Past Events
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:00am
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 10:00am
- Tue, 01/17/2017 - 2:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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- Tue, 11/01/2016 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Hofmann will discuss her research showing that rising levels of carbon in Antarctic waters threaten the Antarctic food chain.
Reception and exhibition of paintings by artist Lily Simonson to follow. Simonson collaborated with Hofmann in the Antarctic to explore and sketch the obscure organisms and otherworldly scenes that are the subjects of her...
More- Tue, 04/12/2016 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education at UCSB, will present "Science Fiction and Creative Self-Destruction" as part of UCSB Library's Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series.
In 2015 Gutiérrez-Jones published the book...
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- Tue, 04/28/2015 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Giovanni Vigna, UCSB Department of Computer Science
April 28, 2015, 4pm
Malware is in continuous evolution. As new countermeasures are deployed, cybercriminals adapt and create malware samples that can evade these defenses, like invisible ninjas attacking at night.
This talk describes the evolution of malware, and describes research in fighting this ever-changing threat, focusing in particular on the detection of evasive...
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