Presenter: Mario Stanke, Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Greifswald Description: This talk will explore recent machine learning approaches for eukaryotic genome annotation. Our supervised ab initio deep gene finder, Tiberius, correctly predicts more than four times as many human protein-coding gene structures as its father, Augustus, and in some clades, it approaches the accuracy of […]
Due to their increasing complexity, autonomous decision-making agents rely on increasingly advanced algorithms, from classical control theory to reinforcement learning (RL) and, more recently, large vision-language models. While these algorithms help automate the decision-making in complex systems, they bring newer attack vulnerabilities that an adversary can exploit. In this dissertation, we study the security of […]
Join the UC Santa Cruz Premed Postbacc Program for an informative, live online session designed for students, parents, and anyone exploring pathways into medicine, public health, and other health professions. In this discussion, we’ll provide a comprehensive overview of premed and pre-health programs to help you understand your options and choose the path that best aligns with […]
Life After Graduation Series Hosted by UC Davis, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. Join the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another session in the Life After Graduation Series, “From Diploma to Dollars: Money Matters for New Alumni,” on Tuesday, June 30 at 12:00 p.m. (Pacific Time). Graduation is behind you—now it’s […]
Join us for the first workshop in a 4-part series this summer! This relevant and informative workshop will cover a broad overview of many essential skills and tools to set you up for success in your job search – everything from “What do I want to look for?” to “What are the best tools to […]
A community gathering of people interested in PyTorch and the projects that use it – not an official PyTorch organization. Sponsored by Red Hat and University of California Santa Cruz Location: Engineering 2, Room 180 Food, Socializing, and Excellent talks from the PyTorch Ecosystem 5:30 – 6:30 Food and Socializing 6:30 – 7:00 Talk 1 […]
Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin […]
UCSC’s Summer Academy on Artificial Intelligence is a four-week, in-person program for talented and motivated high school students who are interested in exploring artificial intelligence (AI) in a university setting. Hosted at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, the program offers an immersive learning experience that combines foundational AI concepts with hands-on, research-inspired work. Students learn […]
Another year under the current administration has created significant ongoing federal agency and policy changes, much of which has significant impacts on universities and research. Join John MacMillan, Vice Chancellor for Research (and interim Provost/EVC), and Csilla Csaplár, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, for an interactive discussion about current hot topics in the federal policy […]
Networking and personal branding go hand-in-hand, and in today’s highly competitive job market, these things are more critical than ever! Join us for an interactive workshop that provides actionable, real-world strategies to help you get started on building a powerful personal brand, optimizing your digital presence, and potentially converting networking into career opportunities, both in-person […]
Current members of the Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden are invited to our annual Member Reception in the Hay Barn on July 8. Learn about the Friends’ and […]
AI-assisted clinical decisions in medicine, and particularly in dermatology, demand fine-grained understanding across diverse skin tones, body sites, and disease types, yet expert-annotated datasets are scarce, demographically imbalanced, and almost devoid of rare presentations. This dissertation develops four deep learning systems for this low-label, low-coverage regime. We introduce HealNet, which learns wound healing stages from […]
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become essential platforms for parallel computing, supporting applications far beyond graphics. Central to GPU programming models is its memory consistency specification (MCS), which defines the semantics of concurrent shared-memory operations and interacts with other language features to determine security guarantees such as memory safety. Understanding whether implementations conform to an […]
Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm! When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm, July 11–August 22, or while supplies last. PLEASE NOTE that u-pick will not occur on Saturday, August 29. Where: Free parking will be available in the Hay Barn lot or lot […]
Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the […]
Dual Attention Transformers (DATs) extend decoder-only Transformers with a dedicated relational-attention stream, making them a natural architecture for abstract identity rules such asABA and ABB. Surprisingly, we find that comparably sized GPT-2 models outperform DATs on these tasks. We investigate this gap with two complementary mechanistic analyses. First, causal mediation analysis shows that DATs exhibit […]
While the human brain learns continually, mastering new tasks without forgetting the old and adapting to unfamiliar ones from context alone, modern neural networks still lack both. To bridge the gap between biological adaptivity and modern AI, we have established foundational work on sparsity as a computational principle at three levels of neural computation, through […]
Unlocking the blueprint for regeneration: Insights from Hydra Regeneration, the ability to heal and regrow lost body parts, varies across species, tissues, and even cell types. To harness regenerative ability for medicine, we need to understand the genetic mechanisms that are similar across regenerating species. My lab uses Hydra, a small freshwater relative of jellyfish, to investigate […]
Life After Graduation Series Hosted by UC Davis and COOP Careers, open to recent alumni and rising seniors of all UC campuses. Join the Cal Aggie Alumni Association for another […]
Having a fantastic resume and cover letter are the first steps towards securing a great job or internship. Join us for this informative workshop to learn current best practices for creating or updating your resume and cover letter. Topics include: Tailoring your resume to the job description Formatting tips Creating impactful bullet points Writing a […]