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SUMMARY:ReView
DESCRIPTION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\nAugust 13-September 19\, 2026 \nOpening celebration and Artist Talk\nSaturday\, August 15\, 2-4:30 p.m\nLight refreshments will be served. \nSummer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday\, 1-5pm \nReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda\, the Sesnon’s Director\, ReView includes a wide variety of media and techniques highlighting the diversity of contemporary practice of alumni who graduated from 1972 to 2025. The exhibition title alludes to the portfolio critique process and suggests ideas of reflection and reevaluation—whether revisiting past work\, rethinking materials\, or tracing how a practice evolves over time. \nThis exhibition celebrates the creative path of artists who began their journeys at UC Santa Cruz. United by shared roots yet defined by distinct paths\, the participating alumni reflect the lasting influence of the Arts Division programs. Their works speak to the spirit of inquiry\, experimentation\, and perseverance that has long shaped the university’s artistic community. \nReView presents an opportunity for the campus and larger community to see the professional practice of these artists who continue to build on the creative foundation that they received at UCSC and to inspire our current students\, offering visualization of their own future artistic journeys after graduation. \nReView offers a unique opportunity for returning alumni to celebrate their creative expressions while reconnecting with classmates and the university community. \nAdmission is free and open to the public.  \nMore Information
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/review/2026-08-13/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Return to the Redwoods 2026
DESCRIPTION:Get ready to Return to the Redwoods! Reconnect with friends\, family\, and fellow alumni as you explore the beauty of UC Santa Cruz. From the kick-off party and Stars & S’mores to hikes\, workshops\, and family-friendly fun\, this weekend offers something for everyone. \nTicket\, housing\, and registration details will be shared in early 2026—stay tuned! \nYou won’t want to miss it.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/return-to-the-redwoods-2026/
LOCATION:John R. Lewis College\, College Ten Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:ReView
DESCRIPTION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\nAugust 13-September 19\, 2026 \nOpening celebration and Artist Talk\nSaturday\, August 15\, 2-4:30 p.m\nLight refreshments will be served. \nSummer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday\, 1-5pm \nReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda\, the Sesnon’s Director\, ReView includes a wide variety of media and techniques highlighting the diversity of contemporary practice of alumni who graduated from 1972 to 2025. The exhibition title alludes to the portfolio critique process and suggests ideas of reflection and reevaluation—whether revisiting past work\, rethinking materials\, or tracing how a practice evolves over time. \nThis exhibition celebrates the creative path of artists who began their journeys at UC Santa Cruz. United by shared roots yet defined by distinct paths\, the participating alumni reflect the lasting influence of the Arts Division programs. Their works speak to the spirit of inquiry\, experimentation\, and perseverance that has long shaped the university’s artistic community. \nReView presents an opportunity for the campus and larger community to see the professional practice of these artists who continue to build on the creative foundation that they received at UCSC and to inspire our current students\, offering visualization of their own future artistic journeys after graduation. \nReView offers a unique opportunity for returning alumni to celebrate their creative expressions while reconnecting with classmates and the university community. \nAdmission is free and open to the public.  \nMore Information
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/review/2026-08-14/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Krishnaswamy\, L. (CSE) - Network Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Datacenters
DESCRIPTION:As datacenters scale up and become more geographically distributed\, wide-area network inter-datacenter traffic\, which typically consists of data-heavy tasks\, has become increasingly prevalent. Some of the noteworthy challenges raised by the coexistence and interaction between inter- and intra-datacenter traffic are the differences in their QoS requirements\, link utilization\, and round-trip times. To the best of our knowledge\, these challenges have not yet been addressed by current datacenter load balancers. To highlight this gap\, we conducted a comparative performance study of state-of-the-art datacenter load balancers. Through extensive simulations\, we study how they perform under different network topologies and workloads\, including intra-datacenter\, inter-datacenter\, and mixed intra- and inter-datacenter workloads that reflect how datacenters have evolved to keep up with their continuously changing driving application landscape. Our study shows that current load balancers are not able to adequately distribute load under inter-DC workloads as well as mixed intra- and inter-datacenter traffic coexistence.\nMotivated by our observations\, we introduce Balancia\, a transport agnostic\, lightweight network load balancer that dynamically switches between per-flow and per-packet control in order to provide adequate performance for both intra- and inter-DC traffic given their different characteristics and quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. We show that\, when compared against state-of-the-art load balancers\, Balancia achieves close to 80% reduction in the 99% tail flow completion times for inter-datacenter traffic in the presence of intra- and inter-datacenter workload coexistence. Further in this work\, we explore proactively monitoring for congestion with the help of phantom queues and rerouting flows in a timely manner. Through Balancia2.0 we decouple congestion control and load balancing signaling\, and examine its effects on DC and WAN traffic. \nEvent Host: Lakshmi Krishnaswamy\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Katia Obraczka \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94414934371?pwd=7P3Umt0QQ930ESV02jMvCVHVbkIp9r.1 \nPasscode: 905786
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/krishnaswamy-l-cse-network-load-balancing-for-geographically-distributed-datacenters/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, 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/2026-08-14/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Aliamooei Lakeh\, S. (ECE) - Optimization and Decision-Support Frameworks for Resilient Power Systems Under Large-Scale Electrification
DESCRIPTION:The rapid electrification of transportation is creating new interdependencies between power and transportation systems\, particularly during extreme events and disasters. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increases\, evacuation-related charging demand\, infrastructure disruptions\, and limited access to energy resources introduce challenges that conventional power system planning and operation frameworks were not designed to address. Wildfires provide a critical example: transmission outages and public safety power shutoffs can reduce network capacity while evacuation simultaneously concentrates charging demand along affected transportation corridors. Improving resilience therefore requires coordinated decision-making across the full disaster lifecycle\, from infrastructure preparedness to emergency operation and post-disaster recovery.\nThis research develops optimization and decision-support methods for resilient power systems under large-scale transportation electrification\, addressing three complementary stages of resilience. First\, the research will extend existing infrastructure planning models through a two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming framework for the strategic siting and sizing of distributed generation\, energy storage systems\, and EV charging infrastructure under disaster uncertainty. Second\, building on a developed single-period nonlinear AC optimal power flow formulation\, the research will extend the framework to multi-period operation to coordinate priority-based EV evacuation charging with mobile EV charger dispatch during grid contingencies while explicitly representing voltage and thermal operating constraints. Third\, a mixed-integer routing and scheduling framework is proposed for the deployment of mobile energy resources\, including energy tankers and vehicle-to-everything (V2X)-capable fleets\, to support electric transportation and critical loads when conventional infrastructure is disrupted.\nTogether\, these components connect long-term infrastructure planning\, emergency grid operation\, and post-disaster energy recovery within an integrated optimization and decision-support framework. The research will build on preliminary results obtained using IEEE benchmark systems and will incorporate California case studies representing wildfire and flooding scenarios. Resilience will be evaluated using technical and operational metrics such as load not served\, priority-weighted EV energy served\, and recovery time. The overall goal is to provide decision-support tools for utilities\, transportation agencies\, and emergency planners to support resilient planning\, operation\, and recovery in increasingly electrified energy and transportation systems. \nEvent Host: Saeed Aliamooei Lakeh\, Ph.D. Student\, Electrical & Computer Engineering \nAdvisors: Keith Corzine and Leila Parsa \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95295718011?pwd=1Y5vBhoBX9V5OVQ3MJzy4FgyhtO9eb.1 \nPasscode: 545834
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/aliamooei-lakeh-s-ece-optimization-and-decision-support-frameworks-for-resilient-power-systems-under-large-scale-electrification/
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