Sequence to Survival: Using Genomics to Save Biodiversity
A Free Public Symposium Friday, May 1, 2026 Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz Main Campus Doors open at 12:30 PM | Program begins at 1:00 PM Registration is free […]
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Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United States
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BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and […]
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First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CAFirst Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending […]
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Sister Warriors in Conversation: Expanding Communities of Care in CA Women’s Prisons
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesThis panel discussion with Niki Martinez, Elizabeth Lozano, and Susan Bustamente of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition will be moderated by Dr. Julissa O. Muñiz, UCLA. Organized for Visualizing Abolition, the event will talk […]
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Statistics Seminar: Advancing Statistical Rigor in Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Using In Silico Control Data
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Guan’ao Yan, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Description: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics technologies now let us map cellular diversity and tissue organization at high resolution, but the computational methods […]
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AM Seminar: Engineering the Earth’s Climate
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Dr. Pulkit Dubey, Postdoc, UC Santa Cruz Description: Neural climate emulators such as NeuralGCM and LUCIE offer efficient, differentiable alternatives to General Circulation Models (GCMs), producing climate predictions at […]
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May Slugs and Steins with Professor Soraya Murray
Virtual EventTECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination In this presentation, visual culture scholar Soraya Murray (Film + Digital Media Department, UCSC) shares her new book, TECHNOTHRILLER: Film and the American Imagination (MIT, Feb […]
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Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods Book Talk
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with co-editors Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug and contributor Tim Crews about their new book Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods. Following the conversation, we’ll enjoy a tasting of perennial treats, and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. Living Roots makes the case for putting […]
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Learn more about high school health pathways
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesAt this interactive info session about our new program for college-bound high schoolers, Dr. Deepthi Nair, senior director of the UC Santa Cruz Premed Postbacc Program, will talk about the UC […]
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The 60th Faculty Research Lecture, featuring Professor Patty Gallagher, department of Performance, Play & Design
Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CAThis lecture is an annual event which dates back to 1967; selected Faculty Research Lecturers are considered an elite group, as the honor is among the highest bestowed upon a faculty member by his or her own campus colleagues.
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Wang, Q. (STAT) – Modern Statistical Methods for Modeling Spatial and Temporal Processes
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventModern scientific studies increasingly rely on complex datasets exhibiting spatial and temporal dependence, particularly in social, environmental, and climate applications. This dissertation develops statistical models and computational methods for analyzing […]
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CSE Colloquium – Evaluating AI Agents in the Real World: Lessons from Two Benchmarks
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Tanya Roosta, AMD Abstract: Autonomous research and web-navigation agents — OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini Deep Research Max, OpenAI Operator — are now shipping to millions of users. Yet independent evaluation finds leading agents reach less than 68% rubric compliance, and recent work shows that 14+ points of MMLU “performance” disappears once contamination is removed […]
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Servingness en Acción: Nurturing Student Leadership Rooted in Cariño, Cultura, y Comunidad
Virtual EventPresented by El Centro Lead Student Coordinators, Joselyn Salgado Lomeli and Giovanna Fernandez This is the 1st session of a 2-part Student-led HSI Equity Talks Series titled “From Voice to […]
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International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin America
Engineering Building 2, E2-180Please register by Monday, May 4, 2026. If attending virtually, a Zoom link will be shared after you register. Join us for the International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin America, a collaborative hybrid event hosted by the Division of Global Engagement and the Division of Graduate Studies. This forum is intended for faculty and […]
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Social Movements Across Generations: A Film Screening and Platica with Carmen Perez Jordan
Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United StatesWhen: Thursday, May 7, 2026 Where: Cultural Center at Merrill, UC Santa Cruz, 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Time: 5:00-7:30pm, doors open at 4:30pm Join us for an […]
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Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesPlease join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. The internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse […]
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The Annual Maya K. Peterson Memorial Lecture
University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA“Colonizing Water: Empire, Commodification, and Appropriation in Africa” Matthew Bender, Professor of History, The College of New Jersey Friday, May 8, 2:30-4:00pm; Alumni Room @ UCSC’s University Center In early 2018, […]
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Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventComplex societal problems (e.g. wicked problems) such as those brought on by climate change can be addressed through a combination of Research through Design (RtD), co-design, and Serious Games (SG) […]
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AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Anil Damle, Associate Professor, Cornell University Description: The column subset selection problem is a classical topic in numerical linear algebra, with renewed interest driven by applications in computational quantum […]
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Statistics Seminar: Learning under Constraints and Extremes: Methods and Applications in Energy Systems
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Yu Zhang, Associate Professor, ECE Department of UC, Santa Cruz Description: Modern cyber-physical systems present statistical learning problems that deviate significantly from standard i.i.d. supervised settings. In particular, two challenges frequently arise: (i) learning under hard structural constraints, and (ii) learning under severe distributional imbalance and rare events. In this talk, I present two […]