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M.F.A. Exhibition for Environmental Art & Social Practice (EASP)—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]

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Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World

Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz

On April 6, 2026, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. Sotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided […]

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Book Talk with independent Indian journalist Neha Dixit! The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian

Rachel Carson College Red Room

On Monday April 6th, you are invited to meet with Neha Dixit, an independent Indian journalist and author based in New Delhi. From 2:30-4:00 PM in the Rachel Carson College Red Room, join the Sociology Department together with the Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Labor and Community, and Sikh and Punjabi Studies, who will hear about Neha’s new book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian (Footnote, 2025).

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AM Seminar: The Thinking Eye: AI That Sees, Reads, and Reasons in Medicine

Presenter: Yuyin Zhou, Assistant Professor, UCSC Description: Medical AI is undergoing a profound transformation, evolving from simple pattern recognition to systems capable of complex clinical reasoning. This talk will chart this evolution across three dimensions: data, models, and evaluation. I will first highlight the shift from limited, unimodal datasets to massive multimodal resources. In particular, […]

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Statistics Seminar: Some Recent Results on Transfer Learning

Presenter: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Description: In the first part of the talk, I will introduce TRansfer leArning via guideD horseshoE prioR (TRADER), a novel approach enabling multi-source transfer through pre-trained models in high-dimensional linear regression. TRADER shrinks target parameters towards a weighted average of source estimates, accommodating […]