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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION: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 on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-30/
LOCATION:Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, 2 Hagar Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION: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 on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-07-31/
LOCATION:Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, 2 Hagar Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:The Dickens Universe featuring 'Bleak House'
DESCRIPTION: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 on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels\, usually (but not always) one by Charles Dickens. In 2026\, the Dickens Universe will feature Bleak House by Charles Dickens. \nDickens’s ninth novel\, published between 1852-1853\, shines a light on social injustice and the devastating effects of a corrupt legal system\, following the entangled lives of those caught in the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce case. Told in alternating narrative voices\, this rich literary experiment plays with a variety of genres from detective fiction and social realism to melodrama and satire. As characters move from city to suburb\, from mansions to slums\, we discover unexpected connections among classes\, plots\, and characters. \nNow in its 46th year of operation\, the Dickens Universe combines features of a scholarly conference\, a festival\, a book club\, and a summer camp. Participants include people of all ages and walks of life—distinguished scholars\, graduate students\, undergraduates\, retirees\, young professionals\, high school teachers\, and anyone who loves reading and enjoys long Victorian novels. \nHere are some things that make the Universe such a special experience. \n\nThe college lifestyle: participants live on campus\, eat together in the student dining hall\, and have time to meet and come to know each other in different ways.\nEveryone is reading the same book. We all have this one important thing in common.\nThe activities include formal lectures\, small discussion groups\, films\, daily Victorian teas\, performances\, and Victorian dancing.\n\nThe Universe offers a week of total immersion in the world of Victorian fiction with friendly\, like-minded colleagues in a beautiful setting. Whether we’re returning to a Dickens novel that everyone knows and loves\, or branching out into a Victorian novel by another author who might be less familiar\, during the Universe we build a community out of our passion for reading\, talking with one another\, and bringing Victorian culture to life. \n\nView the complete schedule\nRegistration options\nPlenary Lecturers and Guest Scholars
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-dickens-universe-featuring-bleak-house/2026-08-01/
LOCATION:Humanities and Social Sciences Facility\, 2 Hagar Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION: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 and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-08-01/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Cameras and Other Methods for Assessing Backyard Biodiversity
DESCRIPTION: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\, habitat requirements\, and challenges species face across dynamic landscapes. Answer the question: What does biodiversity mean to you? \nREGISTER \nFree for UCSC students; please email agroecology@ucsc.edu to register as a student.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/wildlife-cameras-and-other-methods-for-assessing-backyard-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Le\, A. (STAT) -  Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis of Densities for Replicated Point Patterns
DESCRIPTION: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 point process stochastic mechanism is characterized by the total intensity and a density with compact support. Flexible\, parsimonious weighted combinations of beta densities represent both the baseline and the replicate-specific densities. The weights corresponding to each replicate encode the features that characterize its density and are pooled hierarchically across replicates to estimate the shared baseline. Throughout\, we illustrate the framework using bike-share demand at a Chicago Divvy station\, where weekly demand shares a common daily pattern while its features evolve across weeks. \nWe lay the foundation with a conditionally independent model\, relating the replicates through a Dirichlet process prior centered on the shared baseline. The model admits a Pólya urn representation that yields fully conjugate posterior updates and partially parallel computation across replicates. Inference proceeds at both the shared and replicate-specific levels\, and predictive inference on the density of demand for a new week follows readily through the baseline. \nMoving to a dynamic extension\, we use the representation of the replicate-specific discrete random distributions to express structured dependence separately through the atoms and the weights. Stochastic processes on these components relate the locations of density features and their relative importance. The weights follow a geometric construction that keeps the model parsimonious. For the atoms\, we develop a novel stochastic process with the baseline as its marginal distribution\, so its interpretation is unchanged under temporal dependence. Across the Divvy weeks\, the contributions of these two forms of dependence are visible in the forecast uncertainty\, and both forecast the weekly densities more precisely than the conditionally independent model. \nFinally\, we model the full intensity of the underlying nonhomogeneous Poisson process by exploiting its factorization into a total intensity and a density. The factorization keeps the likelihood tractable and separates the volume of demand from its shape across the day. The dynamic density model carries directly over\, while the total intensity follows a stationary autoregressive process centered hierarchically on a baseline total intensity. This gives a baseline intensity\, extending the idea from densities to intensities. In the Divvy application\, the model yields smoother intensity estimates and sharper forecasts of the weekly intensities. \nThe common thread throughout the framework is the preservation of the baseline\, which retains the same interpretation as dependence and intensity modeling are introduced. Together\, the models give a unified characterization of the shared\, replicate-specific\, and dynamic structure of replicated point patterns. \nEvent Host: Andrew Le\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Statistical Science \nAdvisor: Athanasios Kottas \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94954212320?pwd=lmcDG6LvDQTb73BOE2NqabU9M2Uzms.1 \nPasscode: 772566 \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/le-a-stat-bayesian-nonparametric-analysis-of-densities-for-replicated-point-patterns/
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SUMMARY:Zhao\, Z. (CSE) - TOWARD VERIFIABLE REASONING IN LLMS
DESCRIPTION: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 failures. The completed work evaluates direct zero-shot and few-shot auto-formalization pipelines for quantity- and logic-focused reasoning problems\, measuring proof type-check rate\, theorem-statement validity\, assumption faithfulness\, and repair behavior. The ongoing work extends this pipeline with AMR-guided semantic representations and altered-rationale stress tests. The planned work proposes methods of modeling LLM Agent thinking in Lean. Together\, these components separate two questions that are often conflated: whether a model translated the reasoning into the right formal goal\, and whether that goal can be proved once translated. The research goal is to develop an evaluation framework and a tool-supported workflow to improve the reliability\, auditability\, and semantic faithfulness of LLM reasoning. \nEvent Host: Zekun Zhao\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Jeffrey Flanigan \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96068207641?pwd=anTpLhBXhIdaIhXKDTB32HlDMA6uIO.1 \nPasscode: 656037
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/zhao-z-cse-toward-verifiable-reasoning-in-llms/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:August Slugs and Steins with Professor Barbara Rogoff
DESCRIPTION:Learning to be Community-Minded\nHow 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 values of relationality and responsibility\, which are commonly enacted in everyday family and community life. An important practice in many Indigenous-heritage communities of the Americas is including children collaboratively in the endeavors of family and community life even in the youngest years. In the process\, young children often collaborate skillfully and help without being asked\, developing community-mindedness through their shared contributions. \nBarbara Rogoff is UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UCSC. She investigates cultural aspects of children’s learning and how communities arrange for learning\, finding especially sophisticated collaboration\, attention\, and community-mindedness among children from some Mexican and Indigenous communities of the Americas. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education\, and a Fellow of professional organizations in psychology\, anthropology\, and education. She has received Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Awards from international research organizations as well as the Chemers Award for Outstanding Research\, from UCSC. She has held the University of California Presidential Chair and Fellowships of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Kellogg Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, and the Exploratorium\, and served as Editor of Human Development. A cat that lives at a University in Pakistan is named in her honor (the cat’s name: “Doctor Barbara Rogoff”). Her award-winning books include Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community; The Cultural Nature of Human Development; and Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town. \nREGISTER
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/august-slugs-and-steins-with-professor-barbara-rogoff/
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SUMMARY:Chat with the AI Chair
DESCRIPTION:AI is advancing faster than ever. Join Praveen Krishna\, chair of the AI Program Advisory Board\, for a discussion of the latest developments shaping the field\, from Agentic AI and AI orchestration to enterprise deployment\, emerging regulations\, local AI models\, and breakthrough innovations. \nThis is a monthly conversation series. Each session highlights timely trends and concludes with an interactive Q&A. \nClaim your seat today. \n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about the courses and offerings available through our UCSC Silicon Valley Extension AI Application Development program.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/chat-with-the-ai-chair/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Working Hard Isn’t Enough: The Unspoken Rules That Shape Your Career
DESCRIPTION:Working Hard Isn’t Enough: The Unspoken Rules That Shape Your Career With Ricky Koo\nThursday\, Aug. 13\, 2026 | Noon PT \nVirtual via Zoom \nHosted by UCLA Alumni Association\, open to all UC alumni \nAs a first-generation immigrant\, career coach Ricky Koo was taught to work hard\, stay humble\, and let results speak. Sound familiar? \nHere’s the thing: You can be great at your job and still be misunderstood\, overlooked or underestimated. \nIn this webinar\, Ricky Koo — a first-generation immigrant who rose through the ranks to become a corporate executive before building his own professional coaching business — breaks down what actually shapes how you’re perceived at work\, and how to take control of your professional narrative without being fake\, loud or political in ways that feel misaligned. This isn’t about self-promotion. It’s about self-definition. \nLearn More & Register
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/working-hard-isnt-enough-the-unspoken-rules-that-shape-your-career/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Krishnaswamy\, L. (CSE) - Network Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Datacenters
DESCRIPTION:As datacenters scale up and become more geographically distributed\, wide-area network inter-datacenter traffic\, which typically consists of data-heavy tasks\, has become increasingly prevalent. Some of the noteworthy challenges raised by the coexistence and interaction between inter- and intra-datacenter traffic are the differences in their QoS requirements\, link utilization\, and round-trip times. To the best of our knowledge\, these challenges have not yet been addressed by current datacenter load balancers. To highlight this gap\, we conducted a comparative performance study of state-of-the-art datacenter load balancers. Through extensive simulations\, we study how they perform under different network topologies and workloads\, including intra-datacenter\, inter-datacenter\, and mixed intra- and inter-datacenter workloads that reflect how datacenters have evolved to keep up with their continuously changing driving application landscape. Our study shows that current load balancers are not able to adequately distribute load under inter-DC workloads as well as mixed intra- and inter-datacenter traffic coexistence.\nMotivated by our observations\, we introduce Balancia\, a transport agnostic\, lightweight network load balancer that dynamically switches between per-flow and per-packet control in order to provide adequate performance for both intra- and inter-DC traffic given their different characteristics and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. We show that\, when compared against state-of-the-art load balancers\, Balancia achieves close to 80% reduction in the 99% tail flow completion times for inter-datacenter traffic in the presence of intra- and inter-datacenter workload coexistence. Further in this work\, we explore proactively monitoring for congestion with the help of phantom queues and rerouting flows in a timely manner. Through Balancia2.0 we decouple congestion control and load balancing signaling\, and examine its effects on DC and WAN traffic. \nEvent Host: Lakshmi Krishnaswamy\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Katia Obraczka \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94414934371?pwd=7P3Umt0QQ930ESV02jMvCVHVbkIp9r.1 \nPasscode: 905786
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/krishnaswamy-l-cse-network-load-balancing-for-geographically-distributed-datacenters/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260814T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260814T161500
DTSTAMP:20260810T163804Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T163804Z
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SUMMARY:Aliamooei Lakeh\, S. (ECE) - Optimization and Decision-Support Frameworks for Resilient Power Systems Under Large-Scale Electrification
DESCRIPTION:The rapid electrification of transportation is creating new interdependencies between power and transportation systems\, particularly during extreme events and disasters. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increases\, evacuation-related charging demand\, infrastructure disruptions\, and limited access to energy resources introduce challenges that conventional power system planning and operation frameworks were not designed to address. Wildfires provide a critical example: transmission outages and public safety power shutoffs can reduce network capacity while evacuation simultaneously concentrates charging demand along affected transportation corridors. Improving resilience therefore requires coordinated decision-making across the full disaster lifecycle\, from infrastructure preparedness to emergency operation and post-disaster recovery.\nThis research develops optimization and decision-support methods for resilient power systems under large-scale transportation electrification\, addressing three complementary stages of resilience. First\, the research will extend existing infrastructure planning models through a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming framework for the strategic siting and sizing of distributed generation\, energy storage systems\, and EV charging infrastructure under disaster uncertainty. Second\, building on a developed single-period nonlinear AC optimal power flow formulation\, the research will extend the framework to multi-period operation to coordinate priority-based EV evacuation charging with mobile EV charger dispatch during grid contingencies while explicitly representing voltage and thermal operating constraints. Third\, a mixed-integer routing and scheduling framework is proposed for the deployment of mobile energy resources\, including energy tankers and vehicle-to-everything (V2X)-capable fleets\, to support electric transportation and critical loads when conventional infrastructure is disrupted.\nTogether\, these components connect long-term infrastructure planning\, emergency grid operation\, and post-disaster energy recovery within an integrated optimization and decision-support framework. The research will build on preliminary results obtained using IEEE benchmark systems and will incorporate California case studies representing wildfire and flooding scenarios. Resilience will be evaluated using technical and operational metrics such as load not served\, priority-weighted EV energy served\, and recovery time. The overall goal is to provide decision-support tools for utilities\, transportation agencies\, and emergency planners to support resilient planning\, operation\, and recovery in increasingly electrified energy and transportation systems. \nEvent Host: Saeed Aliamooei Lakeh\, Ph.D. Student\, Electrical & Computer Engineering \nAdvisors: Keith Corzine and Leila Parsa \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95295718011?pwd=1Y5vBhoBX9V5OVQ3MJzy4FgyhtO9eb.1 \nPasscode: 545834
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/aliamooei-lakeh-s-ece-optimization-and-decision-support-frameworks-for-resilient-power-systems-under-large-scale-electrification/
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CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T120000
DTSTAMP:20260810T162940Z
CREATED:20260810T162940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260810T162940Z
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SUMMARY:Nikolakakis\, M. (ECE) - Learned Gridless Representations of Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scans
DESCRIPTION:Medical image representation has long been dominated by voxel-grid matrices. While\ntheir inherent structure and order work efficiently for various linear transformations and\nprovide a seamless visualization method on monitors\, they fail to preserve the topology\nof the scan and to encode sparse information in a memory-efficient way.   The recent emergence of machine learning-based continuous coordinate-based\nscene representations such as neural radiance fields and Gaussian splatting has provided alternative representation techniques. These approaches overfit the weights of\na model by iterative differentiable rendering and have been shown to be more compact than grid representations. They are then able to perform novel view\nsynthesis from any given camera pose.\nOff-grid representations translate directly to Cone Beam Computed Tomography\nsparse-view acquisitions\, where streaking and quantum noise artifacts are dominant.\nUsing differentiable rendering\, a continuous representation is achieved\, with interpolation providing a path to recover some of the lost signal.\nIn this dissertation\, we apply a variety of methodologies\, including Gaussian splatting\, implicit occupancy fields\, and Neural Attenuation Fields regularized with an\nanatomic prior\, to Cone Beam Computed Tomography reconstruction\, and evaluate\ntheir performance across a range of anatomic datasets. Our models show that learned\ngridless representations achieve substantial memory reduction\, recover signal under\nextreme view sparsity\, and preserve scene topology. \nEvent Host: Manolis Nikolakakis\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Electrical and Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Razvan Marinescu \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/5964517596?pwd=c1AwRlJLNk5pVzFBUENibEw3by85Zz09
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/nikolakakis-m-ece-learned-gridless-representations-of-cone-beam-computed-tomography-scans/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260817T190000
DTSTAMP:20260730T192605Z
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SUMMARY:Build better chips
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an interactive discussion on current industry trends\, emerging skills\, and career opportunities\, and learn how our Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering courses are designed to help professionals build expertise\, stay competitive\, and achieve their educational and career goals. \nWhether you’re looking to advance in your current role\, transition into a new field\, or expand your knowledge\, this session is a great place to start. \nYour speaker\nArvind Vidyarthi –  M.S.E.E. is vice president of Silicon Design Engineering at Altera\, where he leads SoC and IP physical design implementation\, methodology\, and automation. Arvind has served since 2022 as chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering program\, where he also sits on the VLSI engineering advisory group and mentors the next generation of design engineers. \nKeep learning\nThe Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering program presents this information session. Visit our program page for complete program details and a closer look at all upcoming courses. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/build-better-chips-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260818T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260818T110000
DTSTAMP:20260810T162245Z
CREATED:20260810T162245Z
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SUMMARY:Gutie\, J. (SciCAM) -  SORh: Hyperbolic Relaxation Methods For Elliptic Problems In Computational Fluid Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:This thesis explores iterative methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs)\, which are used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model a wide range of physical phenomena. The primary application of interest here is self-gravity\, modeled by Poisson’s equation. Although many numerical approaches exist\, including direct matrix inversion\, FFT-based methods\, and classical iterative methods such as Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel\, these approaches involve tradeoffs in computational cost\, scalability\, implementation complexity\, and adaptability to changing boundary conditions and problem configurations. \nTherefore\, we introduce SORh\, a simple and efficient relaxation method derived from a hyperbolic reformulation of Poisson’s equation. SORh generalizes classical successive over-relaxation (SOR) by providing independent control of residual relaxation and the directional propagation of Gauss–Seidel corrections. We present formulations of SORh in one and two spatial dimensions and investigate its stability\, accuracy\, and computational performance through analytical derivations and numerical comparisons with established relaxation methods. The results identify favorable SORh formulations\, clarify their relationships to classical relaxation methods\, and demonstrate improved convergence on selected test problems. Finally\, we demonstrate applications of SORh to astrophysical self-gravity simulations in the FLASH code and to magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) divergence cleaning. \nEvent Host: Jonathan Guite\, M.S. Candidate\, Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics  \nAdvisor: Dongwook Lee \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92153750104?pwd=ZdLiDZeLqOAlVNX9C4bCloKno9tAeB.1 \nPasscode: 769232
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/gutie-j-scicam-sorh-hyperbolic-relaxation-methods-for-elliptic-problems-in-computational-fluid-dynamics/
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CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T190000
DTSTAMP:20260722T235945Z
CREATED:20260722T235746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260722T235945Z
UID:10015113-1787248800-1787252400@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io
SUMMARY:Become a Special Education Teacher Assistant
DESCRIPTION:Interested in becoming a Special Education Teacher Assistant? \nJoin us for an informative session to explore the courses designed to prepare you for success in inclusive and special education classrooms. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum\, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand\, highlight career opportunities\, and answer your questions about getting started. \nYour speaker\nSharmila Roy\, Ph.D.\, began her teaching journey in India and pursued further training in the United Kingdom before earning her doctorate in Special Education from the University of Buffalo in New York. She brings over three decades of expertise in special education to her role as program chair of the Special Education Teacher Assistant certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. \nKeep learning\nThis session is hosted by the Special Education Teacher Assistant program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/become-a-special-education-teacher-assistant/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T190000
DTSTAMP:20260730T195214Z
CREATED:20260730T195214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T195214Z
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SUMMARY:How to Apply to the Premed Postbacc Program
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle\, which opens August 7. We’ll also discuss the application process\, admissions timeline\, coursework\, advising\, MCAT preparation\, and more. \nYou’ll have plenty of time to ask questions and connect directly with program staff. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/how-to-apply-to-the-premed-postbacc-program-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260824T190000
DTSTAMP:20260730T193915Z
CREATED:20260730T193915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T193915Z
UID:10015121-1787594400-1787598000@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io
SUMMARY:Empowering humans through AI
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an inside look at how our AI Application Development courses provide hands‑on experience\, industry‑driven projects\, and the technical foundation you need to advance your career as an ML Engineer\, MLOps Engineer\, or Applied AI Researcher. \nYour speaker\nKavitha Velusamy\, Ph.D.\, brings more than 20 years of experience developing cutting-edge technologies at Amazon\, NVIDIA\, Cisco\, Leia Inc.\, and Robust.AI. Kavitha currently serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Robust.AI and teaches Humanoid Robotics (Sept. 19) and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics (Sept. 26). \nKeep learning\nSee our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/empowering-humans-through-ai/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260825T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260825T130000
DTSTAMP:20260812T161153Z
CREATED:20260812T161153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260812T161153Z
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SUMMARY:Gomez\, J. (CSE) - Toward Sustainable and Secure Open Source Software: Discovery\, Measurement\, and Defense
DESCRIPTION:In March 2024\, a backdoor was discovered in xz Utils\, a widely used open source data compression library present in nearly every major Linux distribution. The attack was discovered days before merging into major distributions\, and if this had happened\, it would have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on millions of systems worldwide via SSH. \nThe success of this backdoor was enabled by two failures. The first was technical: weaknesses in the software supply chain allowed a malicious actor to inject code into a widely trusted release. The second was human: the project’s only maintainer\, overwhelmed and burned out after years of maintaining critical infrastructure alone\, was the target of a multi-year social engineering campaign\, in which a malicious actor built trust under a false identity and gradually obtained commit access to the project. This incident shows that software security failures and sustainability failures are not independent: an overburdened\, unsupported maintainer is itself an attack surface. \nAcademic and scientific open source software (OSS) faces both of these crises simultaneously. Projects that critical infrastructure depends on are maintained by researchers\, students\, and faculty who contribute in their spare time\, without dedicated security training or institutional support. Existing security frameworks including NIST’s SSDF\, OWASP’s SCVS\, and SLSA were not designed with these communities in mind\, and policy efforts such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act have shown that mandates developed without community input risk harming the ecosystems they are meant to protect. \nThis dissertation addresses the sustainability and security of academic open source software through two parallel empirical research tracks. The sustainability track combines GitHub’s REST API with LLM-based filtering to discover and characterize over 216\,000 institutionally affiliated repositories across 32 academic and research institutions\, finding that while 84\% include a README\, only 23.4% carry a detectable license and fewer than 2% include a Contributing Guide. Building on this dataset\, we develop a maturity-staged sustainability framework that classifies projects into four lifecycle stages and generates targeted recommendations for Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs). \nThe security track examines whether post-9/11 trade security programs offer a workable model for OSS supply-chain policy\, finding that effective frameworks require voluntary incentives and direct community engagement rather than top-down mandates. We further evaluate five large language models on the OWASP Benchmark for vulnerability triage\, finding that o1-mini reduces false positives by 20% over the Semgrep baseline\, demonstrating the potential for automation to reduce the security burden on individual maintainers. \nTogether\, these contributions treat sustainability and security as interconnected problems. A project that cannot sustain itself cannot secure its code\, and this dissertation takes steps toward closing both gaps. \n  \nEvent Host: Juanita Gomez\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Alvaro Cardenas  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/91057980344?pwd=XMMjHZVgbbLXfwxKehrTEbat18066o.1 \nPasscode: 292091
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/gomez-j-cse-toward-sustainable-and-secure-open-source-software-discovery-measurement-and-defense/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260825T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260825T190000
DTSTAMP:20260730T193526Z
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SUMMARY:Designing for Today's Digital World
DESCRIPTION:Design digital experiences people love to use.\nIn 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. \nSpeaker\nJoin Nicole Sharratt\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension User Experience & Web Design program\, for an inside look at how our courses equip you with the skills to lead user‑centered design projects—whether you’re shaping websites\, apps or digital products. \nKeep learning\nSee our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/designing-for-todays-digital-world-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T130000
DTSTAMP:20260724T203354Z
CREATED:20260724T203354Z
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SUMMARY:Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation
DESCRIPTION:Where biology meets Big Data\nJoin us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis\, genomics\, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech\, pharmaceuticals\, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum\, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand\, highlight career opportunities\, and answer your questions about getting started. \nYour speaker\nDarryl A. León\, Ph.D.\, director\, Software Portfolio Strategy at Agilent Technologies\, has over 10 years of experience leading product management teams\, launching customer-focused products\, and partnering with R&D groups to deliver high-quality software\, hardware\, and cloud-based solutions that support academic\, biopharma\, and clinical research markets. He has served as chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics Advisory Committee since 2025. \nKeep learning\nThis session is hosted by the Bioinformatics program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bioinformatics-lead-the-next-wave-of-innovation-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T130000
DTSTAMP:20260730T193155Z
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SUMMARY:Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation
DESCRIPTION:Where biology meets Big Data\nJoin us for an inside look at how our Bioinformatics courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis\, genomics\, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech\, pharmaceuticals\, and healthcare. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum\, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand\, highlight career opportunities\, and answer your questions about getting started. \nYour speaker\nDarryl A. León\, Ph.D.\, has over 10 years of experience leading product management teams\, launching customer-focused products\, and partnering with R&D groups to deliver high-quality software\, hardware\, and cloud-based solutions that support academic\, biopharma\, and clinical research markets. He has served as chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics Advisory Committee since 2025. \nKeep learning\nThis session is hosted by the Bioinformatics program. Visit our program page for additional details and a closer look at all upcoming courses. \n  \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bioinformatics-lead-the-next-wave-of-innovation-3/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260826T190000
DTSTAMP:20260803T190749Z
CREATED:20260803T190749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T190749Z
UID:10015125-1787767200-1787770800@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io
SUMMARY:Where Hardware Meets Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Embedded Systems: Build the Intelligence Behind the Hardware\nJoin Juergen Kienhoefer to explore the foundations of embedded systems and how firmware powers the devices we use every day—plus get an introduction to how AI is transforming the field. \nLearn how our UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Embedded Systems courses prepare you to develop low-level software\, interface with hardware components\, and build reliable real-time applications for microcontrollers and embedded platforms\, while gaining insight into emerging trends like AI at the edge. Discover how the hands-on courses can help advance your career in embedded systems engineering. \nYour speaker\nJuergen Kienhoefer\, instructor of the AI-Driven Embedded Systems course\, also teaches Linux Systems Programming\, which kicks off Sept. 25. \nKeep learning\nExplore our program page and course catalog to see the full course lineup. \n  \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/where-hardware-meets-intelligence-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260827T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260827T130000
DTSTAMP:20260730T195950Z
CREATED:20260730T195950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T195950Z
UID:10015123-1787832000-1787835600@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io
SUMMARY:Advance your Career in Medical Device Design & Quality
DESCRIPTION:From discovery to market\nJoin Kiran Gulati\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program\, for an inside look at how our courses provide hands-on training\, practical case studies\, and industry-relevant skills that prepare you for roles in quality engineering\, regulatory compliance\, and design assurance. \n\n\n\n\nSponsor\nThis info session is sponsored by the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program. \n\nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/advance-your-career-in-medical-device-design-quality/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Educational Therapy Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Transform learning\nJoin Diana Black Kennedy\, chair of UCSC Silicon Valley’s Educational Therapy program\, to learn how this distinctive program prepares educators and professionals to create meaningful\, lasting impact. As one of the few programs approved by the Association of Educational Therapists (AET)\, it equips you with the skills to assess learning differences and implement research-based\, effective interventions with confidence. \nEmpower students and build your practice\nGain skills to support students with learning differences like dyslexia\, ADHD\, and autism using therapeutic and educational strategies. Whether you’re working in schools or starting a private practice\, this program helps you create individualized plans that foster meaningful progress. \nThis info session is sponsored by the Educational Therapy Program. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/educational-therapy-program-info-session-3/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260831T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260831T130000
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SUMMARY:What's new in clinical research careers?
DESCRIPTION:Building safety into innovation\nIn this information session\, you’ll gain insight into current industry trends\, emerging skills\, and career opportunities. We’ll dive into how our Clinical Trials Design and Management program is designed to help professionals build expertise\, stay competitive\, and achieve their educational and career goals. \nWhether you’re looking to advance in your current role\, transition into a new field\, or expand your knowledge\, this session is a great place to start. \nYour speaker\nKarim Sajwani\, M.P.H.\, CCRA\, executive director and head of clinical operations at Henlius USA\, Inc.\, has more than 25 years of experience in clinical drug development in the areas of cardiovascular\, dermatology\, infectious disease\, oncology\, ophthalmology\, neuropathy\, and respiratory illness. Karim has been serving as chair of the Clinical Trials Design and Management program since 2025. \nKeep learning\nSee our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/whats-new-in-clinical-research-careers-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260901T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260901T110000
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SUMMARY:Shen\, J. (STAT) - Bayesian Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification for Verbal Autopsy Data
DESCRIPTION:Verbal autopsy (VA) is a well developed tool to collect information describing deaths outside of hospitals by conducting surveys to the relatives and caregivers of the deceased person. It is routinely-implemented in low and middle income countries\, where it often lacks sufficient resources to conduct the autopsy. The main task is to estimate both individual level cause-of-death probabilities and population level cause-specific mortality fractions. In this document\, we present three projects dealing with challenges current VA modeling faces. In the first project\, we build a shared latent class model for verbal autopsy\, which allows causes to share common symptom patterns. A truncated Bayesian nonparametric prior allows the number of latent classes to adapt to data\, while retaining a computationally tractable representation. We provide a general framework for few-shot learning of the VA data\, where limited labels can be combined in analysis with a potentially much larger collection of unlabeled symptom profile. Two complementary factorizations are considered to account for different types of distribution shift between source and target. In the second project\, we develop a conformal prediction procedure for verbal autposy. For each death\, we generate a conformal prediction set from existing VA model outputs\, which guarantees a marginal coverage of true cause from a fequentist perspective. We also investigate conformal Bayesian procedures that more directly incorporate posterior uncertainty from Bayesian VA models. In the third project\, we consider situations where source and target do not share a common cause list. We propose methods using repulsive priors to identify deaths in the target domain whose symptom profiles are not adequately represented by the known causes in the source domain. \nEvent Host: Jibo Shen\, Ph.D. Student\, Statistical Science \nAdvisor: Zehang Richard Li \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94158273558?pwd=VZORHL8P5O9bfb5JpSMZAL1DOM44uC.1&jst=2 \nPasscode:  294401
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/shen-j-stat-bayesian-modeling-and-uncertainty-quantification-for-verbal-autopsy-data/
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CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260902T190000
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SUMMARY:Transform your workplace with practical AI skills.
DESCRIPTION:Explore how to lead with AI—whether you want to build it or apply it.\nIn this information session\, discover two dynamic pathways: AI Business Practices\, for professionals seeking practical AI tools to boost productivity without coding\, and AI Engineer\, for those ready to design and deploy production-ready AI systems. Learn how generative AI\, automation\, and intelligent agents are transforming today’s workplace—and how you can be part of that change. \nSpeaker\nJoin Hien Luu\, Program Chair and Head of Machine Learning Infrastructure at Zoox\, for an inside look at how our courses help you build prompt‑engineering know‑how\, ethical AI awareness\, and productivity‑boosting workflows—so you can lead AI‑driven change in your organization. \nKeep learning\nSee our course page for a closer look at all upcoming offerings. \nCLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY. 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/transform-your-workplace-with-practical-ai-skills/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260905T110000
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SUMMARY:First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION: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 and mammals that make this land their home or about the amazing physical adaptations that plants have evolved to better deal with our extreme weather and climate conditions. Tours are free with paid admission.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/first-saturday-tour-at-the-arboretum/2026-09-05/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260924T193000
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SUMMARY:Science in the Neighborhood - Extrasolar planets and astrobiology: 30 years of discovery
DESCRIPTION:Presentation by Natalie Batalha\, Professor\, UC Santa Cruz\nThe presentation will be followed by a live Q&A. \nThe event is in-person only. Free and open to the public. More info coming soon. \nSeptember 24\, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 p.m. Location TBD \nScience In the Neighborhood is a public lecture series hosted quarterly by the UC Santa Cruz Science Division.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/science-in-the-neighborhood-extrasolar-planets-and-astrobiology-thirty-years-of-discovery/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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