Audience: Graduate Students
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A Conversation on Black Ecologies
Join the Sociology Department together with the Center for Critical Urban & Environmental Studies (CUES), The Black Geographies Lab, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in the Rachel Carson College Red Room, to welcome speakers Tianna Bruno and Justin Hosbey (UC Berkeley) for a conversation on Black Ecologies.
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Screening: Cracking the Code
Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.
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AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling
Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sonoma State University Description: Many mathematical models of traffic are macroscopic in nature, meaning that they model the relationship between average speed, […]
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AM Seminar: Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models.
Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton […]
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Weatherwax, K. (CM) – LoFi to X and Y: Background Media Use as Colloquial Assistive Technology for Neurodivergent People
Research in media psychology has often framed background media as a distraction that undermines performance. Such perspectives rely on narrow, output-oriented definitions of success and overlook the emotional, mental, social, […]
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AM Seminar: Structure-Preserving Discretizations and their Applications
Presenter: Andy Wan, Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced Description: Many models from science and engineering possess fundamental structures which are important to preserve in order for accurate and stable long-term […]
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Familiar Touch Screening
This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to […]
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Archives 101 for Graduate Students
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience with our collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC […]
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Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s […]
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Statistics Seminar: Sampling Depth Trade-Off in Function Estimation Under a Two-Level Design
Presenter: Akira Horiguchi, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis Description: Many modern statistical applications involve a two-level sampling scheme that first samples subjects from a population and then samples […]