Please join us for an Anthropology Lunch Talk on October 21st at noon in SocSci1, Rm 261. Emanuele Guglielmini, a PhD candidate in archaeology at UC Berkeley’s Anthropology department, will present “Archaeobotany of an Ainu Kotan: from Ethnographic Trope to Empirical Data.”
LLM workloads are shifting from chat to agents: one task becomes tens of model calls, dispatched along a graph the harness holds and repeating the same instructions. This execution is […]
UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc., presents two very special evenings with Dr. Samuel Waymon Award-winning composer, actor, lecturer, arranger and brother […]
Welcome to the 4th week of our BME 280B seminar series, a weekly seminar covering topics of current research in computational biology and bioinformatics. Open to all, food is provided. […]
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of three short films by Patrícia Freitas about women and incarceration in Brazil, followed by a conversation with […]
UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with The African Connections Research and Education Fund, Inc., presents two very special evenings with Dr. Samuel Waymon Award-winning composer, actor, lecturer, arranger and brother […]
Title: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling Presenter: Adrian Brasoveanu, UCSC Linguistics (Joint work with Ece Takmaz and Jakub Dotlačil) Abstract: We present Relational BabyLM, a system submission to the BabyLM […]
Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black cultural memory. Together, they move through fragments of […]
Village murders! Occult conspiracies! A modern mystery tinged with the uncanny! Join the Pickwick Club as we explore Dickens and Christie across four landmark detective novels.
Presented by: Joe Dong, Co-Founder & CTO @ Chestnut Robotics Description: “Learning dexterous manipulation requires robot hardware, training environments, and data to work together. This talk explores two complementary approaches to making […]
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 […]
Presenter: Brian Trippe, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of Statistics Description: Generative models frequently suffer miscalibration, where the statistics of their generations deviate from desired values. Protein structure diffusion models, […]
Our panel will discuss the long history of redistricting in the United States, differentiate between racial gerrymandering and partisan gerrymandering, discuss the intersection of race and partisan objectives, highlight the role of recent state independent redistricting commissions and California’s Prop 50, along with exclusionary changes to the Voting Rights Act and recent actions taken by the Supreme Court.
UC Santa Cruz is bringing Science in the Neighborhood to South County! Join us for our first event in Aptos. Are we alone in the universe? Answering that question begins […]
Presented by: Quan Xiao, PhD Candidate @ Cornell University Description: “Agentic AI systems combine large language models with system-level design choices such as post-training data selection, retrieval, tool use, and memory […]
Human genome references have provided unified coordinate systems for mapping genetic variation, enabling numerous discoveries in genomics. However, mapping to a single linear reference can be misleading or even impossible […]
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 […]
Presenter: Enter the speaker’s name, title, and institution at the top of the event Description: Optimal transport (OT) provides a principled way to match, compare, and interpolate distributions, but its […]
Presenter: Reza Fazel-Rezai, Senior Science and Education Application Engineer, MathWorks Description: Please join us to learn how to accelerate data analysis using a workflow that spans low-code tools, Generative AI, […]
Steering living systems toward a desired behavior is a central goal in synthetic and quantitative biology. Levers of control range from electric fields and optogenetic stimulation to engineered gene circuits, […]