• BME 280B Seminar: Satellite repeats encode megabase-scale transcription factor hubs

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Matt Franklin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University Description: Eukaryotic genomes contain large stretches of repetitive DNA called satellite DNA, often found near centromeres and ribosomal DNA regions. In humans, alpha […]

  • Allen van Gelder Memorial

    University Center University Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    You are cordially invited to an event celebrating the life and research legacy of Allen van Gelder, who passed away in April 2025 after 37 years of dedicated service to the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC Santa Cruz. Thursday, January 29, 2025 Reception begins 1pm, Program begins 1:30pm Alumni Room, University Center, UC […]

  • Unlock Your Career: 10 Essential Strategies for Success in an AI-Driven World

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

    Are you ready to thrive in today’s fast-moving professional world — especially in one shaped by innovation, technology, and AI?  Success in today’s AI-driven economy requires more than technical skills—it […]

  • Pesticide Impacts in and around Monterey Bay lecture

    Intersections of Climate Change
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    The short- and long-term health impacts of pesticide use for local communities on land as well as in the ocean are addressed in a conversation with Yanely Martinez, Katherine Gabriel-Cox, Adam Scow and Logan Pallin. This event is presented as part of as part of the Intersections of Climate Change series, and is organized with […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • AI Workshop Series: AI in the Semiconductor Industry

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

    Explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the semiconductor industry—from design to manufacturing. In this AI workshop, students will examine how AI is being applied to chip design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), and production workflows, with a focus on real-world use cases and emerging industry trends. Through expert insights and practical examples, this session highlights how […]

    $145
  • Connect To Your Roots: BIPOC Herbalism

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The People of Color Sustainability Collective invites you to Connect To Your Roots! We will be sharing and connecting with generational knowledge and empowering BIPOC to take control of their own food systems, particularly medicinal herbs, through a variety of educational hands-on activities. We aim for this event to enhance BIPOC visibility on campus, and […]

  • ECE Seminar: Advanced Packaging as the Engine of the AI Systems Era

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

    Presenter: Tolga Acikalin, System and Package Architect, Lumilens Description: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning—most notably recent breakthroughs in large language models—is reshaping the trajectory of the semiconductor industry and ushering in a new era of system innovation. As performance scaling at the device level slows, heterogeneous integration (HI) has emerged as […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning from a Nonlinear Time Series Perspective

    Hybrid Event

    Presenter: Jiaqi Li, William H. Kruskal Instructor, University of Chicago Description:Modern machine learning (ML) algorithms achieve remarkable empirical success, yet providing rigorous statistical guarantees remains a major challenge, particularly in distributional theory and online inference methods. In this talk, we will introduce a novel framework to provide mathematical foundations for ML by bringing powerful tools […]

  • AM Seminar: Are Graph Learning Methods Actually Learning?

    Presenter: Seshadhri Comandur, Professor of Computer Science, UCSC Description: There has been a lot of literature on graph machine learning over the past few years, and a bewildering array of new methods. This talk is based on a series of results making a provocative argument. Maybe many graph machine learning methods are not really that […]

  • VMCC Series: Yiman Wang

    Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Yiman Wang lecture

    FREE and open to the public
  • Kraw Lecture: Learning Earth’s Biodiversity via Space and eDNA

    3175 Bowers Avenue Santa Clara, CA 95054 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    The California DNA Program (CALeDNA), launched from the University of California in 2017, has been tackling the massive disconnection in scales of measuring nature from satellite-based sensing down to DNA […]

  • Regulatory Affairs Info Session

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

    Lead regulatory strategy in the evolving medical device industry. As global regulations become increasingly complex, professionals who can navigate FDA, EU, and international requirements are in high demand. Learn how […]

  • Pre-College Program Info Session

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

    Learn more about our Pre-College Programs Discover what’s possible in Summer 2026! Join us for a one-hour info session to learn about our Pre-College programs, including courses, eligibility, and how […]