“The Eternal Song” Film Screening
The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures. Voices from across generations and traditions invite us to witness the enduring scars of colonization on lands […]
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Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA
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Virtual Resume Review
Virtual EventMeet with actual recruiters for this virtual resume review! You’ll get a chance to show them your resume and get feedback from professionals.
Get career ready with Career Success!
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BME Seminar: Population Genetics in an Era of Genomic Health
Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Dr. Eimear Kenny, Founding Director of the Institute for Genomic Health and a Endowed Chair and Professor for Genomic Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai […]
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Sambamurthy, A. (AM) – Lazy Diffusion: Resolving Spectral Collapse in Generative Models for Turbulence
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventDiffusion-based generative models offer a principled framework for probabilistic forecasting, but we show they suffer from a fundamental spectral collapse when applied to turbulent flows. A Fourier-space analysis of the […]
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El Centro, SASA, LALS, MEChA presents: Understanding Venezuela: History, Power, and Multiple Perspectives
Stevenson Fireside Lounge 101 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CAThere is no single Venezuelan experience. Stories from Venezuela and the Venezuelan diaspora are shaped by history, politics, migration, and personal circumstances, and they often differ from one another in […]
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Your path to medical school starts here.
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesAre you considering medical school and seeking a clear, supportive path forward? Join the University of California, Santa Cruz, for a free online informational session to learn more about our […]
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OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting
Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin OLLI for a social hour and presentation with Professor Benjamin Storm, “Remembering and Forgetting in the Digital Age,” as we discuss how new technologies have the potential to greatly enhance and expand the functioning of human memory, but they can also carry unintended consequences.
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CSE Colloquium – Query Optimization: How to design a Meta-Algorithm that designs Algorithms?
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Mahmoud Abo Khamis, RelationalAI Abstract: Database systems have evolved from simple bookkeeping tools to comprehensive data analytics platforms capable of learning from the data and making business decisions. As a result, database queries expanded in their expressive power and applications to include tensor computations, constraint satisfaction problems, graph analytics, scientific computing, SAT solving, among […]
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Creative Interventions: “Empathy in the Archives” with Irene Lusztig
Virtual EventAcross a range of projects, filmmaker/artist, archival researcher, and UC Santa Cruz Film + Digital Media Professor Irene Lusztig discusses her creative practice working with archival materials to reanimate hidden, […]
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Reframing the STEM Classroom: Justice as Pedagogical Practice
Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CAIn this conversation, Jabari Jones, Emily Murai, and Kriti Sharma reflect on their experiences integrating justice into teaching and curriculum design. They discuss why this work is critical for STEM fields […]
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Networking Skills 101
Career Success Student Lounge (125 Hahn) 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDoes the concept of “networking” leave you feeling a little mystified? Everyone says this is an essential skill for career development, but how do we do it effectively? Join us […]
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Slugs at Sundown: Strengthening Your Professional Brand
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesIn a constantly evolving job market, having a clear and authentic professional brand can open doors at any career stage. Join fellow Banana Slugs for a practical, engaging conversation focused […]
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Fredrickson, K. (CSE) – Practical Anonymity with Formal Resistance to Traffic Analysis
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventAnonymous communication systems hide who is talking to whom, not just what is said. However, existing systems are either vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks–attacks where adversaries observe and correlate the […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House
Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! Join the Pickwick Club for a series of discussions about ‘Bleak House.’
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ECE 290 Seminar: High-Frequency Circuits for Next-Generation Communication: From Beyond-5G mm-Wave MIMO to Co-Packaged Optics
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Susnata Mondal, Research Scientist, Intel Description: Rapid growth in wireless connectivity, cloud computing, and AI infrastructure is driving an urgent need for communication systems that can deliver higher data […]
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AM Seminar: Multiscale Modeling of Cellular Membranes and Oncogenic Proteins
Presenter: Liam Stanton, Professor, San Jose State University Description: In this talk, I will present a multiscale model for cellular membranes, which is trained on molecular dynamics simulations. The model […]
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Statistics Seminar: Rotated Mean-Field Variational Inference and Iterative Gaussianization
Presenter: Sifan Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University Description:Mean-field variational inference (MFVI) approximates a target distribution with a product distribution in the standard coordinate system, offering a […]
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Arts Division – Application and Interview Skills That Will Get You A Great Job!
Virtual EventHaving a stand-out application and exceptional interview skills are essential for landing a great job! Join us for this fast-paced and interactive one-hour online workshop where we’ll explore how to submit an application that makes an employer WANT to interview you, as well as top-notch tips and techniques to prepare for and answer interview questions with intentionality, confidence, and skill.
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Teaching Symposium — Teaching Week 2026
Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CAThis is the kick-off event for Teaching Week 2026. The symposium will showcase the work of instructors (including grads, lecturers, senate faculty) presenting on a teaching innovation, activity, program, or scholarly work. Presentation modalities include posters and short spoken presentations. Application to Present RSVP here to attend
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Liu, C. (CSE) – Enabling LLM Unlearning at Inference Time by Decomposing Detection and Intervention
Virtual EventMachine unlearning addresses the “right to be forgotten” under GDPR and enables privacy, copyright, and safety compliance in large language models. Training-based unlearning can remove targeted behavior on benchmarks, but it scales poorly, can degrade utility, and can fail under adversarial prompting that recovers supposedly forgotten content. This prospectus proposes inference-time behavioral unlearning: rather than […]