Your Next Degree: Graduate School
Careers and academic interests often evolve over time, and many people choose to pursue graduate education after gaining experience in the workforce or further exploring their fields. Whether you are […]
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“So, There We Were…” – Celebrating the Untold Stories Behind the Discoveries
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTo celebrate another year of profound discoveries, uplifting unheard voices, and opening up the world for the next generation of students, the Academic Senate is planning a year-end celebratory event on Wednesday, May 27, 5-7:30 pm (week 9), at the Haybarn. But lest you think this is yet one more end-of-year academic event with mind-numbing […]
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Build better chips
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesVerify faster. Build better chips. Semiconductor Design Info Session Explore the fast-paced world of semiconductor design and verification, and how advanced tools—including AI—are transforming the industry. At this info session, instructor Mandar Munishwar, a formal verification architect at the Intel Data Center and AI Division, will discuss his SystemVerilog Assertions and Formal Verification course which prepares you to write […]
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Oh, S. (CSE) – Efficient Instruction Supply for Datacenter Processors
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventModern datacenter CPUs lose 25–66% of execution cycles to instruction-delivery stalls. This bottleneck persists, despite the recent trend towards accelerators and GPUs, as there is continuing demand by applications that […]
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BME 280B Seminar: 4th Year Grad Talks
Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin DrivePlease join us for our BME 280B seminar series Thursday (5/28/26) in person at Biomed 200. The event will run from 11:40 AM to 1:15 PM and feature our 4th […]
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Ortiz Barbosa, D. (CSE) – HARDENING AUTONOMOUS CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS AGAINST ADVERSARIAL CONDITIONS
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAAutonomous systems, such as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and drones, are increasingly deployed across a wider array of contexts for both civilian and military use. As these systems become more common, […]
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Yang, D. (CSE) – Inner Monologue: a Pathway to Human-Like Reasoning for Complex Tasks
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesHybrid EventA central goal on the path toward general AI is to build systems capable of deliberative reasoning before action. Such systems should inspect what they know, identify what they need, […]
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Educational Therapy Program Info Session
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesTransform learning Join Diana Black Kennedy, chair of UCSC Silicon Valley’s Educational Therapy certificate 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, […]
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Zhou, K. (CSE) – Toward Safer Frontier AI: From Evaluation and Red-Teaming to Alignment and Oversight
Virtual EventThis dissertation investigates how to make modern AI systems safer as they grow more capable. It addresses two central sources of risk: malicious misuse, in which adversarial users coerce models […]
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Qureshi, A. (ECE) – ISoC: A Universal Impedance Spectroscopy Instrument-on-Chip in SKY130 130 nm CMOS
Virtual EventElectrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is the workhorse measurement behind lithium-ion battery diagnostics, biosensing, and corrosion science — yet no integrated circuit has ever delivered the complete capability of a benchtop […]
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Insurance, Risk, and Resilience in a Changing World
Virtual EventClimate change is reshaping every system it touches. This panel examines one that most people haven’t much considered in climate terms: insurance. When the industry built to share risk retreats […]
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BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and […]
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Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventThis dissertation investigates how neuromorphic and brain-inspired principles can guide the design of efficient neural language architectures. It addresses two central limitations of modern Transformer-based language models: memory growth with […]
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Making an Exoneree Showcase
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to Making an Exoneree, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, UC Santa Cruz Description: Recently, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development, thus creating an increasingly large gap between user demand and the supply that the semiconductor industry can deliver. In this talk, we will discuss the unique […]
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CM Seminar – Alex Olwal, “Human-Centered Augmentation: Interacting with Matter, Humans, and Machines”
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresented by: Alex Olwal Description: “In this talk, I will share my perspectives on the evolution and future of human-centered augmentation, through the lens of two decades of research and development. Drawing from experiences across academia and industry, I will discuss insights from having led projects in augmented reality, accessibility, electronic textiles, novel sensing and […]
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Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAHost: ENVS Personnel Committee Groundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) to support state goals of sustainable and equitable management. However, court adjudicated basins that encompass over 8,000 square miles and are home to nearly 11 […]
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AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When this control fails, diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and fatty liver disease result. One key control mechanism is allosteric regulation, where a small molecule binds […]
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Discover Bioinformatics: Data, Biology & Innovation
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesLead the next wave of innovation in life sciences and data As biotechnology and data analytics converge, the demand for professionals who can interpret complex biological data and drive discovery continues to grow. Learn how experts in bioinformatics use computational tools, programming, and molecular biology to transform raw data into scientific and medical insights. Your […]
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Sheaves, T. (CSE) – Timing Side-Channels in Commercial ReRAM: Toward ReRAM Pentimenti
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventRecently, a class of non-invasive hardware side-channel attacks has been discovered in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These attacks extract remnants of prior users’ activity that persist as transistor defect states within reconfigurable routing resources. These remnants are known as FPGA Pentimenti. Resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) is a compelling candidate for pentimenti-like attacks beyond FPGAs. However, […]