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SUMMARY:Chen\, Z. (CSE) - GPU Subgroup Semantics for Portable High-Performance Kernels
DESCRIPTION:Modern high-performance GPU kernels increasingly rely on subgroup-level execution\, including subgroup-level communication\, subgroup operations\, and matrix operations. These features are essential for workloads such as matrix multiplication and FlashAttention\, but their language-level guarantees remain difficult to reason about. Existing programming models often leave unclear which threads participate in subgroup operations\, when subgroup threads are required to execute together\, and what synchronization is implied by subgroup-level operations. This ambiguity becomes especially important in portable GPU programming\, where the same kernel may run across devices with different subgroup sizes\, compiler stacks\, browser backends\, and hardware execution behavior. \nMy research studies how precise subgroup semantics can support portable and correct high-performance GPU kernels. SIMT-Step\, my main completed work\, develops a formal and flexible operational semantics for GPU subgroup execution. It introduces dynamic blocks to specify converged subgroup execution and subgroup-operation participation\, classifies instructions as independent\, synchronous\, or collective to express a spectrum of candidate subgroup semantics\, and validates these models through a TLA+ implementation and an empirical fuzzing study across real GPUs. My systems work studies how subgroup-dependent kernels behave in practice\, including WebGPU FlashAttention kernels for LLM inference\, tunable WebGPU kernels for performance portability\, and Vulkan-based execution for heterogeneous SoCs. Building on these foundations\, my proposed verification work develops data-race-free checking techniques for ML kernels that rely on subgroup operations and matrix operations. Together\, these projects aim to clarify the execution guarantees that optimized GPU kernels can rely on and to support portable GPU programming systems whose performance and correctness can be reasoned about across diverse hardware. \nEvent Host: Zheyuan Chen\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Tyler Sorensen \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92175288480?pwd=jGajtqerVbKuW1FPNr3awqOYoxATsp.1&jst=3 \nPasscode: 693354
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/chen-z-cse-gpu-subgroup-semantics-for-portable-high-performance-kernels/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Print Sale—a two-day event
DESCRIPTION:The 52nd anniversary of the UCSC Print Sale runs in conjunction with the Art Department’s Spring Open Studios. Hundreds of original prints will be for sale in a variety of media at this two-day event\, including: \n\nWoodcuts\nLithographs\nEtchings\nPhoto-based prints\nScreen prints\nAnd more!\n\nAll proceeds benefit art students: 80% of proceeds go to the individual artists\, and 20% goes to support the Print Studio (thereby back to printmaking students). This once-a-year event presents an extraordinary opportunity for students to display and sell their work to the public. The event also offers an opportunity to see the exceptional quality of the printmaking program and facilities at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Print Sale: Two-day event scheduled for Fri. June 5 & Sat. June 6 from 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.\n– Open Studios: One day only\, in conjunction with the Print Sale\, on Fri. June 5 noon–4:00 p.m.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit or ParkMobile\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/52nd-annual-print-sale-2/2026-06-05/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Spring 2026 Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:Art Department students exhibit their art work throughout studios and classrooms at the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center at UC Santa Cruz. The Open Studios event features student art work in a variety of media\, including:\n– Drawing\n– Painting\n– Print media\n– Sculpture\n– Photography\n– Environmental art\n– Electronic art/new media\n—\nADMISSION\nFREE and open to the public.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must get their permits in advance; attendants will only sell non-affiliate rates\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-2026-open-studios/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION:Visit the IAS\, UCSC’s premier art galleries\, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16\, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right\, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj\, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday\, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. \nLibia Posada: Everything is Going Right\nLibia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States features installations\, sculptures\, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments\, gauze bandages\, crutches\, used books\, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal\, social\, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world\, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons.  \nGina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements\nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas.  \nRonaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\nCollage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video\, painting\, and installation\, layers and folds conceal and reveal\, delving into the experience\, both bodily and emotive\, of living in times of violence.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-exhibitions-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/2026-06-05/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making\, Acts Of Resistance\, And Imagining Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board\, card\, role-playing\, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects\, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists\, faculty\, alumni\, and students\, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives. \nIn part\, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary\, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems\, lived experience\, and how power operates. This exhibition does not attempt to represent that full spectrum. Instead\, it brings together a particular set of works that foreground how games can make systems visible\, intervene in them\, and imagine alternatives. \nAll games embody values\, whether intentional or not.  \n– Mary Flanagan\, game designer and scholar \nAcross all of these works\, games are not only forms of entertainment\, though they may be that as well. They are encountered in multiple ways: as objects\, as systems\, as artworks\, and as experiences that unfold unpredictably through interaction. In each case\, rules and constraints shape what participants can do. In these different forms\, the works stage systems – such as housing and land ownership\, capitalism\, race and identity\, civil rights and protest\, fascism\, and colonialism – in ways that are simplified and easy to see\, opening space to recognize similar structures beyond the game. In this sense\, the works suggest that rules are not neutral – they organize experience\, distribute power\, and produce meaning. \nGames are the art of agency. \n– C. Thi Nguyen\, philosopher \nThe exhibition is intentionally dense. This abundance reflects the breadth of ways games operate across contexts\, from activism and education to art and everyday life. While it celebrates creativity and difference\, it also asks how these works engage critically with the structures that shape our lives.  \nSome works use rules to model systems\, helping players understand how those systems operate. Others use play to rehearse action\, asking players to practice navigating or challenging those systems. Still others turn toward speculation\, inviting players to imagine alternative futures\, worlds\, and the systems that might shape them.  \nThe imagination is an instrument of change. \n– Ursula K. Le Guin\, author \nThe focus on analog games reflects how they foreground materiality and shared physical presence. Played face-to-face\, handled\, read aloud\, and experienced together\, these works show how rules operate not in abstraction\, but through lived\, embodied experience. \nUltimately\, the exhibition asks us to consider not only how games represent the world\, but how they shape our engagement with it – and how through play\, the social and political systems they model might be understood\, challenged\, and reimagined. \nGames are not apolitical. \n– Kishonna L. Gray\, media scholar \n  \nGallery Reception\nMay 15 from 1 to 4pm at the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery \n  \nArt Friday\nHands-on art activities drawing from the current exhibition.\nALL ARE WELCOME regardless of skill level. Art supplies and free snacks are provided!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/rules-are-not-neutral-play-as-sense-making-acts-of-resistance-and-imagining-otherwise/2026-06-05/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:BME80G Seminar – Sheril Kirshenbaum\, "Science in Policymaking"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: Following this lecture\, the Genomics Institute’s Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Committee will host a reception on the Baskin Engineering Lanai with Dr. Kirshenbaum where we can continue the discussion on how to effectively engage lawmakers and the public to value and support genomic science. \nPresenter: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum \nAbstract: Science shapes our world\, but meaningful policy engagement and understanding of research and innovation are critical if new advances are to reach their full potential. Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum will share her research on science in policymaking and reflect on her experiences serving as a science advisor in Congress. The talk will explore effective strategies for engaging policymakers and staff\, countering misinformation\, promoting evidence-based decision-making\, and strengthening the role of science in the policy process. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning scientist and author in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University\, and an assistant professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Her research explores how senior policymakers in the U.S. government make decisions about science and she has worked in the U.S. Senate with Senator Gary Peters (MI) and Bill Nelson (FL). She also hosts and writes the PBS series Serving Up Science with WKAR about the global food system and its impact on the environment and our health. Kirshenbaum is the author of The Science of Kissing and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (with Chris Mooney)\, and co-founded the NGO Science Debate. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme80g-seminar-sheril-kirshenbaum-science-in-policymaking/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:GCH190 Taskforce Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the past year’s offerings of the Global and Community Health Task Force! There will be student ambassadors presenting on each topic\, along with faculty giving a sneak peek on their courses for next academic year. This will be a great way to both honor the research from this year and orient incoming seniors to what the Task Force is all about. \nThe showcase will be held at Stevenson Event Center on Friday\, June 5th from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. There will be hot and cold appetizers\, along with refreshments. It’s going to be a great time!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/gch190-taskforce-showcase/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center\, Stevenson Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Almost Alumni Celebration for '26!
DESCRIPTION:2026 graduates\, come celebrate with us! Join us for a memorable evening at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Aloha Terrace complete with arcade passes\, live music\, giveaways from your college\, food\, champagne\, and more! \nThis annual tradition is hosted by the Office of Alumni Engagement to celebrate your accomplishments and welcome you to the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association. See you there! \nRegister for the Almost Alumni Celebration.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/almost-alumni-celebration-for-26/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
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SUMMARY:Science in the Neighborhood: The earthquake problem
DESCRIPTION:Science In the Neighborhood\nA public lecture series hosted quarterly by the UC Santa Cruz Science Division \nThe earthquake problem\nPresentation by Emily Brodsky\, Professor\, UC Santa Cruz\nQ&A with Stefano Profumo\, Associate Dean of Science\, UC Santa Cruz \nRegister here. \nEarthquake prediction has simultaneously remained both the central\, unsolved problem in seismology and the issue that communities care about most—especially here in Northern California. Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Emily Brodsky will discuss what we do and do not know about when earthquakes will happen. She will explain what we understand about the basic mechanics of faults and how drilling into faults has transformed our understanding of how earthquakes happen. Her talk will also explore how the machine learning revolution is powering a transformation in forecasting aftershocks\, as well as look ahead toward the kind of instrumentation and approaches that offer the most promise for the next big advances. \nThe event is in-person only. Register here. \nFriday\, June 5\, 2026 | 6:00–7:30 p.m.\nCoastal Biology Building. Rm. 110\nUC Santa Cruz Coastal Campus\n130 McAllister Way\nSanta Cruz\, CA 95060 \nThe screenshot below shows where to find the entrance of the Coastal Biology Building.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/science-in-the-neighborhood-the-earthquake-problem/
LOCATION:Coastal Biology Building\, 130 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Sluggers of the Lost Goal: Mud\, Slime\, and World Cup Madness!
DESCRIPTION:Watch robots compete in the Mechatronics Public Demo! Cheer on their sleep-deprived creators as they run their ‘bots through the field.Thrill to contest between autonomous robots navigating the field and score points by shooting ping-pong balls at each other and scoring the Golden Goal! Come see this exciting Sluggers of the Lost Goal competition! \nThe Mechatronics class is having their public demonstration of their final design project\, Sluggers of the Lost Goal: Mud\, Slime\, and World Cup Madness! \, Friday June 5th\, 2026 at 6:15 PM in the UCSC Kresge Auditorium. \nIn this thrilling competition\, teams from UCSC’s Mechatronics course will pit their autonomous robots against each other in an epic Sluggers of the Lost Goal Competition. Each robotic agent will navigate the field\, shoot ping pong balls at each other\, hide behind obstacles\, and try to score the golden goal. The champions will compete in a wild head to head tournament\, until one robot emerges victorious! The Public is welcome (and it is free)! \nThe public is invited (you might have to duck a few ping pong balls) and the teams will be on hand to explain their designs to one and all. Come see what these students have accomplished in 10 weeks and cheer on the competition. \nThere will be a live webcast starting at 6PM: www.twitch.tv/elkaim_ucsc (we will try\, might not work) \nFeel free to forward this to any and all that might be interested\, children (future engineers) especially welcome.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/sluggers-of-the-lost-goal-mud-slime-and-world-cup-madness/
LOCATION:Kresge College\, R-3 Suites\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:The Very Persistent Slug - AA/PI/SWANA Year-End Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Save the date and join the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/PIRC) on Friday\, June 5th from 6-9:30pm at the Merrill Cultural Center! Doors open at 5:30 p.m.\, with our ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. \nCome celebrate the graduating students who have contributed to the Asian American\, Pacific Islander\, and Southwest Asian & North African (AA/PI/SWANA) community at UCSC. \nOur ceremony will include faculty and student speakers\, awards\, FREE cultural stoles for graduates as they cross our stage\, and a food reception. \nInspired by Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar\, this year’s YEC theme is “The Very Persistent Slug” to celebrate the growth and determination of our graduating students. The Class of 2026 is nourished with the knowledge of their academic studies and life experiences\, grounded in community\, and is now breaking out of the slug-equivalent of their UCSC cocoons\, ready to take on the world. \nGraduates! Register at bit.ly/aapirc-yec26 to secure your FREE cultural stole!  \nTo volunteer\, please sign up at bit.ly/yec26-volunteer. \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/aa-pi-swana-year-end-ceremony/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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