If you are planning to submit applications in the coming months (with some deadlines in April, May, and June) we are here to help you write your application essays. This quarter is the start of the medical and health professional application cycle, so we are ready to assist you with the essays required for these kinds of applications.

The Buscadores Program is here to help you with all the writing components of your applications. Our support is continuous throughout the quarter. Specifically, we can assist you in developing critical application essays through our "Where-to-Start" Workshop Series, "Ask-me-Anything" Writing Labs, and 1:1 Consultations curated to fit your specific writing needs. In-person and online support are available.

HOW WE HELP:

We provide immediate access to an experienced team of University Writing Program Mentors who can help you develop and revise grad/med/professional school essay applications.Your mentors can guide you through any stage of the writing process in curated 1:1 Sessions or Ask-Me-Anything Writing Lab Communities.Simply exploring the potential of graduate school? Wondering how to ask for letters of recommendation at this crucial time? We can help you get started through our workshop series.Contact us if you have any questions. We are here for you. If you are interested in signing up for our workshops, writing labs, or 1:1 consultations, fill out this RSVP SIGN-UP FORM.

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Hear from these accomplished leaders as they share their career journeys, insights on leveraging a science degree in diverse industries, and practical advice for building a fulfilling career.

The program will feature a networking mixer, panel discussion with Q&A, and a sit-down dinner offering opportunities to learn more about life after UCR and have your education and career questions answered.

Space is limited, so be sure to register soon.

Dinner, dessert, and refreshments will be provided.

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If you are planning to submit applications in the coming months (with some deadlines in April, May, and June) we are here to help you write your application essays. This quarter is the start of the medical and health professional application cycle, so we are ready to assist you with the essays required for these kinds of applications.

The Buscadores Program is here to help you with all the writing components of your applications. Our support is continuous throughout the quarter. Specifically, we can assist you in developing critical application essays through our "Where-to-Start" Workshop Series, "Ask-me-Anything" Writing Labs, and 1:1 Consultations curated to fit your specific writing needs. In-person and online support are available.

HOW WE HELP:

We provide immediate access to an experienced team of University Writing Program Mentors who can help you develop and revise grad/med/professional school essay applications.Your mentors can guide you through any stage of the writing process in curated 1:1 Sessions or Ask-Me-Anything Writing Lab Communities.Simply exploring the potential of graduate school? Wondering how to ask for letters of recommendation at this crucial time? We can help you get started through our workshop series.Contact us if you have any questions. We are here for you. If you are interested in signing up for our workshops, writing labs, or 1:1 consultations, fill out this RSVP SIGN-UP FORM.

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If you are planning to submit applications in the coming months (with some deadlines in April, May, and June) we are here to help you write your application essays. This quarter is the start of the medical and health professional application cycle, so we are ready to assist you with the essays required for these kinds of applications.

The Buscadores Program is here to help you with all the writing components of your applications. Our support is continuous throughout the quarter. Specifically, we can assist you in developing critical application essays through our "Where-to-Start" Workshop Series, "Ask-me-Anything" Writing Labs, and 1:1 Consultations curated to fit your specific writing needs. In-person and online support are available.

HOW WE HELP:

We provide immediate access to an experienced team of University Writing Program Mentors who can help you develop and revise grad/med/professional school essay applications.Your mentors can guide you through any stage of the writing process in curated 1:1 Sessions or Ask-Me-Anything Writing Lab Communities.Simply exploring the potential of graduate school? Wondering how to ask for letters of recommendation at this crucial time? We can help you get started through our workshop series.Contact us if you have any questions. We are here for you. If you are interested in signing up for our workshops, writing labs, or 1:1 consultations, fill out this RSVP SIGN-UP FORM.

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Please refer to the official schedule of speakers here: https://neuro.ucr.edu/seminars

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Deep learning models, despite their power, lag behind the biological brain in interpretability, energy efficiency, and physical plausibility. This presentation explores the mathematical design principles of biological neural circuits -- building upon the classic concept that neural activity is fundamentally driven by cost minimization and energy landscapes. We demonstrate a direct mathematical equivalence between the firing dynamics of recurrent neural networks and "proximal gradient descent," a novel dynamical system used to solve optimization problems. This framework provides a top-down explanation for how biological networks process information, illustrated through examples such as sparse signal reconstruction in the visual cortex and decision-making via the free energy principle. Finally, we extend these concepts to complex excitatory-inhibitory circuits, modeling neurons as players in a mathematical game. We conclude by briefly discussing how these biological insights can inspire next-generation analog and neuromorphic computing.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

Save Your Spot

Space is limited! Register now to reserve your spot and gain invaluable insights on launching your start-up.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

Save Your Spot

Space is limited! Register now to reserve your spot and gain invaluable insights on launching your start-up.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

Save Your Spot

Space is limited! Register now to reserve your spot and gain invaluable insights on launching your start-up.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

Save Your Spot

Space is limited! Register now to reserve your spot and gain invaluable insights on launching your start-up.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

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State estimation is one of the core components of all autonomous systems. For size, weight,
and power (SWaP) constrained robots, it is often performed with a special assortment of
sensors tailored to the size and power capacities of the agent. If there is enough perceptual
information in the environment, the robot can extract accurate state estimates. However,
when such information is scarce, there is a fundamental barrier. An agent must either act
in a way cognizant of such circumstances, or we must resort to alternate solutions
altogether. In this talk, I will first consider the problem of minimizing the traversal time of
a given geometric path by a vision-driven micro aerial vehicle that has to maintain accurate
state estimates at all times. In the second part, I will shift the focus towards enabling
autonomous agents to navigate perceptually-degraded environments. In particular, I will
look at how members of robot teams can leverage each other to localize accurately. We
shall delve into the underlying optimization problems, showing that suitably positioning
perceptually-advantaged members of the team can reduce the localization uncertainty of
perceptually-disadvantaged agents by up to ninety percent, as well as showing what cannot
be achieved regardless of which optimization algorithm we use.

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Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

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Are you a creative and disruptive innovator with groundbreaking ideas but unsure how to turn them into a successful business? Join our monthly Innovation Office Hours to gain the tools and knowledge to navigate the entrepreneurial journey, regardless of where you are in your journey. Get all your questions answered by an industry expert!

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students.

*Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, the upcoming February 12th 2026 Office Hour will be taking place on the second Thursday instead of the first Wednesday of this month.

REGISTER FOR THE NEXT VIRTUAL OFFICE HOUR: FEBRUARY 12TH 2026 @ 1PM PDT

Office Hour Highlights

Exclusive Expertise: Get expert insights on starting a spin-out company, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A tailored to your needs.

Venture Capital Essentials: Understand the stages of equity investment, the value VCs bring, and how to engage and negotiate with them.

Finding the Right Investor: Discover strategies to identify the right investors based on your business stage, sector, and location.

The Pitch and Beyond: Learn how to deliver a compelling pitch, manage term sheets, and grow your company post-investment.

Who Should Attend

Open to all community members of the Inland Southern California region and UCR staff, faculty and students who are interested in transforming their research or innovative ideas into start-ups and learning the fundamentals of engaging with the industry, academia, or venture capital community.

Save Your Spot

Space is limited! Register now to reserve your spot and gain invaluable insights on launching your start-up.

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