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ECE 290 Seminar: From Code to Clinic: How Regulatory Science and Virtual Trials Ensure Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging

ECE 290 Seminar: From Code to Clinic: How Regulatory Science and Virtual Trials Ensure Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. Brandon Nelson, Staff Fellow, Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability (DIDSR), U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) Description: Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming diagnostic and interventional radiology, presenting immense opportunities for improving patient care alongside significant regulatory challenges. As AI/ML-enabled devices proliferate, how do we ensure […]

Make Your Resume Awesome!

Does your resume need a little help?  Are you unsure about where to start, or about how to make your resume absolutely fantastic?  Join us for this 30-minute workshop to learn about cutting-edge resume best practices, followed by an optional 30 minutes of "resume work time" where you can meet individually with a coach to […]

CSE Colloquium: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems

CSE Colloquium: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Hyeran Jeon, UC Merced Title: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems Abstract: GPUs have become one of the most important accelerators of various emerging workloads. While the massive parallelism makes the GPUs one of the most favorable compute engines, the limited on-device memory capacity hinders their wider adoption. Virtual memory systems […]

Moss Adams x Baker Tilly Info Session

Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA

Interested in a career in public accounting? Come chat with our Tax and Audit professionals about our 2026 internship opportunities and learn more about life at Moss Adams x Baker Tilly! Our 2026 internship opportunities are available for current seniors and juniors pursuing a CPA license. Stop by anytime between 11:00AM – 1:00PM and enjoy […]

Alex Ioannidis

BME 280B Seminar: Computational Precision Health & Genomic Diversity

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. Alex Ioannidis, BME Assistant Professor, UCSC Description: N/A Bio: Alex Ioannidis graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard and completed an M.Phil in Computational Biology in the Dept. of Applied Math & Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford and M.S. in […]

How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, […]

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How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, […]

Free
Dismantling the Deportation Machine...

Dismantling the Deportation Machine…

Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA

Dismantling the Deportation Machine: A Conversation on Migration, Expulsion, and Xenophobia Join Carlos Martinez as he moderates a powerful discussion with Megan Carney, Heide Castañeda, and Gilberto Rosas on the urgent U.S. and global trends shaping the politics of migration, deportation, and xenophobia. As authoritarianism and xenophobia intensify globally, this distinguished panel will offer critical […]

Free
Environmental Health and Justice: Successes and Future Challenges

Environmental Health and Justice: Successes and Future Challenges

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Please join us for this collaborative, interdisciplinary symposium to highlight and celebrate the important work being done in Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature talks on environmental determinants of health by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates,speakers from the community,and will be headlined by environmental health luminary keynote speaker Brenda Eskenazi from UC Berkeley.

Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference

Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference

Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us October 4th for a regional conference on California Farmworkers and the Environment! The conference will address the challenges of resilience amid the impacts of climate changes and the many other compounding risks farmworkers face. Free and open to the public.

Free
Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range of media. Grenier is both inspired by the beauty of life closely examined and horrified by man’s trajectory. She works from a large mental catalog […]

FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
Fall-Planted Cut Flowers Workshop

Fall-Planted Cut Flowers Workshop

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Join us for a jump on your spring garden for next year! In this fall planting class, we’ll discuss the perennials that can be grown for cutting, as well as fall-planted annuals. This class will help you understand the many benefits of over-wintering cut flowers, allowing you to bring color to your vase earlier and […]

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Dy Farm Tomato Field Day

Dry Farm Tomato Field Day

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Researchers from UC Santa Cruz and the University of Oregon are studying the environmental conditions and plant traits that support successful dry-farmed tomato production on 10 different varieties. Join us for a Field Day focused on research that aims to help small-scale organic farmers adapt to our changing climate. We will be recruiting three growers […]

Free

ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Description: The adoption of new types of generation and loads, such as data centers, small modular reactors, and electric vehicles servicing equipment presents many challenges for system operators who are tasked with maintaining the safety and efficiency of the power grid.  New consumption […]

SF Tech Week

AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders, investors, innovators and top researchers converge to explore the technologies shaping tomorrow. Details and reservations are available at https://partiful.com/e/OtqKL1z4hvYDLMk0uP8w

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CM Seminar – Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Presenter: Max Kreminski   About: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these tools support user creativity continues to grow. In this talk, I discuss several related approaches to making sense of user interactions with creativity support […]

Max Kreminski

Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Presented by Max Kreminski Description: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these tools support user creativity continues to grow. In this talk, I discuss several related approaches to making sense of user interactions with creativity support tools. […]

AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sonoma State University   Description: Many mathematical models of traffic are macroscopic in nature, meaning that they model the relationship between average speed, density, and flow along a road or freeway segment. One of the fundamental relationships connecting these three quantities is the flow-density relationship, for which various […]

Familiar Touch Screening

Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with […]

Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
Familiar Touch Screening

Familiar Touch Screening

Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

This public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH, the debut feature by filmmaker and choreographer Sarah Friedland, follows retired cook Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) as she navigates memory loss and mistaken identities.

Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
Last modified: Oct 06, 2025