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    ECE Special Seminar: “Autonomous Electric Vehicles – Data Centers on the Wheel”

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

    Presented by: Kaushik Rajashekara, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor @ University of Houston Description: “Autonomous electric vehicles (AEVs) are at the forefront of modern transportation, merging automation with sustainability to enhance efficiency and safety while reducing environmental impact. However, these vehicles face significant challenges in balancing the energy demands of autonomous compute […]

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    Mastoras, M. (BMEB) – Polishing genome assemblies and leveraging their improved quality to study centromere variation

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    A complete and accurate genome reconstruction serves as the foundation for studying an organism’s biology and the mechanisms underlying disease. It is particularly critical for reference genomes, which provide a universal coordinate system for downstream genomic analysis. Errors or missing sequences in a reference genome create bias in all of the studies built on top […]

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    Malekos, E. (BMEB) – CRISPR screens of noncanonical ORFs uncover retroviral-derived immune regulators

    Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Ribosome profiling has revealed thousands of noncanonical translation events across mammalian genomes, yet functional characterization has overwhelmingly focused on proliferative fitness in cancer cell lines. Here, we present a comprehensive survey of noncanonical translation in the mouse immune system and its functional consequences in macrophages. By performing a unified Ribo-seq meta-analysis across 20 public mouse […]

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    ECE 290 Seminar: “Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5, 10, 20 Years?”

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

    Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials Description: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing and transmission are being further accelerated by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The adoption of AI continues to expand at an unprecedented pace, […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes

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

    Presenter: Parul Patil, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Description: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as they estimate a latent, non-constant variance. However, existing hetGP implementations are unable to deal with large simulation campaigns and use point-estimates for all unknown quantities, […]

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    BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas; and Speaker Theo Kell

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity Presenter 1: Julian Lucas, Graduate Student in Miga Lab, University of California, Santa Cruz Description: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation, yet their repetitive DNA has long been a blind spot in human genomics. Until recently, they were largely missing from reference genomes, and […]

  • Optional Practical Training (OPT) Workshop

    Zoom

    Optional Practical Training (OPT) workshops are MANDATORY for all F-1 students who will apply for OPT, and you MUST have attended the OPT workshop within 9 months of applying for OPT. You must attend the full workshop to receive credit. Be sure to arrive on time and stay until the end, or you will not receive credit […]

  • 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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    ECE 290 Seminar: “Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors”

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

    Presented by: Young Suh Song, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University Description: “The rapid growth of information technology (IT) has led to remarkable progress in recent semiconductor technology. Transistors have become smaller so that more transistors can be packed into a chip, and today’s semiconductors even use technology that vertically stacks layers of transistors. Although this has […]

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    CM Seminar: Speaker – Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang “Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System”

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

    Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang, Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Description: Human attention has become an increasingly scarce resource in everyday digital life. People are constantly exposed to notifications, messages, news updates, social media content, and AI-generated information, all competing for limited attentional capacity. In this talk, I will share our research trajectory around […]

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    Environmental Studies Seminar Series | Exit Talk: Geospatial Optimization of California’s Organic Waste Diversion System: Transportation, Compliance, and Infrastructure Planning

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736).  If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Elliott Campbell Speaker: Siyu Luo, UC Santa Cruz, […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Spatially Varying Gene Regulatory Networks via Bayesian Nonparametric Covariate-Dependent Directed Cyclic Graphical Models

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

    Presenter: Trisha Dawn, UC Santa Cruz Description: Spatial transcriptomics technologies enable measurement of gene expression with spatial context, providing opportunities to understand how gene regulatory networks (GRNs) vary across tissue regions. Studying spatial variation in GRNs is crucial for uncovering mechanisms governing heterogeneous cellular functions and gives rise to a challenging statistical problem: graph learning […]

  • Dave Shaw (Santa Cruz, USA): Planet Local Sharing Circle

    Hosted by Local Futures In our next Planet Local Sharing Circle, we’ll be joined by Dave Shaw, founder of the Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Permaculture. The Center serves as Global Secretariat for the international Right Livelihood College network, which spans eight campuses plus the Global Campus of Human Rights across five […]

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    Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent

    Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of the video-performance Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream (Bruna Castro, Brasil, 2026), followed by a conversation between Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent around the historical, political and spiritual relations between Afro-Brazilian ancestrality, visual arts and abolition feminism in Brazil. Denise Carrascosa is a writer, […]

  • Explore Research Using AI

    Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    In this interactive session, Prof. David Lee from Computational Media will facilitate a hands-on session on using AI to explore research papers. Bring your laptops! If you do not have an AI subscription, you can get the free Gemini for Students plan and install Antigravity 2.0.

    Free
  • 100826 BME 280B Seminar Speaker Headshot Erich Weiler and Paulina Tolosa Tort

    BME 280B Seminar: Dr. Paulina Tolosa Tort, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Erich Weiler, Senior Systems Architect and Engineer

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Welcome to the second week of our BME 280B seminar series, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology, and bioinformatics. Open to all, food will be provided. Class enrollment is not required.   Please join us this week to learn more about the works of Erich Weiler and Dr. Paulina Tolosa […]