Audience: Graduate Students
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Just-In-Time (all-majors) Virtual Career & Internship Fair
Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing careers in all industries are welcome to attend. Get the chance to meet recruiters from all industries/firms seeking to fill internship, full-time, and part-time roles. Connect virtually and take essential steps toward laying the foundation for your future career and potentially even land an interview!…
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Tang, M. (STAT) – Bayesian Modeling and Scalable Inference for Count Time Series in Infectious Disease Surveillance
Real-time monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks calls for statistical models that recover interpretable quantities such as the time-varying reproduction number from noisy count data, track posterior uncertainty, and run on time scales compatible with daily updates. Existing methods address these aims through separate model classes. Discretized Hawkes processes, Poisson autoregressions, and distributed lag models each…
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Wang, Z. (CSE) – From Static Alignment to Adaptive Safety: Toward Reliable and Capable AI Systems
Modern AI systems are rapidly moving beyond static text generation toward capable models and agents that reason, use tools, store memories, and update persistent state, yet safety methods still often assume a fixed model whose behavior can be controlled by output-level refusal. This leaves critical gaps in understanding why aligned models fail under adversarial pressure,…
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Designing for Today’s Digital World
Design digital experiences people love to use. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy, usability, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. Learn how UX and web design specialists use research‑driven methods, prototyping tools, and inclusive design principles to build seamless digital experiences across platforms. Speaker…
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BIC 2026 | UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium
The 26th Annual UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium (BIC 2026) is taking place at UC Santa Cruz on August 22-23, 2026. The event will bring together faculty, researchers, students, industry representatives, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders to explore bioengineering & AI in the heart of the redwood forest. BIC 2026 will foster new collaborations and showcase…
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Inaugural PyTorch Santa Cruz Meetup
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…
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Xu, D. (BMEB) – Interplay Between CENP-A, DNA Methylation, and H3K9me3 in Defining Centromere Identity
Centromeres ensure proper chromosome segregation during cell division, yet the organization and regulation of centromeric chromatin within satellite DNA arrays remain incompletely understood. Here, we leverage the complete diploid human genome benchmark (T2T-HG002) to provide a detailed study of centromeric sequence and chromatin architecture on individual haplotypes. Using adaptive-sampling-enriched, ultra-long-read DiMeLo-seq, we achieve single-molecule chromatin…
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Career Opportunities at Institute on Aging
Join us for snacks and to meet program leaders and recruitment specialists and learn about the opportunities available for careers at IOA! Institute on Aging is a nonprofit that was formed in San Francisco over 40 years ago and expanded into Santa Cruz & Monterey in 2024. We are constantly growing our team thus looking for…
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Creative Technologies—Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis
The inaugural class of Creative Technologies presents, Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis, a digital art exhibition hosted in New Art City. This digital showcase highlights the culmination of the students’ work both in and out of the program. Explore the various creations from our students that range from game design, digital art, media and…
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Presenter: Sai Teja Peddinti, Google Abstract: As the digital landscape expands, traditional models of threat mitigation and user support are failing to keep pace with the unprecedented security, privacy, and safety challenges. Fortunately, the rise of large language models (LLMs) offers a powerful new paradigm for defense. This talk explores how LLMs are being leveraged…