Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity
A Free Public Symposium Friday, May 1, 2026 Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz Main Campus Doors open at 12:30 PM | Program begins at 1:00 PM Registration is free […]
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Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States
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BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and […]
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Statistics Seminar: Advancing Statistical Rigor in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Using In Silico Control Data
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Guan’ao Yan, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Description: 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 […]
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AM Seminar: Engineering the Earth’s Climate
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Dr. Pulkit Dubey, Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz Description: 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. […]
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Analyzing AI Security and Vulnerabilities in the Current Landscape
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAInterested in careers in AI and cybersecurity? Then don’t miss this highly informative workshop covering today’s most relevant trends in this space. In this 2-part session, you’ll get expert insight from security leaders at Microsoft. Here’s a breakdown of each part: When AI Breaks, Be the One Who Notices Speaker: Raji Vanninathan Discover how […]
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Wang, Q. (STAT) – Modern Statistical Methods for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Processes
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventModern scientific studies increasingly rely on complex datasets exhibiting spatial and temporal dependence, particularly in social, environmental, and climate applications. This dissertation develops statistical models and computational methods for analyzing such data, with an emphasis on capturing dependence structures, nonlinear dynamics, and uncertainty quantification. A spatial deep learning framework is developed to extend classical geostatistical […]
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CSE Colloquium – Evaluating AI Agents in the Real World: Lessons from Two Benchmarks
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Tanya Roosta, AMD Abstract: Autonomous research and web-navigation agents — OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research Max, OpenAI Operator — are now shipping to millions of users. Yet independent evaluation finds leading agents reach less than 68% rubric compliance, and recent work shows that 14+ points of MMLU “performance” disappears once contamination is removed […]
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Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventComplex societal problems (e.g. wicked problems) such as those brought on by climate change can be addressed through a combination of Research through Design (RtD), co-design, and Serious Games (SG) by inviting affected communities to take part in developing iterative, experimental solutions and exploring their potential impact. In the course of my research, I have […]
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AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Anil Damle, Associate Professor, Cornell University Description: The column subset selection problem is a classical topic in numerical linear algebra, with renewed interest driven by applications in computational quantum chemistry, integral equations, model reduction, and model compression in machine learning. This talk surveys recent advances that clarify how structural properties of a matrix influence […]
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Statistics Seminar: Learning under Constraints and Extremes: Methods and Applications in Energy Systems
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Yu Zhang, Associate Professor, ECE Department of UC, Santa Cruz Description: Modern cyber-physical systems present statistical learning problems that deviate significantly from standard i.i.d. supervised settings. In particular, two challenges frequently arise: (i) learning under hard structural constraints, and (ii) learning under severe distributional imbalance and rare events. In this talk, I present two […]
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Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventMost optimization problems face the challenge of computing an optimum solution requiring superpolynomial time. In particular, they are classified as NP-hard problems that have no polynomial-time algorithm to date. Instead, computer scientists turn to find an approximate solution and create numerous elegant algorithms. However, in the modern era, computational environments have changed drastically, and we […]
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CSE Colloquium – The EU’s Cybersecurity Framework: what it is, what it means
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Lothar Determann, Pieter T.J. Wolters Abstract: The European Union has enacted a comprehensive cybersecurity framework (the “Framework”) that imposes far-reaching obligations on developers of standalone software and connected products. This Article describes the European legislative approach before turning to a description of the Framework. Anchored by the Cyber […]
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Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThis quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
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Ehrlich, D. (CM) – Designing Open Microscopy Tools for Neuroscience Research
Virtual EventAdvances in microscopy have transformed our understanding of biological systems, yet the high cost and limited accessibility of commercial imaging platforms continue to re- strict their use in many research settings. This thesis presents the design and development of open hardware microscopy tools for neuroscience research, with a focus on integrating user- centered design principles […]
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Santa Cruz Launchpad Student Startup Competition & Job Fair
the Grove 400 Beach Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 10th annual Santa Cruz Launchpad event combines a student startup competition with a community career fair, all under one roof! This year’s event takes place at the The Grove at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (400 Beach St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060) on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. The first half of the day spotlights […]
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Shadmon, R. (CS) – Proximal Byzantine Agreement
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventResearch on fault-tolerance protocols for approximate Byzantine agreement (ABA) has largely focused on ensuring that distributed processes remain consistent despite fewer than 1/3 faulty processes. Yet in many real systems, consistency is only useful when it enables processes to make accurate decisions from replicated, noisy, and potentially adversarially corrupted data relative to an ideal fault-free […]
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QB3/QBI Pre-Hackathon Mixer
Rachel Carson College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAJoin us for an exciting pre-hackathon mixer at University of California, Santa Cruz! Get ready to mingle, form teams, and start brainstorming ideas for your projects before the QBI Hackathon kicks off at UCSF in June 2026. Agenda 5:00 PM – Doors Open 5:30 PM – Pitch Session 6:00 PM – Networking & Mingling We […]
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STEM Culture Festival
FeaturedJack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThe STEM Culture Festival is returning to UC Santa Cruz on Friday, May 15 from 1-4pm in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard. Join us! This year, we’re expanding with even more performances, activities, and creative ways to celebrate UCSC’s vibrant, diverse, and excellent STEM culture! What to expect: Cuban Dance Master Susana Arenas and her troupe […]
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NemoClaw NVIDIA x ASUS Hackathon @ UC Santa Cruz
Kresge College R-3 Suites, Santa Cruz, CAWelcome to the premier physical AI hackathon on the West Coast. We are bringing together the top 200 AI, infrastructure, and hardware engineers to build autonomous, agentic applications on the NVIDIA NemoClaw stack. You aren’t just calling APIs, you are building on enterprise-grade hardware. The Tracks: The Edge Track: 40 exclusive teams will be granted […]
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Statistics Seminar: Unifying Regression-Based and Design-Based Causal Inference in Time-Series Experiments and Crossover Experiments
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Peng Ding, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Description: I will present some recent results on unifying regression-based and design-based causal inference in time-series experiments and crossover experiments. Part I: Time-series experiments, also called switchback experiments or N-of-1 trials, play increasingly important roles in modern applications in medical and industrial areas. Under the potential outcomes framework, […]