BME 280B Seminar: Valery Ortiz and Joseph Cruz
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. […]
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Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA
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CSE Colloquium: Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling
FeaturedEngineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CATitle: 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 […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: “Learning Dexterous Manipulation: From Simulation to Human Demonstrations”
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresented 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 robotic hands learnable: training in simulation and learning from human demonstrations. First, I will present Aero Hand Open, an open-source tendon-driven hand developed with a […]
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Statistics Seminar: Calibration Methods for Generative Models with Application to Protein Structure Modeling
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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, for example, produce highly realistic samples but often underestimate the probabilities of important modes. These deviations are not addressed by existing fine-tuning methods for image […]
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ECE Special Seminar: “Bilevel Optimization for Agentic AI: From Theory to Retrieval-augmented Agentic Reinforcement Learning”
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresented 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 management in augmented inference. Training these systems involves multiple coupled objectives beyond task success, including safety, retrieval quality, and adaptation efficiency. Sequential tuning can cause […]
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Statistics Seminar: Sliced Optimal Transport: From Acceleration to Bayesian Modeling
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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 computational cost limits its use at realistic scales. I will present our recent work on reducing that cost and on using OT for statistical modeling […]
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AM Seminar: Data Analysis Workflow from Low-Code Tools to Generative and Agentic AI
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: 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, and Agentic AI. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you’ll see how to import, explore, visualize, model, and process data using interactive tools that require […]
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AM Seminar: Enhanced Resolution Imaging in Strongly Scattering Media
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Chrysoula Tsogka, Professor, Applied Mathematics, UC Merced Description: In a strongly scattering medium, waves undergo multiple scattering that is usually seen as an obstacle to imaging. Time-reversal experiments show the opposite: waves re-emitted into the medium refocus on their source more sharply than in a homogeneous medium, because scattering makes the array appear larger […]
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Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal
Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 moreUCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range of the River: Asia’s Great River Systems and the Making of a Transregional World on Monday, November 16, 2026 from 3:30-5:00pm PST in Room 210, […]
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Statistics Seminar: Evolutionary Analysis of Biobank-Scale Data to Study Population History, Mutation Rates, Natural Selection, and the Genetics of Complex Traits
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Joshua Schraiber, Research Scientist, University of Southern California and Cornell University Description: The advent of biobank data has presented an unprecedented opportunity to understand the evolutionary history of the human species. By collecting genotype data from hundreds of thousands of individuals, we can look closely at recent evolutionary history, including recent demography, mutation rates, […]
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AM Seminar: Heat Transport and Scalar Dissipation in Turbulent Flows: A Constructive Approach
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Anuj Kumar, Assistant Professor, UC Davis Description: Turbulent flows can transport heat and momentum much more efficiently than pure molecular diffusion alone. What flow structures enable this efficient transport and how can they sustain dissipation when diffusivity or viscosity is small? These questions are fundamental to understanding turbulence and have important applications in engineering. […]
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Statistics Seminar: Randomization Posteriors and Generalized Bayesian Inference
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Edric Tam, Warren Alpert Fellow in AI and Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Description: A longstanding question in Bayesian analysis concerns the role of randomization. We introduce randomization posteriors, a class of generalized Bayesian updates obtained by averaging over an auxiliary randomization law. A particularly relevant instance assigns random weights […]
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Statistics Seminar: Robustness, Model Checking and Hierarchical Models
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Rafael Cabral, Member of Technical Staff, Axiom Math Description: Latent Gaussian models (LGMs) are among the most widely used classes of statistical models, with applications ranging from biostatistics to spatial modeling. Their central assumption, that the latent variables are Gaussian, is nevertheless rarely checked. Many datasets contain sudden jumps or local spikes that a […]
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Chemical Screening Center 2027 Symposium
Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CAJoin the UCSC Chemical Screening Center on May 7, 2027 for our biennial symposium in PSB240. The event is free to all who register by April 15, 2027 (registration link will be available closer to the time, at csc.ucsc.edu). We are featuring a distinguished speaker, Dr. Ethan Perlstein, CEO of Perlara PBC, the first biotech […]
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