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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: "Where The Semiconductor Industry Is Headed Over The Next 5\, 10\, 20 Years?"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Victor Zhirnov\, Product Ideation Head @ Applied Materials \nDescription: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a primary engine of socioeconomic growth in the modern world. Electronic information processing and transmission are being further accelerated by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The adoption of AI continues to expand at an unprecedented pace\, driven by the exponential growth of data that must be generated\, moved\, stored\, computed\, communicated\, secured\, and ultimately transformed into actionable information for end users. \nToday\, ICT is undergoing several major “seismic shifts\,” as outlined in the Decadal Plan for Semiconductors. One of the most significant challenges is the growing imbalance between the energy demands of information and communication technologies and the world’s capacity for energy production. This trend introduces substantial risks to future technological progress\, particularly for AI systems\, whose computational and data-processing requirements continue to increase dramatically. Addressing these challenges will require the discovery of fundamentally new paradigms capable of delivering orders-of-magnitude improvements in energy efficiency. \nA second seismic shift is the widening gap between communication capacity and data generation. Modern society is characterized by near-ubiquitous connectivity\, enabling continuous access to information\, cloud storage\, and cloud computing resources. The ability to access data from virtually anywhere and share it globally has transformed business operations\, scientific research\, and everyday life. However\, the cloud-centric model relies heavily on the assumption of constant and reliable connectivity\, an assumption that cannot always be guaranteed. At the same time\, global data generation is growing faster than communication infrastructure can support\, creating an increasing mismatch between information storage requirements and communication capabilities. Overcoming this challenge will require radical advances in communication technologies. \nInventing the next generation of computation and communication paradigms is undoubtedly a formidable challenge. Nevertheless\, it is achievable if the right scientific questions are identified and the necessary resources are mobilized. Future ICT systems will require breakthrough innovations based on largely unexplored physical principles\, spanning materials\, devices\, circuits\, architectures\, and system-level functions. Such advances have the potential to redefine the foundations of information processing and communication\, enabling sustainable growth of AI and the broader digital economy.” \nBio: Victor Zhirnov is the Product Ideation Head at Applied Materials\, where he leads the initiation of breakthrough innovation projects with the potential to enable major technology inflections across the semiconductor industry. His work focuses on identifying and advancing disruptive concepts that can shape the future of computing\, communications\, and advanced manufacturing. \nPrior to joining Applied Materials\, Dr. Zhirnov served as Chief Scientist at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). In that role\, he was responsible for envisioning and developing long-term research directions for the semiconductor ecosystem\, guiding collaborations between industry and academia in semiconductor technologies. \nWith more than 30 years of semiconductor experience\, Dr. Zhirnov has made significant contributions across a broad range of disciplines\, including materials science\, process technology\, device physics\, and the exploration of the fundamental limits of semiconductor technologies. \nDr. Zhirnov has played a leading role in several major international technology roadmapping efforts. He served as Chair of the Emerging Research Devices Working Group for the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) and has also led the development of both the 2030 Decadal Plan for Semiconductors and the Microelectronics and Advanced Packaging Technologies (MAPT) Roadmap. \nHe earned an M.S. in Applied Physics from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Yekaterinburg\, Russia\, in 1989\, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Electronics and Microelectronics from the Institute of Physics and Technology in Moscow in 1992. \nDr. Zhirnov has authored or co-authored approximately 200 technical papers and numerous contributions to books\, reflecting his longstanding influence on semiconductor research\, technology strategy\, and innovation. \nHosted by: Professor Marco Rolandi & Professor Soumya Bose\, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department \nWhen: 10:40 to 11:45 AM PST \nLocation: Classroom E2-194 \nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98247592428?pwd=iUrZFuvQ8ANPqirWLxC4DokeyvIUIz.1
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ece-290-seminar-where-the-semiconductor-industry-is-headed-over-the-next-5-10-20-years/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Vecchia Approximated Bayesian Heteroskedastic Gaussian Processes
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Parul Patil\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: Many computer simulations are stochastic and exhibit input dependent noise. In such situations\, heteroskedastic Gaussian processes (hetGPs) make ideal surrogates as they estimate a latent\, non-constant variance. However\, existing hetGP implementations are unable to deal with large simulation campaigns and use point-estimates for all unknown quantities\, including latent variances. This limits applicability to small experiments and undercuts uncertainty. We propose a Bayesian hetGP using elliptical slice sampling (ESS) for posterior variance integration\, and the Vecchia approximation to circumvent computational bottlenecks. We show good performance for our upgraded hetGP capability\, compared to alternatives\, on a benchmark example and a motivating corpus of more than 9-million lake temperature simulations. An open source implementation is provided as bhetGP on CRAN. \nAbout the speaker: Parul Patil is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr Paul Parker and Dr Sangwon Hyun at University of California\, Santa Cruz. She completed her PhD in May 2026 from Virginia Tech. She had previously completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics in India. She works with large-scale data\, using statistical tools to model complex processes\, quantify uncertainty\, and uncover patterns. Her work lies at the intersection of statistics and machine learning with ecological applications\, focusing on scalable methods for analyzing high-dimensional and spatially structured data. \nThis seminar is hosted by Professor Yunyi Shen.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/statistics-seminar-vecchia-approximated-bayesian-heteroskedastic-gaussian-processes/
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Julian Lucas & Speaker Theo Kell
DESCRIPTION:Title of Talk 1: Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity \nPresenter 1: Julian Lucas\, Graduate Student in Miga Lab\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nDescription: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation\, yet their repetitive DNA has long been a blind spot in human genomics. Until recently\, they were largely missing from reference genomes\, and they are still omitted from many genomic analyses due to their rapid sequence divergence. Reference-quality assemblies from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) now make it possible to compare centromeres across hundreds of human haplotypes. I will describe how we built these assemblies and developed methods to align their repetitive satellite arrays. Together\, these form a centromere pangenome that represents variation and supports analysis such as read mapping\, making centromeres accessible to genomics. Our analysis reveals large structural differences in and around centromeres\, as well as unexpected patterns in single-base changes that offer clues to how centromeric DNA evolves. \nBio: Julian is a graduate student in Karen Miga’s laboratory at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research uses pangenomes to characterize variation in human centromeres\, with the goal of bringing these historically difficult-to-analyze regions into mainstream human genetics. Recently\, he helped lead the assembly effort for Release 2 of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC)\, which produced reference-quality genome assemblies that better capture human genetic diversity. Before graduate school\, Julian worked at biotechnology startups\, most recently in non-invasive cancer detection. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department \nTitle of Talk 2: Genomics Institute Computing Resources \nPresenter 2: Theo Kell\, Senior Systems Architect\, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute \nDescription: The backbone of the bioinformatics research at the Genomics Institute is its computing infrastructure. Members of the Genomics Institute have access to a wide array of resources\, including petabytes of storage capacity\, and a supercomputer cluster with over 7\,000 cores. There are also systems for hosting public websites\, sharing datasets with the world\, and collaborating on coding projects. The Genomics Institute IT team works with all stakeholders to make sure that the computing resources are accessible\, up-to-date\, and optimized for cutting-edge\, massively parallel bioinformatics research. \nThis presentation will give an overview of the computing assets that are available\, explain how they are used\, and elaborate on best practices. It is intended to be approachable for students who do not yet have experience with programming or using the command line\, while also providing a jumping-off point for students who are ready to dive in and begin running code. \nBio: Theo Kell is a Senior Systems Architect at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. After graduating from the Baskin School of Engineering’s Technology and Information Management program\, he worked as an IT System Administrator at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Cabrillo College before returning to UCSC to join the Genomics Institute IT team. He has a broad background in Linux/Unix systems\, virtualization\, cybersecurity\, networking\, and customer support.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/bme-280b-seminar-speaker-julian-lucas-speaker-theo-kell-genomics-institute-computing-resources/
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