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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker - Dr. Jaeyoung Lim "Autonomous Information Gathering using Long Endurance Aerial Vehicles"
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Jaeyoung Lim\, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department\, University of California\, Berkeley \nDescription: Monitoring large-scale environments is essential for natural hazard management\, environmental process observation\, and search and rescue operations. Yes\, meaningful coverage of the target environment demands vast infrastructure and dense sensor networks. Unlike stationary sensors\, robotic systems can navigate autonomously and actively select where measurements are taken. Autonomous systems that can reason on observations would enable efficient\, targeted observation without vast infrastructure requirements.\nIn this seminar\, we explore the challenges of enabling autonomous information-gathering using long-endurance aerial vehicles. Using avalanche monitoring in mountainous terrain as a motivating application\, we examine key problems in information quantification and safe navigation for deploying autonomous systems in complex\, real-world environments. \nBio: Jaeyoung Lim is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Agile Robotics and Perception Lab at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California\, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics at ETH Zurich in 2024\, where he focused on enabling safe navigation and autonomous information gathering using long-endurance aerial vehicles in challenging mountainous environments. Beyond his research\, Jaeyoung is actively involved in the PX4 Autopilot project as a component maintainer for simulation. He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2019 and his B.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University in 2016. \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-speaker-dr-jaeyoung-lim-autonomous-information-gathering-using-long-endurance-aerial-vehicles/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Advancing Statistical Rigor in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Using In Silico Control Data
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Guan’ao Yan\, Assistant Professor\, Michigan State University \nDescription: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics technologies now let us map cellular diversity and tissue organization at high resolution\, but the computational methods built to analyze these data are difficult to evaluate in a rigorous\, reproducible way. Two key barriers are the lack of realistic synthetic data with known ground truth and the ambiguity in how we define biologically meaningful spatial patterns. This talk will introduce two simulation frameworks—scReadSim for single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data\, and scIsoSim for isoform-level expression and splicing—that generate realistic sequencing reads while preserving user-specified truth. These tools enable fair\, controlled benchmarking of quantification and splicing methods across experimental protocols. The talk will also present a systematic review of 34 methods for detecting spatially variable genes (SVGs) in spatial transcriptomics data\, proposing a new categorization of SVGs and outlining how future benchmarks should be designed. Overall\, the goal is to improve statistical rigor\, interpretability\, and comparability in single-cell and spatial omics analysis. \nBio: Guan’ao Yan is an Assistant Professor of Computational Mathematics\, Science & Engineering at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from UCLA. His research focuses on statistical and computational methods for modern statistical genomics\, particularly single-cell and spatial omics\, with an emphasis on rigorous benchmarking\, interpretability\, and biomedical discovery. \nHosted by: Statistics Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-advancing-statistical-rigor-in-single-cell-and-spatial-omics-using-in-silico-control-data/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar:  Engineering the Earth’s Climate
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Pulkit Dubey\, Postdoc\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: Neural climate emulators such as NeuralGCM and LUCIE offer efficient\, differentiable alternatives to General Circulation Models (GCMs)\, producing climate predictions at a fraction of the cost. While work to date has focused largely on predictive accuracy\, we leverage differentiability to study control of long-horizon climatological targets. Classical GCMs approach this via adjoint-based optimization. Backpropagation through time (BPTT) is its neural-network analog and inherits the same chaotic gradient explosion at long rollouts. We combine BPTT-based sensitivities with receding-horizon optimization to mitigate the chaotic divergence and enable meaningful control over climatological targets. We illustrate with two candidate climate-cooling strategies and close by sketching reinforcement-learning extensions. \nAbout the speaker: Pulkit Dubey is a postdoc in the Department of Applied Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz. He earned his PhD at the University of New Hampshire on the simulation and modeling of turbulent flows\, where he developed hybrid solvers for 2D turbulence. He joined UCSC in September 2025\, where he works on control strategies for neural climate emulators\, enabling long-horizon control over statistical targets in chaotic dynamical systems. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Nilah Ioannidis.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-engineering-the-earths-climate/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:May Slugs and Steins with Professor Soraya Murray
DESCRIPTION:TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination\nIn this presentation\, visual culture scholar Soraya Murray (Film + Digital Media Department\, UCSC) shares her new book\, TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination (MIT\, Feb 2026). In TECHNOTHRILLER\, Soraya Murray reveals how popular American films after the 1960s\, in which technology assumes a central role—mainly biotech\, military\, and computational—channel our cultural anxieties\, dreams\, and convictions about the power and meaning of advanced technology. Along with iconic adaptations from technothriller novels by Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton\, such as The Hunt for Red October and The Andromeda Strain\, Murray considers Westworld\, Rollerball\, Demon Seed\, WarGames\, Ex Machina\, Tenet\, M3GAN \, and The Creator\, as well as the Terminator and Mission: Impossible franchises. Through these films and others\, she traces deeply embedded popular beliefs about technology and innovation—and then asks what this tells us about the mechanics of power within our technological lives. Her work finds in technothrillers a new way of thinking about the troubled\, sometimes catastrophic\, relationships between humans and their inventions. \nREGISTER
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