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    Calicchio, A. (BMEB) – Comparison of long-read sequencing and analysis methods for transcriptome analysis

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive
    Hybrid Event

    Alternative splicing, the process generating different RNA isoforms from a single gene, is considered one of the main factors driving increased organism complexity in eukaryotes. Variations in isoform and gene expression produce the functional differences that give rise to different cell types and, in some cases, result in disease. Long-read RNA sequencing has transformed our […]

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    Holmes, J. (CM) – Towards a Multi-dimensional Model of User Load

    Virtual Event

    Games user researchers (GURs) use various methods to understand when a game is overloading its players. In games research where data-driven multimodal approaches are necessary to drive insights, the currently available tools to measure user load are coarse, one-dimensional, and often aggregated. The more dominant instruments, such as the Cognitive Load Scale (CLS) and the […]

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    Chen, X. (STAT) – Changepoint Detection and Clustering Methods for Multivariate Time Series and Attributed Networks

    Virtual Event

    Time series data with dependence arise across a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines, often presenting challenging inferential problems related to structural change and clustering. This Ph.D. proposal addresses several related problems in statistical inference for multivariate and network-indexed time series. First, we develop a weighted multivariate $U$-statistic procedure for detecting a single changepoint […]

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    Li, J. (CM) – Detecting Failure to Adapt: Reading Self-Regulated Learning Breakdowns from Game Telemetry through Plan Recognition

    Virtual Event

    Three learners who fail the same level of an educational game the same number of times can be failing in three different ways, and the difference determines what each should do next. Yet the measures a game’s logs are usually reduced to (completion time, error counts, mastery estimates) render the three identical. This proposal takes […]

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    How to Apply to the Premed Postbacc Program

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Join UC Santa Cruz Healthcare Pathways for a live online information session to learn about our Premed Postbacc Cohort, Premed and Pre-Health DIY Pathways, and other program offerings. We’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle, which opens in August. We’ll also discuss the application process, admissions timeline, coursework, […]

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    Gholami, K. (ECE) – Efficient Language Model Construction and Inference via Sparsity

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    While large language models can match or exceed human performance, they do so with memory and energy costs orders of magnitude greater than biological cognition. We investigate sparsity as a brain-inspired computational principle to address both. We first establish a framework for evaluating small language model construction methods, using the next-token logit distribution as a […]

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    Fontana, J. (STAT) – When We’re Always Wrong: Scalable Variable Selection in M-Open Settings

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    A ubiquitous task in statistical practice is that of variable selection, identifying which of a large set of features are the relevant ones. As data sets with a large number of observations have become increasingly common, new theoretical and computational challenges for model selection have emerged. We consider the variable selection problem for linear models […]

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    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950
  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950
  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950
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    ECE Seminar – “Nanoprobes for Single-Cell Surgery”

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Paolo Actis, Associate Professor of Bionanotechnology at the University of Leeds Description: “Physiological and pathological processes within the human body are controlled by complex cell-cell interactions within the context of a dynamic microenvironment. The ability to dynamically measure phenotypes (i.e. gene expression, protein activities, ion fluctuations, signalling) at the single cell level is key […]

  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950
  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950
  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950

  • Dickens on the beach, illustration by Dan Hubig

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’

    The Dickens Universe featuring ‘Bleak House’
    Humanities and Social Sciences Facility 2 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity—all focused on Victorian literature. In 2026, the Dickens Universe will feature ‘Bleak House’ by Charles Dickens.

    $500 – $1950

  • First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

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    Wildlife Cameras and Other Methods for Assessing Backyard Biodiversity

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Home gardens, small farms, and wildland-agricultural interfaces can often be areas of increased water, food, and habitat resources for wildlife. Many people are interested in seeing wildlife on their properties, from the common visitors to the elusive wanderers. Come learn about how to monitor for wildlife in your own backyard, as well as the ecology, […]

    $20 – $30
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    Le, A. (STAT) – Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis of Densities for Replicated Point Patterns

    Virtual Event

    Many scientific applications produce repeated point pattern realizations across subjects, regions, or time. While such point patterns exhibit individual variation, we assume they arise from related point processes that share a common distributional structure. This dissertation develops a Bayesian nonparametric modeling framework built around an interpretable baseline. We work with Poisson processes, such that the […]

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    Zhao, Z. (CSE) – TOWARD VERIFIABLE REASONING IN LLMS

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States
    Hybrid Event

    Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting can improve final-answer performance, but it does not guarantee that intermediate reasoning steps are faithful, valid, or checkable. This proposal studies how formal methods can make natural-language reasoning more reliable by translating CoT rationales into Lean artifacts, checking the resulting theorem statements and proofs, and using compiler feedback to diagnose and repair […]

  • Slugs and Steins: Lectures from UC Santa Cruz

    August Slugs and Steins with Professor Barbara Rogoff

    Virtual Event

    Learning to be Community-Minded How do children learn to be part of a community, attentive to what’s going on around them and pitching in to help out? Barbara Rogoff builds on her 50+ years researching and participating with a Mayan community in Guatemala to make the case that people everywhere can learn from Indigenous cultural […]