Lectures & Presentations

Name: Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
Start: 2026-10-14T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-14T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Zoom

Oct 2026
- Thu 1
  - 12:00 pm onwards
    
    Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
- Fri 2
  - Until 5:00 am
    
    Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop
- Sat 3
  - 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    
    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
- Mon 5
- Wed 7
  - 7:00 am – 8:30 am
    
    Dave Shaw (Santa Cruz, USA): Planet Local Sharing Circle
  - 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    
    Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent
  - 7:10 pm – 8:45 pm
    
    Explore Research Using AI
    
    Free
- Thu 8
  - 11:40 am – 1:15 pm
    
    BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Erich Weiler, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer
  - 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
    
    Cognitive Health: The Many Ways to Exercise – Wellness in Action Series
  - 2:30 pm – 8:00 pm
    
    9th US – India Conference | Shaping the Next Global Turn
- Fri 9
  - 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
    
    SF Tech Week AI Frontier Summit: Intelligence at Scale – Agents, Physical AI & Chips
    
    Free
- Mon 12
  - 10:40 am – 11:45 am
    
    ECE 290 Seminar: “Photon Counting Detectors for X-Ray Imaging”
  - 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm
    
    Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Caring for cultural keystones: Indigenous-led stewardship, public values, and tree genomics in a hotter, drier world
  - 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    Essential and Effective Job Search Skills
  - 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
    
    Virtual Event
    October Slugs and Steins with Professor Matt O’Hara
- Tue 13
  - 10:30 am – 11:30 am
    
    Fellowships for Research in Japan – In-person Info Session
  - 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
    
    Kraw Lecture: Could a “Super El Niño” be coming?
- Wed 14
  - 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
    
    Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

Last modified: Sep 10, 2026

Lectures & Presentations

Oct 2026

Thu 1

Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

Fri 2

Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

Sat 3

First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

Mon 5

ECE 290 Seminar: “Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors”

CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

Statistics Seminar: Spatially Varying Gene Regulatory Networks via Bayesian Nonparametric Covariate-Dependent Directed Cyclic Graphical Models

Wed 7

Dave Shaw (Santa Cruz, USA): Planet Local Sharing Circle

Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent

Explore Research Using AI

Thu 8

BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Erich Weiler, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer

Cognitive Health: The Many Ways to Exercise – Wellness in Action Series

9th US – India Conference | Shaping the Next Global Turn

Fri 9

SF Tech Week AI Frontier Summit: Intelligence at Scale – Agents, Physical AI & Chips

Mon 12

ECE 290 Seminar: “Photon Counting Detectors for X-Ray Imaging”

Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Caring for cultural keystones: Indigenous-led stewardship, public values, and tree genomics in a hotter, drier world

Virtual Event
Essential and Effective Job Search Skills

Virtual Event
October Slugs and Steins with Professor Matt O’Hara

Tue 13

Fellowships for Research in Japan – In-person Info Session

Kraw Lecture: Could a “Super El Niño” be coming?

Wed 14

Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop