060hOycY1hgER2tX.1 \nPasscode: 650205
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/xie-y-cm-crop-circles-of-play-forces-and-formation-in-the-dyadic-magic-circle/
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SUMMARY:Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:Anthropology Colloquium with Nellie Chu\nWednesday\, 6/3/2026 @ 3:30\nSocial Sciences 1\, Rm. 261 or Zoom \n\n\nTalk Abstract: This presentation takes the audience through the maze of dark alleyways of Guangzhou’s urban villages\, where small-scale\, unregulated jiagongchang sustain the “just in time” delivery of fast fashion worldwide. With an ethnographic focus on the Wongs\, a migrant family from neighboring Guangxi Province\, the talk elaborates the paradoxical condition of stalled mobility\, whereby migrants describe their labor as “free” even though they struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of fast fashion production. \nAs migrant bosses\, migrant bosses remain caught in the double bind of evading exploitation by clients and competitors while also exploiting other migrant laborers. Their experience demonstrates that accumulation by exploitation is a relational and dynamic practice that involves uncertain assertions of discipline and uneven power. Over time\, the freedom of physical and social mobility they experience wears off and transforms into a sense of freedom deferred. Stalled mobility highlights how migrant entrepreneurs like the Wongs\, and the temporary migrant workers they hire\, must negotiate the contradictory dynamics of mobility and immobility\, as well as freedom and unfreedom. These paradoxical conditions leave migrants vulnerable to the interests of multinational corporations like SHEIN that mobilize migratory labor power to serve the e-commerce platforms for global fast fashion.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Nellie Chu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University. Her ethnographic and interdisciplinary research focuses on transnational and domestic migrant entrepreneurs across the global supply chains of fast fashion in southern China. Her teaching interests include transnational capitalism\, migration (domestic and transnational)\, gendered labor\, fashion\, and commodity culture. \nShe is the author of the book\, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou (Duke University Press\, 2026). She has papers published in leading academic journals\, including Cultural Anthropology\, positions: east asia critique\, Modern Asian Studies\, Culture\, Theory\, and Critique\, and Journal of Modern Craft. Her work can also be found in Made in China Journal\, Youth Circulations\, and Noema Magazine. She has served on the editorial board of the flagship journal\, Cultural Anthropology (2022-2025).
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/precarious-accumulation-fast-fashion-bosses-in-transnational-guangzhou/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Social Sciences 1\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Xu\, D. (BMEB) - Interplay Between CENP-A\, DNA Methylation\, and H3K9me3 in Defining Centromere Identity
DESCRIPTION:Centromeres ensure proper chromosome segregation during cell division\, yet the organization and regulation of centromeric chromatin within satellite DNA arrays remain incompletely understood. Here\, we leverage the complete diploid human genome benchmark (T2T-HG002) to provide a detailed study of centromeric sequence and chromatin architecture on individual haplotypes. Using adaptive-sampling-enriched\, ultra-long-read DiMeLo-seq\, we achieve single-molecule chromatin profiling across all centromeres\, revealing that along single chromatin fibers\, CENP-A\, the histone variant specifying centromere identity\, forms multiple discrete subdomains within hypomethylated centromere dip regions (CDRs) that are flanked by H3K9me3-enriched heterochromatin. Despite underlying sequence variation\, CDRs localize to sequence-homogeneous domains and maintain relatively balanced CENP-A dosage and aggregate length across all chromosomes and between haplotypes. Further\, we show that bidirectional changes to centromeric and pericentromeric DNA methylation are accompanied by changes to centromeric chromatin architecture. In passaged cells with centromeric hypomethylation\, subdomain boundaries are eroded\, and adjacent CENP-A domains tend to merge and expand. Conversely\, in pluripotent stem cells with centromeric hypermethylation\, CDRs are fundamentally reorganized\, such that discrete hypomethylated domains are frequently consolidated into broader contiguous tracts. These methylation-associated CDR restructuring events suggest that DNA methylation acts as a principal regulator of human centromere organization\, with implications for understanding centromere plasticity\, epigenetic inheritance\, and chromosomal instability in development and disease. \nEvent Host: Daniel Xu\, PhD Candidate\, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics  \nAdvisor: Karen Miga \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99197563825?pwd=meEWoi4ffdZ0K4Syo09Jr0ZbpPThMk.1
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/xu-d-bmeb-interplay-between-cenp-a-dna-methylation-and-h3k9me3-in-defining-centromere-identity/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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. \nLocation : Science Hill\nResearch talks will be scheduled in BioMed 200\, BioMed 300 and PSB 240 from 1:00 – 2:30 PM\nThe poster session will be outside on the Plaza between PSB and the Science & Engineering Library\, 2:30 – 4:00 PM
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/22nd-annual-graduate-research-symposium/
LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, Physical Sciences Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Sai Teja Peddinti\, Google \nAbstract: As the digital landscape expands\, traditional models of threat mitigation and user support are failing to keep pace with the unprecedented security\, privacy\, and safety challenges. Fortunately\, the rise of large language models (LLMs) offers a powerful new paradigm for defense. This talk explores how LLMs are being leveraged to improve digital privacy\, security\, and safety from the network layer down to the individual user. We will examine how LLMs are opening new frontiers in cybersecurity and solving complex challenges\, such as: inferring device identities through semantic analysis of network traffic\, mapping global privacy trends by distilling over a decade of app reviews\, and analyzing user help-seeking behaviors across millions of social media interactions. Ultimately\, this talk will demonstrate how AI is evolving from a technological novelty into an essential foundation for scalable\, proactive\, and human-centric digital defense. \nBio: Sai Teja Peddinti (https://www.saitejapeddinti.com) is a Staff Research Scientist at Google\, where his research focuses on the intersection of Privacy\, Security\, Artificial Intelligence\, and Data Mining. His research employs a multidisciplinary approach\, blending qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate user and developer privacy preferences and translate those insights into scalable privacy/security features using LLMs and large-scale data analysis. Sai Teja holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering (2014). His research has garnered industry recognition\, including the IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award and finalist placements in major applied research competitions. Throughout his education\, he has been honored with numerous accolades. \nHosted by: Professor Ram Sundara Raman \nDate and Time: Wednesday\, June 3\, from 11:00 am – 12:15 pm \nLocation: Engineering 2\, Room E2-180 (Refreshments such as fruit\, pastries\, coffee\, and tea will be provided.) \nZoom Option: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93445911992?pwd=YkJ2TQtF79h0PcNXbEcpZLbpK0coiY.1&jst=3
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/12348/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Career Opportunities at Institute on Aging
DESCRIPTION:Join us for snacks and to meet program leaders and recruitment specialists and learn about the opportunities available for careers at IOA! Institute on Aging is a nonprofit that was formed in San Francisco over 40 years ago and expanded into Santa Cruz & Monterey in 2024. \nWe are constantly growing our team thus looking for Care Managers to serve older adults and adults with disabilities in Santa Cruz & Monterey. \nWe also have programs in many other counties across the state for those who don’t call Santa Cruz their permanent home. \n  \nIf you need accommodations please email slugtalent@ucsc.edu \n  \nYOU BELONG HERE\nPrograms and services are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. To learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/career-opportunities-at-institute-on-aging/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, College Ten Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Morey\, C. (BMEB) - Innovations in Interdependence: Genomic and Functional Evolution in Invertebrates and Their Intracellular Symbionts
DESCRIPTION: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\, immune-response\, or other functions that the host is dependent on for survival or reproduction. Intracellular symbioses allow both the host and the symbiont to occupy new ecological niches\, and thus can have profound impacts on their evolution. Recent and rapid growth of available sequencing data provides new opportunities to investigate the genomic alterations underpinning functional and morphological changes during the evolution of these relationships\, and how they reshape both host and symbiont biology. \nHere\, I propose investigating unique mechanisms of genomic innovation across three levels of host-symbiont evolution: symbiont genome evolution\, host-symbiont regulatory co-evolution\, and host genome evolution. In aim 1\, I will investigate how mobile genetic elements drive episodic genome expansion and functional innovation in obligate chemosynthetic symbionts of deep-sea clams\, further challenging the notion that reductive genome evolution is an inevitable or linear fate for host-restricted lineages. In aim 2\, I will explore the potential for symbiont-derived small-RNA molecules to participate in cross-kingdom gene regulation of their hosts across a diversity of host-symbiont systems using publicly available genome and RNA-sequencing data. In aim 3\, I will explore the convergent evolution of gut loss across independently derived marine bivalve lineages that depend nutritionally on chemosynthetic symbionts\, identifying host genomic changes associated with the transition to a symbiotic lifestyle. Together\, these aims leverage the expanding wealth of genomic data to illuminate how host-symbiont relationships reshape the genomes of both partners and generate novel adaptations across evolutionary time. \nEvent Host: Camryn Morey\, Ph.D. Student\, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics \nAdvisor: Shelbi Russell and Russ Corbett-Detig \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92296748824?pwd=kabPBvby5xZbAHBbxBX6IIHNka8sLX.1 \nPasscode: 153631
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/morey-c-bmeb-innovations-in-interdependence-genomic-and-functional-evolution-in-invertebrates-and-their-intracellular-symbionts/
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences Building\, 575 McLaughlin Drive
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Bose\, S. (ECE) - Learning-Augmented Optimization\, Control\, and Inference in Modern Power Systems
DESCRIPTION: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 for planning and operations. Machine learning offers a promising lever here\, both as an accelerator for and proxy to traditional optimization-based problems. In this thesis\, we consider learning-based algorithms for three such problems: load restoration in islanded microgrids\, accelerated optimal power flow\, and short-term load forecasting. \nWe first address load restoration of islanded MGs containing RESs\, battery ESSs\, microturbines\, and inverter-based devices. We formulate the problem as a multi-timestep nonconvex optimization and decompose it via model predictive control (MPC). We develop novel convex relaxations of the nonconvex constraints\, including power flow\, ESS charge/discharge complementarity\, and inverter voltage-reactive power relations\, to generate approximately feasible solutions\, and then improve on them via a reinforcement learning method based on constrained policy optimization (CPO) that respects the original nonconvexity. \nWe then turn to accelerating convexified optimal power flow (C-OPF) via constraint screening\, presenting an analysis that reduces screening for certain C-OPF families to a rank-based test. Building on this\, we introduce Mixture of Gradient Experts (MoGE)\, an architecture that learns optimal dual variables from historical C-OPF solutions and combines them with the KKT conditions to eliminate likely non-binding constraints\, with a recovery step that guarantees the reduced problem’s solution matches the original’s. We demonstrate speedups on grids with up to 10\,000 buses. \nFinally\, we consider short-term load forecasting (STLF) from smart-meter data\, motivated by the role of forecasts as inputs to the optimization problems above. To address consumer-data privacy and the heterogeneity of consumption patterns\, we introduce personalization layers for federated learning (PL-FL)\, in which each client trains a model with a local personalized component and a shared aggregated component\, and extend it to a privacy-preserving variant (PPFL) that applies differential privacy to the shared component. Separately\, we present an empirical study of forecasting architectures spanning classical recurrent networks to fine-tuned time-series foundation models\, holding dataset size and parameter count constant to isolate architectural contribution. All methods are evaluated on subsets of the NREL ComStock dataset. \nEvent Host: Shourya Bose\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Electrical & Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Yu Zhang \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93511298189?pwd=eAyDKdMirlVqYGUsbhQCccoBM9gDV6.1 \nPasscode: 462014
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bose-s-ece-learning-augmented-optimization-control-and-inference-in-modern-power-systems/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Figuerres\, S. (ECE) - Ion Transport Mechanisms for Bioelectronics
DESCRIPTION: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 behavior in microbial communities\, as well as cellular sensing through ion channels. In comparison to traditional means such as passive diffusion\, mediated ion transfer via ion pumps and ion channels creates opportunity for high precision control of biological signaling. My work centers on ion transfer as a fundamental mechanism for biological signaling and control across systems. Using bioelectronic ion pumps and mechanosensitive ion channels to precisely manipulate the movement of charged species\, I aim to investigate ion transfer at the interface of biology and electronics. \nEvent Host: Sydnie Figuerres\, Ph.D. Student\, Electrical & Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Marco Rolandi
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/figuerres-s-ece-ion-transport-mechanisms-for-bioelectronics/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Sheaves\, T. (CSE) - Timing Side-Channels in Commercial ReRAM: Toward ReRAM Pentimenti
DESCRIPTION: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\, unlike FPGAs\, where sophisticated on-chip sensors capable of detecting pentimenti have been well-studied\, non-invasive pentimenti recovery in commercial ReRAM must rely on measurements of observable write latency. These measurements are dominated by data-dependent structural biases that obscure any underlying defect-dynamics signal. In this dissertation\, we demonstrate that the structural and stochastic components of commercial ReRAM write latency can be decoupled and recovered through non-invasive timing analysis alone. Our results provide the reverse engineering and measurement infrastructure for future study of ReRAM pentimenti by isolating the component of programming latency sensitive to defect dynamics. \nEvent Host: Tyler Sheaves\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering  \nAdvisor: Dustin Richmond  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92729427179?pwd=BpYLqft18YdOU0mDdQWs8erID2VcHi.1 \nPasscode: 939530
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/sheaves-t-cse-timing-side-channels-in-commercial-reram-toward-reram-pentimenti/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Discover Bioinformatics: Data\, Biology & Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Lead the next wave of innovation in life sciences and data\nAs biotechnology and data analytics converge\, the demand for professionals who can interpret complex biological data and drive discovery continues to grow. Learn how experts in bioinformatics use computational tools\, programming\, and molecular biology to transform raw data into scientific and medical insights. \nYour speaker\nJoin Darryl A. León\, Ph.D.\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics program\, for an inside look at how our courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis\, genomics\, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech\, pharmaceuticals\, and healthcare. \nClaim your seat today.\n\nKeep learning\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/discover-bioinformatics-data-biology-innovation/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Denis Titov\, Assistant Professor\, University of California\, Berkeley \nDescription: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously\, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When this control fails\, diseases including diabetes\, cardiovascular disease\, and fatty liver disease result. One key control mechanism is allosteric regulation\, where a small molecule binds to an enzyme and changes its activity. Allosteric regulation is among the most conserved features of cellular life\, yet the functions it serves remain one of the oldest unsolved problems in biology. Several roles have been proposed\, but since the discovery of allostery in the 1950s\, no one has systematically disabled it in metabolic enzymes and measured the consequences. Four technological advances now converge to make this possible. CRISPR enables precise genome editing of allosteric sites. Structural biology has mapped which residues to target. LC-MS metabolomics makes metabolic phenotyping routine. The speed of modern computers enables detailed modeling of allosteric regulator function. In this talk\, I will describe our work developing and testing the first-in-class biophysical model of a metabolic pathway that accurately predicts responses to the addition or removal of allosteric regulators. Our work provides a framework for developing predictive models of cell metabolism that can be used for drug development or for engineering cells for energy production and chemical synthesis. Within a decade\, we plan to develop a model that accurately predicts metabolic activity in any human cell type under any condition. \nAbout the speaker: Denis Titov is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley with joint appointments in the Department of Metabolic Biology and Nutrition\, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology\, and Center for Computational Biology. Dr. Titov’s long-term research dream is to improve the understanding of human metabolic pathway regulation to a point where we can accurately predict metabolic pathway activity in any cell type\, under any condition\, and in response to any perturbation. Dr. Titov is interested in the following broad questions: How does metabolic homeostasis emerge from the activities of individual enzymes? What trade-offs drove the evolution of specific metabolic pathways and their control mechanisms? How to effectively combine data and biophysical models to simulate metabolic pathways? To tackle these questions\, Titov lab is using a combination of biochemistry\, mathematical modeling\, physiology\, custom instrumentation\, and genetically encoded tool development to study metabolism in mammalian cells and reconstituted biochemical systems. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Nilah Ioannidis.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-using-math-and-experiments-to-study-the-control-of-cell-metabolism/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge
DESCRIPTION:Host: ENVS Personnel Committee \nGroundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to support state goals of sustainable and equitable management. However\, court adjudicated basins that encompass over 8\,000 square miles and are home to nearly 11 million people\, over 4 million of whom live in disadvantaged and economically vulnerable communities\, are not managed under SGMA but under court judgments. The groundwater basins in the entire San Gabriel River Watershed and large areas of the Santa Ana Watershed in Southern California are adjudicated. Our research evaluated how management of these important groundwater basins under a court appointed Watermaster is aligned with state sustainability and equity goals as expressed in SGMA. \nIn person and on Zoom \nMeeting ID:  949 5253 7079 \nPasscode: 552886
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/groundwater-management-in-california/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Sciences Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar - Alex Olwal\, "Human-Centered Augmentation: Interacting with Matter\, Humans\, and Machines"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Alex Olwal \nDescription: “In this talk\, I will share my perspectives on the evolution and future of human-centered augmentation\, through the lens of two decades of research and development. Drawing from experiences across academia and industry\, I will discuss insights from having led projects in augmented reality\, accessibility\, electronic textiles\, novel sensing and displays\, and their implications for emerging AI-augmented interfaces.” \nBio: Alex Olwal is a research scientist and engineering leader focused on interaction technology and human augmentation. During his tenure at Google\, he founded the Interaction Lab and Biointerfaces team \, and tech transferred accessibility-focused language glasses to the Augmented Reality product organization\, where he established the Augmented Language Team. As an engineering manager in the product organization\, he evolved his team’s scope to deliver Human-AI language capabilities\, including speech perception\, natural language understanding\, real-time translation and captions\, and generative AI. The team’s conversational AI experiences for AR glasses were a key feature in the Google I/O 2022 keynote. Alex’s research has spanned augmented reality\, ubiquitous computing\, wearables\, and accessibility\, often leveraging novel opportunities in display technology\, sensing\, soft electronics\, and machine intelligence. He is passionate about impactful problems that can be addressed through Human-AI interfaces\, real-time interaction techniques and transformative applications. \nPreviously\, Alex conducted research at MIT Media Lab as a postdoctoral fellow after receiving his Ph.D. from KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, with research conducted at Columbia University\, UC Santa Barbara\, and Microsoft Research (research internship). He has held faculty positions at Stanford University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, and KTH. \nWebsite: www.olwal.com \nHosted by: Professor Katherine Isbister \nWhen: Monday\, June 1\, 2026 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM \nLocation:  \nIN-PERSON @ UCSC Main Campus\, E2-280. \nViewing room @ SVC 3212. \nLUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT BOTH LOCATIONS! Faculty and students are highly encouraged to attend. \nZoom info: \nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97081260699?pwd=eyt5f4CAEHHLQWBhdaLA693T3gecaj.1\nMeeting ID: 970 8126 0699\nPasscode: 047011
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cm-seminar-alex-olwal-human-centered-augmentation-interacting-with-matter-humans-and-machines/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \n  \nDescription: Recently\, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development\, thus creating an increasingly large gap between user demand and the supply that the semiconductor industry can deliver. In this talk\, we will discuss the unique roles of memristor technologies that can be leveraged to develop scaled-up AI neural networks\, particularly spiking neural networks (SNNs) for brain-like neuromorphic computing and unsupervised learning with high energy efficiency. Open-source memristor circuit designs\, along with open-source software\, may facilitate the development of micro- and nano-electronic systems that emulate brain functions. In this venue\, we will discuss how to harness memristor- based circuits and systems to build memristor neurons\, synapses\, and their interconnects for ultra-high packing density\, low power consumption\, and the fabrication services needed to enable innovation. \n  \nBio: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the Baskin School of Engineering\, UC Santa Cruz; Chancellor Emeritus of UC Merced; and President Emeritus of KAIST. He has published more than 500 journal and conference papers\, authored 10 books\, and holds 17 patents. Before returning to academia in 1985\, he led the development of the world’s premier fully CMOS 32-bit VLSI microprocessor chipsets for telecommunications and computing applications as a technical supervisor at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill\, New Jersey. This work was recognized as an IEEE Milestone in February 2025. He has received honors\, including best paper awards\, induction into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame\, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientists Award\, the IEEE Millennium Medal\, the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Award\, the IEEE CAS Society Technical Excellence Award\, the US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award\, the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award\, and the IEEE CAS Society John Choma Education Award\, as well as the Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award. Dr. Kang is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)\, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\, and the Asia-Pacific AI Association. He is a life member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Korean Academy of Science and Technology\, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering\, Korea. He received his B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University\, Teaneck\, New Jersey\, in 1970; an honorary B.S. from Yonsei University; an M.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972; and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975\, all in electrical engineering. \n  \nHosted by: Professor Soumya Bose\, ECE Department \nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=ljcgaCfhMmhZ88Vt5dqQUBVQRjehOx.1
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ece-290-seminar-memristors-for-a-brain-scale-neuromorphic-chip/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Making an Exoneree Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Audiences are invited to Making an Exoneree\, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters\, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about these cases. The final short films unravel the unjust convictions of Aaron Addison\, Dennis Littleton\, Ken Middleton\, Frank Perkins\, and Taunee Smith\, who have spent a combined 126 years in prison.The students hope that by sharing these stories\, they can help correct this injustice and bring innocent people home.\n—\nADVISORIES\n– Mature themes or content\, No intermission\, Strong language.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Attend in person or online\n– ONLINE LINK HERE\n– Reception at 6:00 p.m.\n– Screenings at 7:00 p.m.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must get their permits in advance; attendants will only sell non-affiliate rates\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/making-an-exoneree-showcase/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Zhu\, R. (ECE) - From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
DESCRIPTION:This dissertation investigates how neuromorphic and brain-inspired principles can guide the design of efficient neural language architectures. It addresses two central limitations of modern Transformer-based language models: memory growth with context length and high computational cost from dense matrix multiplication. Through studies of spiking neural networks\, linear-recurrent language models\, hybrid attention architectures\, MatMul-free models\, and looped language models\, the dissertation develops practical approaches for bounded-memory and bounded-compute language modeling. The central conclusion is that recurrent state\, temporal decay\, sparse computation\, and parameter reuse can provide useful design principles for scalable language models\, even when they are abstracted beyond literal biological spiking. \nEvent Host: Ridger Zhu\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Electrical & Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Jason Eshraghian \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96672322005?pwd=3MSitgbm5WboIENbf1hKpxwXnt9VXh.1
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/zhu-r-ece-from-neuromorphic-principles-to-efficient-neural-language-architectures/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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