Audience: Staff
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What’s new in AI?
Lead innovation as a machine learning engineer Want to learn what’s new in AI? Join Praveen Krishna, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Application Development certificate program, in an informal discussion about the AI topic of the month and an open Q&A. You’ll get an insider’s look at what you need to know for where you…
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Unexpected Returns: The Historic Entanglements of Fire, Settlement, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains
March 4th, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Miriam Greenberg and Andrew Matthews will present the findings of UCSC researchers who have spent three years studying the ecological, social, and political economic processes that have set the stage for contemporary wildfires, in what has become known as the “Wildland Urban Interface” (WUI). Come and…
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University Center Bistro Special Valentine Menu
Celebrate Valentine’s Day early at the University Center Bistro Thursday & Friday, February 12–13 the Bistro will feature a special Valentine’s Day–themed menu served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Reservations are recommended. The Bistro accepts Slug Points, Flexi Dollars, and credit cards. Treat yourself — or someone special — to lunch at the Bistro!
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February 25, 2026 | Works-in-Progress with Geoffrey Bowker
On Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 3:00PM in Humanities 1, Room 210, join SJRC scholars on the death of infrastructure, AI, and underwater network cables and his collaborative comic book on Actor Network Theory.
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Liu, C. (CSE) – Enabling LLM Unlearning at Inference Time by Decomposing Detection and Intervention
Machine unlearning addresses the “right to be forgotten” under GDPR and enables privacy, copyright, and safety compliance in large language models. Training-based unlearning can remove targeted behavior on benchmarks, but it scales poorly, can degrade utility, and can fail under adversarial prompting that recovers supposedly forgotten content. This prospectus proposes inference-time behavioral unlearning: rather than…
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Fredrickson, K. (CSE) – Practical Anonymity with Formal Resistance to Traffic Analysis
Anonymous communication systems hide who is talking to whom, not just what is said. However, existing systems are either vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks–attacks where adversaries observe and correlate the network traffic of users–or are forced to rely on unrealistic and unenforceable assumptions about how users behave. Worse, existing theory lacks tools to rigorously model…
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“The Eternal Song” Film Screening
About the Film The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures. Voices from across generations and traditions invite us to witness the enduring scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing pathways carried through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine stories, the film grapples with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma,…

