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  • Ellen Bass

    Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of […]

  • Ramollari, H. (ECE) – An Optofluidic Spectrometer and Applications in Biosensing

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

    Miniaturized spectrometers have the potential to replace bulky and expensive benchtop models. We have previously demonstrated a multimode interference (MMI) waveguide-based spectrometer that achieves high performance while minimizing its footprint. In this talk, the integration of the MMI spectrometer into an optofluidic device is proposed. This integration opens up applications such as the detection of […]

  • Torres, S. (ECE) – An Integrated Platform for Real-time Monitoring and Support of 3D Tissue Growth

    Virtual Event

    Organoids are three-dimensional tissue cultures that model real organs and serve as valuable tools for studying development, disease, and treatment response. Traditional methods, which rely on manual handling and incubators, limit consistency and real-time monitoring. To address these issues, we developed a modular microfluidic platform that integrates automated feeding, live fluorescence imaging, and environmental control […]

  • Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures

    Hybrid Event

    Most optimization problems face the challenge of computing an optimum solution requiring superpolynomial time. In particular, they are classified as NP-hard problems that have no polynomial-time algorithm to date. Instead, computer scientists turn to find an approximate solution and create numerous elegant algorithms. However, in the modern era, computational environments have changed drastically, and we […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Fundamental Nanopower Analog Circuits

    Presenter: Joey Sankman, Analog/Power Designer, Analog Devices Description: With the rising interest in edge computing, and the addition of AI/ML functionality, nanopower circuits are in great demand to reduce the quiescent power consumption of remote sensors. In this tutorial, fundamental building blocks for nanopower circuits will be covered, including startup-less low-voltage references, low-frequency clocks, and […]

  • AM Seminar: Linear Stochastic Emulators of the Ocean Circulation based on Balanced Truncation: A Caution, perhaps, for Machine Learning?

    Presenter: Professor Andy Moore, UCSC Ocean Sciences Description: Linear inverse models have enjoyed considerable popularity in the geosciences, particularly in the arena of climate research and climate prediction, for several decades as a straightforward approach to dimension reduction and streamlining computational efficiency. The most common approach is to truncate the system by retaining the leading […]

  • Dried Wreath Workshop

    Dried Wreath Workshop

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

    Learn how to create beautiful, long-lasting dried flower holiday wreaths with instructor Beth Benjamin. She will demonstrate the mechanics of putting everything together and will have a couple examples to guide your inspiration. Personal artistic style is highly encouraged! You’ll be able to choose from a wide selection of dried materials from the UCSC Farm […]

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  • AM Seminar: Denoising: A Powerful Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist, Google Description: Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in imaging, have achieved remarkable success, nearing theoretical limits by some measures. Yet, despite tens of […]

  • UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan Informational Webinar

    Please join us to learn more about the UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).  The Campus Planning Department is hosting an upcoming informational webinar about the proposed Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for the Main Residential Campus, Westside Research Park and the Coastal Science Campus on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. The informational webinar will provide information to the campus […]

    Free

  • NLP MS Virtual Information Session

    Virtual Event

    Interested in a career in generative AI? Join us Dec. 2 from 7 – 8 PM for our Virtual Information Session. Learn more about our program, based at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, where you can earn your NLP MS in as little as 15 months. We offer: Application fee waivers for UCSC students and […]

  • When Less is More: Applications of Type-Based Underapproximate Reasoning

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

    Presenter: Suresh Jagganathan, Purdue University Abstract: Unlike program verifiers, symbolic execution and property-based testing tools underapproximate program behavior: they aim to report only real bugs (no false positives), at the cost of potentially missing some (false negatives). Recent work has sought to place such tools on a more formal footing, primarily through the development of incorrectness […]

    Free
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    Learn about the Educational Therapy Certificate Program

    Virtual Event

    Transform learning. Join Educational Therapy certificate program chair Sharmila Roy for a thoughtful program overview and hear how the uniquely designed curriculum empowers educators and professionals to make a lasting impact– in the classroom and beyond. As one of the few AET-approved programs, you’ll learn to assess learning challenges and apply effective, research-based interventions. Empower […]

  • BME 280B Seminar: Gali Bai & David Haussler

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter 1: Gali Bai, BME/PBSE Doctoral Candidate, Brooks Lab, UC Santa Cruz Title 1: Dissecting the contribution of chromatin accessibility to RNA transcription and processing with long-read sequencing Description: Although all cells in an organism share the same genomic sequence, transcriptional programs vary dramatically across cell types. This diversity is governed by epigenetic regulation involving […]

  • Return to Nanga Jela

    Pemulai ke Nanga Jela/Return to Nanga Jela

    Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
    Hybrid Event

    About the Talk: The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other […]

    Free
  • Three figurs standing atop of three question marks holding telescopes.

    Future careers: What will work look like in 2030?

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

    Join Dean PK Agarwal for this free online session. He’ll lead a forward-looking conversation on emerging job roles in tech, sustainability, health, and creative industries. Learn how industry convergence and global trends are shaping new career paths and the skills you’ll need to stay relevant. Discover which industries are driving job creation and how roles […]