BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Events - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T104000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T114500 DTSTAMP:20260929T201252Z CREATED:20260929T200747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T201252Z UID:10017617-1791196800-1791200700@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:ECE Seminar: "Why Do Chips Get Hot? Electro-Thermal Co-Design for Next-Generation Transistors" DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Young Suh Song\, Knight-Hennessy PhD candidate @ Stanford University \nDescription: “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 led to improved electrical performance of semiconductors\, the increase in the number of transistors and interfaces in semiconductors has concomitantly worsened their thermal properties. In this talk\, I will first explain why chips get hot and introduce the materials and transistor structures used in the latest logic and memory semiconductors. Based on this\, I will discuss a range of structural and materials engineering approaches that have been explored to improve thermal properties in state-of-the-art semiconductors\, including metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) and 4F 2 3D dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) technology. Finally\, I will wrap up the talk by presenting my vision of how future research could keep chips cool.” \nBio: Young Suh Song is a PhD candidate in the department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University\, South Korea. His research focuses on electro-thermal co-design for advanced semiconductor devices and systems by utilizing improved structures and emerging materials. With this focus\, he has authored and co-authored over 50 research papers in journals and conferences including Nature Nanotechnology\, ACS Nano\, and IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE IEDM). He previously worked as a research scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center\, focusing on electro-thermal co-optimization in advanced CMOS nodes. His interdisciplinary work has been recognized with several honors\, including the outstanding reviewer award for Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP Publishing\, 2025) and best paper awards from IEEE ICCSS (2022) and IEIE (2020). More information can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/yssong24 \n  \nHosted by: Professor Zhicong Yu\, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department \nWhen: Monday\, October 5th from 10:40 to 11:45 AM PST \nLocation: Classroom E2-194 URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ece-seminar-why-do-chips-get-hot-electro-thermal-co-design-for-next-generation-transistors/ LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/unnamed.png GEO:37.0009723;-122.0632371 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Engineering 2 1156 High Street:geo:-122.0632371,37.0009723 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T133500 DTSTAMP:20261003T055419Z CREATED:20260928T165838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T055419Z UID:10017604-1791201600-1791207300@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:CM Seminar: Speaker - Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang "Building Intelligence Around Limited Human Attention: Our Research Trajectory Toward Attention-Aware Agentic System" DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang\, Professor\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) \nDescription: 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 human attention\, highlighting how attention has served as a primary focus across our work over the past decade. I will organize this body of work around five main directions: 1) protecting attention from unnecessary interruptions\, 2) utilizing attention during opportune moments\, 3) guiding attention toward important information\, 4) saving attention by delegating routine work to intelligent agents\, and 5) tracking attention through smartphone behavior. I will highlight representative projects that illustrate how we have approached each of these directions. Building on this trajectory\, I will discuss how these lines of work are shaping our current and future exploration of agentic systems centered on human attention. \nBio: Yung-Ju (Stanley) Chang is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) and a Joint Research Fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences\, Academia Sinica\, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He leads the Agentic Intelligence for Mobile Engagement and Experience (AIMEX) Lab. His research spans mobile attention and multitasking\, mobile media consumption\, human–agent interaction\, mobile crowdsourcing\, social media influencers\, and digital wellbeing. He collaborates across disciplines and has worked closely with scholars in communication to understand how people engage with different forms of media content. \nHosted by: Associate Professor of Computational Media\, Christina Chung \nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94103955103?pwd=od4ueavRt06ECpwAwqvgofwn5Suyal.1 \nConfirmed Seminar Location: SVC\, Room 3212 URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/cm-seminar-speaker-yung-ju-stanley-chang-building-intelligence-around-limited-human-attention-our-research-trajectory-toward-attention-aware-agentic-system/ LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/CM-Seminar-—-Editable-Poster-1-scaled.png GEO:37.3796975;-121.9765484 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue Santa Clara CA 95054 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3175 Bowers Avenue:geo:-121.9765484,37.3796975 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T170000 DTSTAMP:20260921T164141Z CREATED:20260921T164141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T164141Z UID:10017107-1792425600-1792429200@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Advancing Science on the Sea and Stars with Modern Statistical Techniques DESCRIPTION:Presenter: J. Xavier Prochaska\, Professor\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: I will present two current and challenging research problems from the domains of astrophysics and oceanography which are leveraging standard Bayesian methods. After describing the datasets\, scientific goals\, and currently methodology\, I will welcome a discussion on ways to improve\, advance\, and/or replace the current approaches. Ideally within the realm of tradiational/modern statistics\, but I will welcome soluation with machine learning/AI approaches. I will then conclude by describing forthcoming\, large datasets that could leverage expertise from members of the Department of Statistics. For those who wish a preview of the data and current techniques\, I will circulate a README a day or two in advance of the seminar. \nAbout the speaker: PhD Physics — UC San Diego; Professor Astronomy & Astrophysics and Ocean Sciences — UC Santa Cruz \n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Yunyi Shen. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/statistics-seminar-advancing-science-on-the-sea-and-stars-with-modern-statistical-techniques/ LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/x-prochaska-300-1.jpg GEO:37.000369;-122.0632371 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street:geo:-122.0632371,37.000369 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T170000 DTSTAMP:20260922T181210Z CREATED:20260922T181210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T181210Z UID:10017559-1792425600-1792429200@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Analysis of Flagellar Gait Changes Across Fluid Viscosities DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Kelli Gutierrez\, CSU Monterey Bay \nDescription: Many microswimmers propel themselves using flagella\, which are thin\, threadlike filaments that beat in a periodic wavelike motion. The flagellar beat emerges from the coupled interactions between the surrounding fluid and the active and passive responses of the flagellum. Previous studies have observed the qualitative shape of the flagellar waveform and the swimming speed to change with fluid viscosity. We quantify changes in the flagellar waveforms of \textit{Chlamydomonas reinhardtii} in response to changes in fluid viscosity using (i) shape mode analysis and (ii) a full swimmer simulation to analyze how shape changes affect the swimming speed. By decomposing the gait into the time‑independent mean shape and the time‑varying stroke\, we find that the time-independent mean shape changes substantially in response to viscosity\, while the changes in the time-varying stroke are more subtle. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Gutierrez received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis. She joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Department at Cal State Monterey Bay in 2026. Her research interests include mathematical biology\, fluid dynamics\, and applied mathematics. \nThis seminar is hosted by Applied Mathematics. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/am-seminar-analysis-of-flagellar-gait-changes-across-fluid-viscosities/ LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/KGutierrez_Headshot-scaled.jpg GEO:37.000369;-122.0632371 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street:geo:-122.0632371,37.000369 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261019T190000 DTSTAMP:20260917T183243Z CREATED:20260917T183243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T183243Z UID:10017081-1792431000-1792436400@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:North Stars of Emancipation: Navigating Movements and Institutions to Change Food Systems DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Roman-Alcalá will discuss his new book\, North Stars of Emancipation: California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements in Times of Racial Reckoning\, based on his 20 years of engaging such movements as both participant and (more recently) researcher. The book addresses how food movements’ racial politics and change-making strategies have shifted over recent decades\, in response to the interventions of activists and allies\, and in relation to the ever-vexing challenge of working across various kinds of difference. \nAntonio will present insights from North Stars\, illuminating the origins of right wing populist political strategies in California’s agrarian history\, dynamics of contemporary movement organizing among ecological farmers\, farmworkers\, Indigenous people\, food justice activists\, nonprofit staff\, researchers\, and others\, and suggestions for how to both diversify and strengthen the movement. \nAddressing social scientific and social movement debates about if and how social movements should seek radical change to society\, and how movements might navigate problematic political and economic systems not set up to serve them\, the talk will introduce the book’s call for a “North Star” approach to political change. Such an approach\, Antonio argues\, can leverage food markets and state policy even while seeking a food system (and world) beyond capitalism and the colonial nation-state. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/north-stars-of-emancipation-navigating-movements-and-institutions-to-change-food-systems/ LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Untitled-design-33.png GEO:36.9817736;-122.0569624 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road Santa Cruz CA 95064 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=94 Ranch View Road:geo:-122.0569624,36.9817736 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260921T170456Z CREATED:20260921T170456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T170456Z UID:10017108-1793635200-1793638800@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Sliced Optimal Transport: From Acceleration to Bayesian Modeling DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Enter the speaker’s name\, title\, and institution at the top of the event \nDescription: 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 and inference. In the first part of the talk\, I will briefly introduce optimal transport and sliced optimal transport (SOT). I will then present sliced-regularized OT\, which uses a cheap sliced plan as an informative prior for approximating the full plan\, yielding an efficient approximate OT solver. In the second part\, I will show how SOT enables new applications in statistical inference. In particular\, I will introduce distributional determinantal point processes\, which use SOT geometry to place repulsive priors on distributions\, giving a Bayesian model for clustering distributional data. Applications include image processing and the clustering of single-cell and epilepsy data. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Khai Nguyen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. His research develops computational optimal transport\, particularly sliced methods that make large-scale transport tractable. He brings these tools to problems in machine learning and geometric data processing\, as well as to Bayesian approximate inference and nonparametric models for distributional data. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Yunyi Shen. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/am-seminar-sliced-optimal-transport-from-acceleration-to-bayesian-modeling/ LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BE-logomark_localist.png GEO:37.000369;-122.0632371 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street:geo:-122.0632371,37.000369 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261102T170000 DTSTAMP:20261001T175836Z CREATED:20261001T175836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T175836Z UID:10017706-1793635200-1793638800@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Data Analysis Workflow from Low-Code Tools to Generative and Agentic AI DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Reza Fazel-Rezai\, Senior Science and Education Application Engineer\, MathWorks \nDescription: 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 minimal coding. The session will demonstrate how these tools can automatically generate reproducible MATLAB code\, how Generative AI can assist with code creation\, explanation\, and troubleshooting\, and how Agentic AI workflows can help plan\, execute code\, validate results\, diagnose issues\, and iteratively refine outcomes. Highlights: – Build a data analysis workflow using low-code and interactive tools. – Use Generative AI to support code generation\, explanation\, and troubleshooting. – Explore how Agentic AI can plan analysis steps\, run code\, test results\, diagnose errors\, and iterate toward reliable outcomes. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Reza Fazel-Rezai\, with a Ph.D. and MS in Biomedical Engineering and a BS in Electrical Engineering\, brings over two decades of experience in both industry and academia. As a senior research scientist\, research team manager\, and the founding Director and tenured full Professor of Biomedical Engineering\, he has extensive expertise and background in the field. Dr. Fazel-Rezai has authored more than 200 scientific publications\, edited and published seven books\, and pursued diverse research interests in biomedical signal and image processing\, particularly through machine learning and deep learning methods. Passionate about leveraging and sharing his skills to help others achieve their goals\, he currently serves as an ABET PEV for Biomedical Engineering\, works part-time as an instructor at UC San Diego\, and is a full-time Senior Science and Education Application Engineer at MathWorks. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Pascale Garaud. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/am-seminar-data-analysis-workflow-from-low-code-tools-to-generative-and-agentic-ai/ LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064 CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Unknown.jpeg GEO:37.000369;-122.0632371 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street:geo:-122.0632371,37.000369 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261116T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261116T170000 DTSTAMP:20260922T180840Z CREATED:20260917T185033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T180840Z UID:10017082-1794843000-1794848400@live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io SUMMARY:Fall Slow Seminar: The Range of the River by Iftekhar Iqbal DESCRIPTION:UCSC’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\, Humanities 1. \nSpanning nearly four million square kilometers across eastern South Asia\, mainland Southeast Asia\, and southern China\, the Tibetan river system connects some of Asia’s major waterways\, including the Brahmaputra\, Mekong\, and Yangtze. In The Range of the River\, Iqbal traces the intertwined histories of these rivers and the human and other-than-human forces that have shaped them. The book considers rivers not only as sites of imperial power\, territorial contestation\, and economic activity\, but also as dynamic forces and shared commons that have facilitated movement\, exchange\, commerce\, and cultural encounters across political and geographic boundaries. \nProfessor Anna Tsing (UCSC Anthropology) will facilitate our Slow Seminar to focus on three river systems explored in Iqbal’s book: the Brahmaputra\, Mekong\, and Yangtze. Three scholars including Sanjay Barbora (UCSC Sociology)\, David Biggs (UCR History)\, and Ben Read (UCSC Politics) will offer brief reflections on one river each\, providing distinct disciplinary and regional perspectives before the discussion opens to a broader collective conversation. Our seminar conversation will focus on Chapters 1\, 4\, 6\, and 7 of the book. \nPlease register for the Slow Seminar by filling out this Google Form. Registered guests will receive a PDF copy of selected chapters of The Range of the River via email. \nThis is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person at UCSC or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out to registered participants at least 1 hour before the event. \nRegistration will close at midnight on November 15\, 2026. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here. URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/fall-slow-seminar-the-range-of-the-river-by-iftkhar-iqbal/ LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Southeast Asian Social Interactions":MAILTO:seacoast@ucsc.edu GEO:36.9979834;-122.0555164 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road Santa Cruz CA 95064 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=257 Cowell-Stevenson Road:geo:-122.0555164,36.9979834 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR