Lectures & Presentations

May 2026

• Wed 13

  • 1:20 pm – 2:25 pm

    BME80G Seminar – Susanne Haga, “Ethics of AI in Genomic Medicine”

  • 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Virtual Event

    Zheng, K. (CSE) – Towards Generalist Embodied World Models: From Neuro-Symbolic Interaction to Self-Evolving 3D World Generation

  • 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm

    Building Belonging Program Student Showcase 2026

  • 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    What is Mythos? Conversations on AI

• Thu 14

  • 9:00 am – 11:00 am

    Hybrid Event

    Shadmon, R. (CS) – Proximal Byzantine Agreement

  • 11:40 am – 1:15 pm

    BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz – “How Embryos Build Themselves: Rules of Self-Organization”

  • 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    Learn more about high school health pathways

  • 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science

  • 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

    2026 Robert L. Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture in Biology: Global Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Climate Change, Mega Cities, and Anti-science

• Fri 15

  • 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

    Flow and Friction Symposium: Media Practices Across Global Asias

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    UCSC Graduate Research Symposium

    FREE
  • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Featured 2026 Graduate Research Symposium

    FREE

• Sun 17

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

    OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

    Free

• Mon 18

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am

    ECE Seminar: From Plumes to Produce: Leveraging Atmospheric Modeling and Smart Sensing for Food Safety

  • 10:40 am – 11:45 am

    ECE 290 Seminar: AI for Enhancing Power Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events

  • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    The Sensory Arcade: Food as Language

  • 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm

    Seminar Series | Is the Farm a Digital Factory?: Labor, Leafy Greens, and the Limits of Automation with Summer Sullivan

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Statistics Seminar: Unifying Regression-Based and Design-Based Causal Inference in Time-Series Experiments and Crossover Experiments

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    AM Seminar: Dissecting Complex Disease Mechanisms with Causal Inference and Deep Learning

• Tue 19

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am

    ECE Seminar: Multiscale Sensing for Specialty Crop Systems: From Field Monitoring to Food Safety Application