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SUMMARY:2026 Right Livelihood International Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy\, collective intelligence\, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates\, students\, faculty\, and community partners across continents\, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes\, the conference positions education as a democratic practice and the Right Livelihood College as a steward of dialogue\, student voice\, and long-term institutional learning. \nRegistration is free and open to the public. Sign up to receive conference updates\, session links\, and participation opportunities.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/2026-right-livelihood-international-conference/
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CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Ph.D. Presentations,Seminars,Social Gathering,Training,Undergraduate,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Slug48—Student Film Competition\, Screening\, and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The third annual Slug48 returns with a 48-hour film competition—open to all UC Santa Cruz students. A 48-hour film is one that is written\, shot\, edited\, and all music composed within a 48-hour time period. Teams and strategies for filming may be formed ahead of time\, but nothing can be written\, and no footage can be shot\, until the clock is ticking. Slug48 was founded in 2024 thanks to the support and enthusiasm of UC Santa Cruz alumnus Kevin Nolting\, former editor at Pixar Animation Studios\, where he edited the Academy Award-winning films Up!; Inside Out; and Soul. \nABOUT THE EVENT \nCompetition Opens\nFri.\, April 24\, 5:00 p.m. | UCSC Communications 139\n– parameters assigned (a theme\, a prop\, a line of dialogue that must be in the film to ensure nothing was shot ahead of time)\n– filming begins\n– open to all UCSC students\n– advanced registration recommended here; however students can sign up at the Competition Opens event \nCompetition Closes\nSun. April 26\, 5:00 p.m.\n– filming concludes\n– submit the finished film \nFilm Screening & Awards Ceremony\nWed.\, April 29\, event time to be announced | Kresge 3105\n– films judged by a panel of celebrity judges\, chaired by Kevin Nolting\n– open admission for friends/family of the filmmakers and UCSC affiliates \nDownload and share the event flyer here.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/slug48/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Award(s) Ceremony,Competition,Film Screening,Reception
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar: Edward Wang\, "Inventing a New Blood Pressure Monitor"
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Edward Wang \nDescription: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk\, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor\, from Seismo\, which used smartphone accelerometers to measure pulse transit time\, to BPClip\, a dollar clip that brought calibration-free oscillometry to the fingertip\, to VibroBP\, which eliminated the attachment entirely using the phone’s vibration motor. Each project was born from the limitations of the last. And each time we thought we’d solved the problem\, new layers of unknowns appeared around usability\, manufacturing\, and FDA classification. This is a talk about what inventing looks like when you zoom in past the papers and patents. Less about creating something new\, and more about finding the unknowns between a need and its solution\, and creatively working through them\, one by one.” \nBio: Dr. Edward J. Wang is the Jacobs Faculty Chair in Entrepreneurship Associate Professor of Design and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC San Diego\, where he directs the Digital Health Technologies Lab. His research explores practical solutions to address real-world medical needs drawn from collaborations with clinicians and world health organizations\, but solved using new and creative insights that leverage state-of-the-art applied machine learning\, embedded systems\, and mobile sensors. He has been named an NAI Senior Member\, NIH Trailblazer\, Norman Design Laureate\, and Google Research Scholar. He publishes in premier computer science and health science venues including ACM IMWUT\, CHI\, UIST\, Nature Publishing\, Frontiers in Digital Health\, and JMIR\, having been awarded 9 best paper awards. He actively engages in the translation of research through faculty entrepreneurship. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his B.S. from Harvey Mudd College. \nHosted by: Professor Christina Chung \nWhen: Monday\, April 27\, 2026 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM \nLocation:  \nIN-PERSON @  SVC 3212. \nViewing room @ UCSC Main Campus\, E2-280. \nLUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT BOTH LOCATIONS! Faculty and students are highly encouraged to attend. \nZoom info: \nhttps://ucsc.zoom.us/j/91516487260?pwd=6qaylO1FY0XjYHIrFnxJqCikmypxam.1\nMeeting ID: 915 1648 7260\nPasscode: 086900 \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cm-seminar-edward-wang-inventing-a-new-blood-pressure-monitor/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar: Active Learning for Fair and Stable Allocations
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya\, Postdoc\, UCSC \nDescription: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents on their allocations\, we focus on scenarios where feedback is available only from a carefully select subset of agents at each epoch of the online resource allocation process. Despite this limitation\, our algorithms achieve sub-linear regret in the number of time-periods for multiple fairness metrics commonly used in resource allocation problems and stability constraints inherent to matching mechanisms. The core innovation of our approach lies in the adaptive identification of the most informative feedback through dueling upper and lower confidence bounds. This strategy enables efficient decision-making with limited feedback\, achieving favorable outcomes across various problem classes. \nAbout the speaker: I am Riddhiman Bhattacharya\, currently a postdoc at UCSC\, Statistics Department\, working with Justin (Sangwon Hyun). I have previously been a postdoc at Purdue and have obtained my PhD from the University of Minnesota in Statistics. I am interested in methodological development in statistics with varied applications including oceanography\, biology and economics. I am also interested in theoretical development of statistics particularly in the fields of Markov Chain Monte Carlo\, Optimization and Fast Sampling.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/statistics-seminar-active-learning-for-fair-and-stable-allocations/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Machine Learning in Molecular Simulations: From Free Energy to Vibrational Spectroscopy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Marcos Calegari Andrade\, Assistant Professor\, Chemistry and Biochemistry\, UC Santa Cruz \nDescription: In this talk\, I will demonstrate how neural networks can represent the high-dimensional potential energy surfaces of many-body systems. By achieving the accuracy of first-principles quantum calculations at a fraction of the computational cost\, these models enable atomistic simulations of condensed matter at unprecedented scales. I will discuss how this approach provides a detailed lens into chemical reaction dynamics under experimentally relevant conditions and facilitates the direct calculation of observables\, such as vibrational spectra\, effectively bridging the gap between theoretical simulation and experimental observation. \nAbout the speaker: Marcos Calegari Andrade is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He earned his PhD from Princeton University\, where he developed machine learning models to simulate the chemistry and vibrational spectroscopy of condensed-phase systems. He later joined the Quantum Simulations Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, applying deep neural network models to fundamental challenges in climate and energy security. His current research at UCSC focuses on the application of machine learning to molecular simulations\, with a particular emphasis on chemical reaction mechanisms\, vibrational spectroscopy\, and the development of automated simulation frameworks. \nThis seminar is hosted by Applied Mathematics
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-machine-learning-in-molecular-simulations/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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