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SUMMARY:Snow Wonder
DESCRIPTION:The Faculty & Staff Health and Well-being Program presents Snow Wonder\, a UC systemwide wellness challenge!  \nRegistration opens November 3 – November 24\nChallenge runs Monday\, November 17 – Sunday\, December 14 \nJoin this 2025 UC Snow Wonder Challenge! Picture yourself having a healthier\, happier holiday season. Form teams with your colleagues and motivate each other and celebrate your healthy habit accomplishments to end the year on a healthy high note and head into 2026 feeling your best! \nVisit the UCSC Snow Wonder webpage to learn more. Register to create a new account and choose UC Santa Cruz as your location. Please note that space for this challenge is limited\, so sign up early.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/snow-wonder/
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:United Nations Reboot the Earth Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:The United Nations (UN) and the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, are collaborating to bring the “Reboot the Earth” hackathon to the West Coast for the first time. \nThis is a social event bringing together aspiring developers to create open source software solutions that address the climate crisis\, including wildfire response. It’s a chance to collaborate with peers\, use open data\, and apply your coding skills to real-world climate challenges! \n\n\n\nDate: November 7-8\, 2025\nLocation: UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Center.\nRegister here for the event. \n\nOrganized by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT)\, the 2025  Reboot the Earth hackathons are focused on agriculture and artificial intelligence (AI). The California event will focus on the locally relevant challenges of wildfire detection\, response\, and impact. Participants can leverage open source\, AI\, and open data sets\, along with local expertise on the environment and emergency preparedness and response. The goal is to build solutions that can become a digital public good\, serving local community needs. \nUC Santa Cruz students interested in attending the event can take advantage of the Silicon Valley Connector shuttle\, which will be running on Saturday\, November 8\, in addition to the regular Friday schedule. \nTo learn more about the Reboot the Earth initiative\, visit: https://unite.un.org/en/reboot-earth.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/un-reboot-the-earth-hackathon/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences,Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Hot Cocoa & Advising @ Merrill College
DESCRIPTION:Come join Merrill Peer Advisors for Hot Cocoa and advising!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/hot-cocoa-advising-merrill-college/
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION: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 (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land\, the light that shapes it\, and the freedom – contested but essential – to move across it. \nThe exhibition draws on voices across time and perspective that frame the American landscape as more than a stage for beauty and awe. For Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Nation\, to roam the land freely was life itself. For N. Scott Momaday\, land must be “believed to be seen.” For Eliot Porter\, light and reflection imparted magic to Glen Canyon’s waters. For Wallace Stegner\, saving natural places meant saving fragments of our collective sanity. For Brook M. Thompson\, the Klamath River is recognized with personhood. Alongside these perspectives\, Paul’s images press us to see public land not as scenery to extract or aestheticize\, but as sustenance and history. Land is alive and contested. To see closely is not to linger on a romanticized vision of the American landscape\, but to reckon with responsibility: how we safeguard access\, how we imagine “wildness\,” and how we hold space for futures beyond our own. For Paul\, this exhibition is a call for students to encounter land and light firsthand and let those encounters be their teachers. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-11-07/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Family Weekend 2025
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce Nov. 7-9 as the dates for UCSC’s second annual Family Weekend\, bringing families together to experience UC Santa Cruz’s vibrant campus life and community spirit. The weekend will offer engaging activities\, informative sessions\, and opportunities to connect with faculty\, staff\, and fellow families.  \nFor more details\, visit the Family Weekend webpage. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/family-weekend-2025/
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SUMMARY:Wang\, S. (CSE) - Learned Hashing and Overlay Networks for AI-native Retrieval and Serving at Scale
DESCRIPTION:Modern AI systems demand low-latency high-quality retrieval and serving over billion-scale keys and vectors. This proposal studies learned hashing and overlay networks to co-locate semantically related items and steer queries with minimal coordination. We first present LEAD\, to our knowledge the first use of order-preserving learned hash functions in distributed key-value overlays\, enabling efficient range queries and cutting hops/messages by 80–90% in prototypes while retaining balance and churn resilience. Second\, Vortex applies learned hashing to approximate nearest-neighbor retrieval: a self-organizing overlay binding learned keys to distributed HNSW indexes to achieve high recall at low fan-out. Third\, PlanetServe introduces onion-style path setup with multi-path dispersal and cache-aware forwarding for open LLM serving\, reducing TTFT and latency while preserving privacy. Planned work generalizes learned hashing to embedding partitions\, token/KV caches\, programmable switches\, and storage tiers\, and provides formal convergence\, load-balancing\, and monotonic-progress guarantees under skew and churn. We are also working to design the first knowledge delivery network for LLM serving: an overlay that unifies data placement\, retrieval\, and policy-aware routing across clusters and providers with tunable cost\, privacy\, and quality. Evaluation on real workloads at scale will measure recall\, tail latency\, cost\, and robustness\, targeting a predictable\, elastic\, scalable AI-native retrieval and serving stack. \nEvent Host: Shengze Wang\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Chen Qian \n  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/5455463199?pwd=bHRVM01Vd20rcVpkc0FQY01kZG1UUT09&omn=98106984546 \nPasscode: 2121
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/wang-s-cse-learned-hashing-and-overlay-networks-for-ai-native-retrieval-and-serving-at-scale/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:"Bring Them Home" Screening
DESCRIPTION:The American Indian Resource Center will be screening "Bring Them Home" at the Namaste Lounge this November 7th.\n"Bring Them Home" is more than a film; it is a movement aimed at raising awareness around the Blackfeet's buffalo program\, a cornerstone in their fight against the lingering shadows of colonization\, oppression\, and trauma. Through this campaign\, we aspire to amplify the tribe's rewilding efforts\, support the sustainability of their buffalo program\, and convey the critical message of living in harmony with animals and the land.\nThe narrative of the Blackfeet and bison is intertwined with themes of survival\, resilience\, and rebirth. These majestic creatures are integral to every face of the Blackfeet culture\, playing a vital role in ceremonies and symbolizing the community's cultural\, spiritual\, and economic healing. The recent release of the Elk Island Herd into the wild marks a significant step in this journey\, despite the numerous challenges encountered along the way.\n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bring-them-home-screening/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Bring Them Home: Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special screening of Bring Them Home—a powerful documentary by Thunderheart Films about the Blackfeet Nation’s buffalo program and its role in restoring culture\, healing generational trauma\, and reconnecting people\, animals\, and the land. \nEnjoy free food and beverages\, a raffle\, and community conversation following the film. \nRSVP in advance. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bring-them-home-film-screening/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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