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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Christie Mysteries
DESCRIPTION:Over the coming year\, Dickens Universe readers and Pickwick Club members will meet for discussions focused on these novels and their lasting influence on the mystery genre. This year’s reading series brings together four landmark works of crime fiction: The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens (Penguin Classics\, 2002)\, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2021)\, The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2025)\, and The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (William Morrow\, 2011). Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about these beloved books. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nSept 27: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\nOct 25: The Pale Horse\nNov 22: The Murder at the Vicarage\nDec 27: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nJan 24: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nFeb 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nMar 28: The Mystery of Edwin Drood\nApr 25: TBD\nMay 23: TBD\nJun 27: TBD\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novels for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novels to read at Gutenburg.org or listen at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-christie-mysteries/2026-09-27/
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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: "Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Young Suh Song\, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University \nDescription: “The rapid growth of information technology (IT) has led to remarkable progress in recent semiconductor technology. Transistors have become smaller so that more transistors can be packed into a chip\, and today’s semiconductors even use technology that vertically stacks layers of transistors. Although this has led to improved electrical performance of semiconductors\, the increase in the number of transistors and interfaces in semiconductors has concomitantly worsened their thermal properties. In this talk\, I will first explain why chips get hot and introduce the materials and transistor structures used in the latest logic and memory semiconductors. Based on this\, I will discuss a range of structural and materials engineering approaches that have been explored to improve thermal properties in state-of-the-art semiconductors\, including metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and 4F 2 3D dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) technology. Finally\, I will wrap up the talk by presenting my vision of how future research could keep chips cool.” \nBio: Young Suh Song is a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University\, South Korea. His research focuses on electro-thermal co-design for advanced semiconductor devices and systems by utilizing improved structures and emerging materials. With this focus\, he has authored and co-authored over 50 research papers in journals and conferences including Nature Nanotechnology\, ACS Nano\, and IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE IEDM). He previously worked as a research scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center\, focusing on electro-thermal co-optimization in advanced CMOS nodes. His interdisciplinary work has been recognized with several honors\, including the outstanding reviewer award for Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP Publishing\, 2025) and best paper awards from IEEE ICCSS (2022) and IEIE (2020). More information can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/yssong24 \n  \nHosted by: Professor Zhicong Yu\, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department \nWhen: Monday\, October 5th from 10:40 to 11:45 AM PST \nLocation: Classroom E2-194
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ece-seminar-why-do-chips-get-hot-electro-thermal-co-design-for-next-generation-transistors/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar: Speaker - Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang "Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System"
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang\, Professor\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) \nDescription: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications\, messages\, news updates\, social media content\, and AI-generated information\, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk\, I will share our research trajectory around human attention\, highlighting how attention has served as a primary focus across our work over the past decade. I will organize this body of work around five main directions: 1) protecting attention from unnecessary interruptions\, 2) utilizing attention during opportune moments\, 3) guiding attention toward important information\, 4) saving attention by delegating routine work to intelligent agents\, and 5) tracking attention through smartphone behavior. I will highlight representative projects that illustrate how we have approached each of these directions. Building on this trajectory\, I will discuss how these lines of work are shaping our current and future exploration of agentic systems centered on human attention. \nBio: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and a Joint Research Fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He leads the Agentic Intelligence for Mobile Engagement and Experience (AIMEX) Lab. His research spans mobile attention and multitasking\, mobile media consumption\, human–agent interaction\, mobile crowdsourcing\, social media influencers\, and digital wellbeing. He collaborates across disciplines and has worked closely with scholars in communication to understand how people engage with different forms of media content. \nHosted by: Associate Professor of Computational Media\, Christina Chung \nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94103955103?pwd=od4ueavRt06ECpwAwqvgofwn5Suyal.1 \nConfirmed Seminar Location: SVC\, Room 3212
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cm-seminar-speaker-yung-ju-stanley-chang-building-intelligence-around-limited-human-attention-our-research-trajectory-toward-attention-aware-agentic-system/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
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SUMMARY:Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California's Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation\, Compliance\, and Infrastructure Planning
DESCRIPTION:In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946\, Passcode: 454736).  \nIf you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version\, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. \nHost: Elliott Campbell \nSpeaker: Siyu Luo\, UC Santa Cruz\, ENVS \nTitle: Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation\, Compliance\, and Infrastructure Planning \nAbstract: Organic waste decomposition in landfills is a major source of anthropogenic methane\, a greenhouse gas with approximately 86 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide over 20 years. California’s Senate Bill 1383 (SB 1383) requires a 75% reduction in organic waste disposal relative to 2014 levels\, creating substantial infrastructure and logistical challenges. This dissertation develops statewide geospatial optimization frameworks linking 447 waste generating jurisdictions\, approximately 200 composting facilities\, agricultural working lands\, and transportation networks. I examine the spatial alignment of waste generation\, processing capacity\, and cropland demand; the effects of alternative compliance structures on costs and greenhouse gas emissions; and the siting of additional composting infrastructure under economic\, logistical\, and regulatory constraints. Results show that strong spatial differences in waste generation\, processing capacity\, transportation\, and compost end use shape system performance and regional burdens. Statewide coordination can reduce costs and emissions by shifting diversion toward lower cost locations\, while jurisdiction level compliance promotes broader participation. Substantial additional processing capacity is still required\, and siting is constrained by transportation\, water and air quality regulation\, and limited VOC Emission Reduction Credit availability. Overall\, effective diversion requires coordinated planning of infrastructure\, compliance\, end use markets\, and environmental regulation. \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/environmental-studies-seminar-series-siyu-luo-exit-talk/
LOCATION:Interdisciplinary Sciences Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Spatially Varying Gene Regulatory Networks via Bayesian Nonparametric Covariate-Dependent Directed Cyclic Graphical Models
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Trisha Dawn\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: Spatial transcriptomics technologies enable measurement of gene expression with spatial context\, providing opportunities to understand how gene regulatory networks (GRNs) vary across tissue regions. Studying spatial variation in GRNs is crucial for uncovering mechanisms governing heterogeneous cellular functions and gives rise to a challenging statistical problem: graph learning with spatially heterogeneous data. Existing methods focus on undirected graphs or directed acyclic graphs\, limiting their ability to capture feedback loops in gene regulation. Although cyclic graphs have been used to construct GRNs\, ensuring their stability (an eigenvalue constraint) remains statistically and computationally challenging\, especially while allowing graph structure to vary spatially. We propose BNP-DCGx\, a Bayesian nonparametric covariate-dependent directed cyclic graphical model for learning spatially varying gene regulatory networks (svGRNs). The key idea is to introduce a covariate-dependent random partition that discretizes the covariate space into clusters\, each with a cluster-specific stable directed cyclic graph. Through partition averaging\, we obtain smoothly varying graph structures over space while preserving stability and providing large prior support for continuously varying graphs. \nAbout the speaker: My research centers on the development of novel statistical methods mostly in causal discovery\, change-point detection and graph matching\, drawing on techniques from Bayesian nonparametrics\, optimization\, machine learning\, and high-dimensional inference. I am particularly interested in applying statistical methodology to emerging data-rich fields such as spatial transcriptomics\, single-cell multi-omics\, network analysis\, and dynamically evolving complex systems. Currently I am developing statistical methodologies to detect changes in microbial communities using cytogram data collected across varying environmental conditions and research cruise trajectories at Dr. Hyun’s group as a postdoc. I earned Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M University\, jointly advised by Yang Ni and Jesús Arroyo. Prior to my doctoral studies\, I completed Master’s degree at the Indian Statistical Institute and joined as a Junior Research Fellow. I also obtained Bachelor’s degree in Statistics at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous)\, Kolkata. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Yunyi Shen
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-spatially-varying-gene-regulatory-networks-via-bayesian-nonparametric-covariate-dependent-directed-cyclic-graphical-models/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Dave Shaw (Santa Cruz\, USA): Planet Local Sharing Circle
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Local Futures \nIn our next Planet Local Sharing Circle\, we’ll be joined by Dave Shaw\, founder of the Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Permaculture. The Center serves as Global Secretariat for the international Right Livelihood College network\, which spans eight campuses plus the Global Campus of Human Rights across five continents. \nCalifornia is a place of sharp contradictions: Silicon Valley\, Hollywood and industrial agriculture on one hand\, and on the other a dense\, often invisible landscape of grassroots\, local and community-based initiatives. Dave and his team have been working to make that second California visible\, mapping localisation efforts across the state and looking for the connections between them. \nThere’s a natural circle here. Helena Norberg-Hodge\, who founded Local Futures\, is a Right Livelihood Laureate\, and the Center is now working alongside Local Futures to build the California localisation movement and to host a Planet Local Summit at UC Santa Cruz April 26-30\, 2027. \nDave will share what he’s finding: who is doing this work in California\, where the energy is\, and what he’s learned from running a permaculture education farm of his own. Together we’ll explore what helps local initiatives find each other\, sustain themselves\, and build the collective power that wider systemic change requires.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/dave-shaw-santa-cruz-usa-planet-local-sharing-circle/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent
DESCRIPTION:The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of the video-performance Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream (Bruna Castro\, Brasil\, 2026)\, followed by a conversation between Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent around the historical\, political and spiritual relations between Afro-Brazilian ancestrality\, visual arts and abolition feminism in Brazil. \nDenise Carrascosa is a writer\, lawyer\, and full professor of literature at the Federal University of Bahia\, in Brasil. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism of Literature and Culture (UFBA) and completed postdoctoral studies in the History of Slavery in Brasil (UFRB). In 2010\, she launched the abolitionist project Indocile Bodies and Free Minds: an art-education program for literary writing at the Women’s Prison Complex in Bahia\, where she established\, together with sentenced women inmates\, the Free Minds Library (2012)\, enabling Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading. \nGina Dent is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Director of the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she has won awards for her teaching (Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award)\, advocacy (Chancellor’s Award for Diversity)\, and research (Innovator of the Year). Currently\, she serves as Principal Investigator and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition\, a multidisciplinary project—involving exhibitions\, events\, fellowships\, and academic programs—addressing the global crisis of incarceration through art and visual culture. Her recent collaborative projects grow out of her decades-long work as a social justice advocate—Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie\, Haymarket 2022)\, and Seeing through Stone (exhibition catalog\, Marquand 2024). She works with several organizations nationally and internationally\, including Columbia University’s Center for Justice and Australia’s Sisters Inside\, primarily on justice-related concerns.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/under-the-mantle-of-an-idocile-dream-film-screening-and-conversation-with-denise-carrascosa-and-gina-dent/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Explore Research Using AI
DESCRIPTION:In this interactive session\, Prof. David Lee from Computational Media will facilitate a hands-on session on using AI to explore research papers.  \nBring your laptops! If you do not have an AI subscription\, you can get the free Gemini for Students plan and install Antigravity 2.0.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/explore-research-using-ai/
LOCATION:Cultural Center – Merrill College\, 641 Merrill Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Workshop
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, and Erich Weiler\, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the second week of our BME 280B seminar series\, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology\, and bioinformatics. \nOpen to all\, food will be provided. Class enrollment is not required. \n  \nPlease join us this week to learn more about the works of Erich Weiler and Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort: \nSpeaker 1 at 11:40 AM: Erich Weiler\, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer\, University of California\, Santa Cruz Genomics Institute \nTitle: Mastering HPC Workload Orchestration: A Strategic Guide to Slurm \nDescription: As high-performance computing (HPC) demands grow\, efficient workload orchestration and resource allocation become critical for maximizing cluster throughput and hardware return on investment. This presentation provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and leveraging the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (Slurm) within distributed HPC environments. Attendees will explore the core architecture of HPC clusters—including login nodes\, compute nodes\, and shared storage fabrics—alongside the central daemons (slurmctld\, slurmd\, and slurmdbd) that power execution\, control\, and accounting. \nThe talk breaks down the job execution lifecycle for both interactive and batch workloads\, detailing how Slurm evaluates job priorities using a multifactor system driven by job age\, size\, partition constraints\, and Fair Share algorithms (such as Fair Tree). Key operational focus areas include partition design\, backfill scheduling\, and the severe performance impacts of over-requesting CPU cores\, RAM\, GPUs\, and walltime. Practical best practices—such as I/O hygiene\, local scratch utilization\, and avoiding common resource bottlenecks—are highlighted to help researchers and engineers navigate queue mechanics\, optimize job scheduling\, and ensure equitable\, high-throughput cluster utilization. \nBio: Erich Weiler is a Senior Systems Architect and Engineer with over two decades of expertise in high-performance computing\, enterprise storage architectures\, and high-availability infrastructure. He currently serves as Genomics Systems Architect at the University of California\, Santa Cruz Genomics Institute\, where he manages multi-petabyte parallel file systems\, GPU-accelerated computing clusters\, and hybrid cloud environments supporting advanced comparative genomics and computational biology. Erich also provides specialized systems architecture consulting for prominent academic institutions and research facilities across the country\, including Johns Hopkins University\, Northeastern University\, and Claremont McKenna College. \nWith a deep background spanning Linux/UNIX systems administration\, cluster workload management via Slurm\, and complex high-speed networking\, Erich specializes in designing resilient\, scalable infrastructure for data-intensive research environments. His past work includes architecting a $5 million\, 5-petabyte high-performance storage installation for the NIH/NCI-funded Cancer Genomics Hub\, as well as engineering secure\, FISMA-compliant data deployment platforms. Erich holds a B.A. from Southwestern University. \n  \nSpeaker 2 at 12:25 PM: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort\, Postdoctoral Scholar\, University of California\, San Francisco \nTitle: Understanding Heterogeneity in Neurodegenerative Disease through Genomics: From Patients to Genomes \nDescription: Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease are becoming increasingly prevalent as populations age worldwide. These disorders show substantial heterogeneity across individuals in susceptibility\, clinical presentation\, and progression. Understanding the biological basis of this variation is important for clarifying disease mechanisms\, characterizing risk\, and identifying opportunities for prevention and treatment. This talk will examine how human genomics can be used to investigate heterogeneity in neurodegenerative disease\, from shared genetic architecture across disorders to variation in individual susceptibility. \nUsing Alzheimer’s disease and primary open-angle glaucoma as examples of neurodegenerative diseases\, the first part of the talk will focus on shared genetic architecture and pleiotropy between the two disorders\, integrating large-scale genomic and   data to identify shared genetic signals. The second part will examine how genetic susceptibility\, including polygenic risk\, operates in the context of clinical and potentially modifiable risk factors to shape cognitive outcomes and dementia risk. Together\, these approaches examine different sources of heterogeneity in neurodegenerative disease\, from shared biological processes across disorders to the interplay of genetic and non-genetic risk factors across individuals. \nFinally\, this talk will outline future directions exploring how long-read sequencing and pangenome-based representation may expand both the characterization and representation of human genomic diversity\, creating new opportunities to connect genomic variation with clinically meaningful differences in disease susceptibility and risk. \nBio: Paulina Tolosa-Tort\, MD\, PhD\, MPH\, is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California\, San Francisco\, whose research focuses on the genetic and non-genetic determinants of heterogeneity in neurodegenerative disease. Her research perspective emerged from clinical training in medicine and ophthalmology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)\, where differences in disease onset\, presentation\, and progression motivated questions about the biological basis of individual susceptibility. She subsequently completed a Master of Public Health in Quantitative Methods at Harvard University and pursued doctoral training in Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Yale University\, where she used cross-disease genetic approaches to investigate biological processes shared between Alzheimer’s disease and primary open-angle glaucoma. At UCSF\, she investigates how genetic susceptibility interacts with clinical and environmental exposures to shape cognitive outcomes and dementia risk. \nHosted By: Professor of Biomolecular Engineering\, Dr. Benedict Paten
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-100826/
LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, Physical Sciences Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Cognitive Health: The Many Ways to Exercise – Wellness in Action Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 8\, 12:00 PM– 12:30 PM \nRegister for the Zoom link. \nDid you know that physical movement and cognitive training work together to reshape and strengthen your brain? In this session\, you’ll discover how physical exercise boosts brain elasticity and how cognitive training can build cognitive skills. \nThe Wellness in Action series is designed to help you improve your health in a short session with simple tips you can try in your own life. Take some time to put it in action in your own daily routines\, and come for the follow-up session two weeks later to reflect on what worked\, troubleshoot what didn’t\, and learn what’s working for others. \nRegister here for the Zoom link. The workshop will be recorded\, and a link to the recording will be sent out after the first session. \nIn the follow-up session on Monday\, October 19 from 12:00 PM -12:30 PM\, you will have the opportunity to share your experience and learn from others in the group. This session will not be recorded. \nFor questions\, please reach out to Ashley Parker\, Health and Well-being Specialist\, at aseparke@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cognitive-health-the-many-ways-to-exercise-wellness-in-action-series/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Workshop
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SUMMARY:9th US - India Conference | Shaping the Next Global Turn
DESCRIPTION:With the theme ‘US–India: Shaping the Next Global Turn’\, this conference aims to serve as a premier platform for substantive dialogue on the evolving business\, technological and geopolitical relationship between India and the United States. The event will feature eminent speakers and thought leaders from both countries\, addressing strategic opportunities and challenges in bilateral collaboration across innovation\, trade and global leadership. \nWho Should Attend\nThe conference will bring together policy makers\, business leaders\, entrepreneurs\, academics\, investors\, and senior professionals to explore new strategies for US–India cooperation in a fast-changing global landscape. \nAgenda\n2:30 PM–  Registration\n3-3:55 PM– Inaugural Session | A Partnership Back in Motion: Converting Momentum into Outcomes\n4-4:50 PM– Panel Discussion | Scaling Innovation: Capabilities\, Collaboration and Competitive Edge\n4:55-5:45 PM– Panel Discussion | A Rewired World: Security\, Power and Possibility\n5:50-6:45 PM–| Panel Discussion | Trade that Works: Balancing Domestic Priorities and Global Integration \nRegistration Details\n• Pre-registration is mandatory\n• Seats are limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. \nThe 9th edition of the US–India Conference is being organized jointly with UC Santa Cruz and is supported by the Consulate General of India in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/9th-us-india-conference-shaping-the-next-global-turn/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Reception,Workshop
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SUMMARY:SF Tech Week AI Frontier Summit: Intelligence at Scale - Agents\, Physical AI & Chips
DESCRIPTION:AI Frontier Summit 2026 brings together AI founders\, researchers\, investors\, and industry leaders to examine how the next generation of intelligent systems is being built—from autonomous agents and physical AI to infrastructure innovations integrating GPUs\, memory\, photonics\, and interconnect technologies. The summit connects technical breakthroughs with real-world deployment\, business strategy\, and investment opportunities. \nWhat You’ll Explore • Chips\, infrastructure\, memory\, photonics\, interconnect\, security\, and the AI supply chain • Agentic AI moving toward reliable production systems and self-improved systems • Physical AI\, Robotics\, embodied intelligence development • Curated startup demonstrations and high-value ecosystem connections \nRegister at  bit.ly/ai-frontier
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/sf-tech-week-ai-frontier-summit-intelligence-at-scale-agents-physical-ai-chips/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Lectures & Presentations
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