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SUMMARY:What's new in AI?
DESCRIPTION:Chat with the AI chair\nLead innovation as a machine learning engineer\nWant to learn what’s new in AI? Join Praveen Krishna\, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Application Development certificate program\, in an informal discussion about the AI topic of the month and an open Q&A. You’ll get an insider’s look at what you need to know for where you want to go. Bring your questions. Share your experience. Plan your learning. \nEvery 2nd Wednesday | Online\nVisit our program page for a closer look at our AI App Development courses and offerings. \nRegister now.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/whats-new-in-ai/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Modulating Insulin Receptor Through New Ligands
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Danny Chou\, Associate Professor of Pediatrics\, Stanford University \nDescription: Since its discovery in 1921\, insulin has been at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs. From its amino acid sequencing to the revelation of its three‐dimensional structure\, the progress in insulin research has spurred significant therapeutic breakthroughs. In recent years\, protein engineering has introduced innovative chemical and enzymatic methods for insulin modification\, fostering the development of therapeutics with tailored pharmacological profiles. In this seminar\, I will highlight the use of new ligands to modulate insulin receptors and discuss how they continue to shape the future trajectory of insulin research. \nBio: Danny Chou is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and by courtesy\, of Chemical & Systems Biology at Stanford University. He is an affinity group leader at Stanford Diabetes Research Center. His research interests lie in the intersection of peptide therapeutics and metabolic diseases. He started his independent career as an assistant professor of biochemistry at University of Utah in 2014. He moved his lab to Stanford University in 2020 and continued their pursuit of using peptide and protein chemistry to develop therapeutics to address unmet needs.  \nHosted by: Professor Andy Yeh\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-modulating-insulin-receptor-through-new-ligands/
LOCATION:Physical Sciences Building\, Physical Sciences Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:[HSI Equity Talk] Beyond Invisibility: Reimagining Servingness to Support Undocumented Transfer Students
DESCRIPTION:Presenters: Valeria Alonso Blanco\, Dr. Saskias Casanova\, and Jesus Morales \nThis interactive talk draws on a qualitative study conducted with undocumented Latinx transfer students at a California four-year HSI. Using focus groups and reflexive thematic analysis\, we examined how these students perceive and experience institutional support\, belonging\, and barriers related to their intersectional identities. This session is designed around three goals: (1) assessing what staff and administrators currently know about undocumented students on campus\, particularly undocumented transfer students; (2) building shared knowledge through our research findings and student voices; and (3) connecting participants to existing campus resources and identifying concrete opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration. We will share key resources and actionable strategies for holistically serving undocumented transfer students. \nPlease register online. The Zoom information and a calendar invitation will be sent to those who RSVP. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/hsi-equity-talk-beyond-invisibility-reimagining-servingness-to-support-undocumented-transfer-students/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Your path to medical school starts here.
DESCRIPTION:Are you considering medical school and seeking a clear\, supportive path forward? \nJoin the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, for a free online informational session to learn more about our Summer 2026 Premed Postbacc Cohort Programs. This session is designed for students and graduates who are serious about pursuing a career in health care and want expert guidance through the medical school preparation and application process. \nDuring this session\, you’ll learn how the UCSC Premed Postbacc Program provides a structured\, cohort-based experience—offered in Silicon Valley and Marina on the Central Coast—to help students strengthen their academic foundation\, prepare for medical school\, and apply with confidence. \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/your-path-to-medical-school-starts-here-2/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fan\, Y. (CSE) - Building Human-Centered Multimodal AI Agents
DESCRIPTION:As multimodal artificial intelligence systems become increasingly embedded in everyday technology\, there is a growing need to design human-centered AI agents that support and amplify human capabilities rather than replace them. This dissertation investigates how to build human-centered multimodal AI agents\, framing human-centeredness as an agent-level objective that requires both accessible\, assistive interaction and reliable\, trustworthy behavior across physical and digital environments. This dissertation explores two complementary dimensions of human-centered agent design. The first focuses on enhancing accessibility through conversational and interactive agents that assist users in everyday tasks. We study both embodied and digital settings in which agents reduce physical and cognitive burdens via natural language interaction\, including hands-free drone control\, navigation assistance in unfamiliar environments\, and interactive access to complex graphical user interfaces. The second dimension focuses on strengthening agent capability to improve reliability and trust. We investigate how agents can acquire environment-specific knowledge through autonomous exploration and how they can reason about visual information in a grounded and transparent manner\, drawing inspiration from human learning and reasoning behaviors. \nEvent Host: Yue Fan\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science and Engineering \nAdvisor: Xin Eric Wang \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/99619642071?pwd=dwWOlkJxjbamgpB4IbRxYDXbngqXOE.1 \nPasscode- 467959
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fan-y-cse-building-human-centered-multimodal-ai-agents/
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SUMMARY:Moghadam\, M. (CE) - Constraint-Aware Scene Understanding and Trajectory Generation Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
DESCRIPTION:Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are commonly organized as modular pipelines that transform raw sensor measurements into low-level actuation commands through perception\, planning\, and control. While learning-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in perception and environment modeling\, the planning layer remains a key bottleneck for reliable autonomy. Highway driving in particular requires long-horizon reasoning and socially aware interaction with multiple actors\, while also producing smooth and dynamically feasible motion that can be tracked by classical controllers. \nThis thesis focuses on scene understanding and planning for highway driving. We study the problem through two complementary simulation environments: the high-fidelity CARLA simulator for motion planning and continuous trajectory generation under realistic vehicle dynamics and road geometry\, and the lightweight HighwayEnv simulator for interaction-rich behavior planning at high episode throughput. \nWe present three planning contributions that increase autonomy. First\, we introduce a modular hierarchical planning framework in Frenet space that combines long-term decision-making with short-term trajectory optimization. The approach includes a corridor-based dynamic obstacle avoidance strategy that generates spatiotemporal polynomial trajectories and supports diverse driving styles through interpretable parameter tuning. Second\, we propose an end-to-end continuous deep reinforcement learning approach that unifies decision-making and motion planning into a single policy that outputs continuous polynomial trajectories in the Frenet frame. A spatiotemporal observation tensor and a temporal convolutional backbone enable the learned planner to exploit interaction history and outperform optimization-based and discrete RL baselines in CARLA. Third\, we develop an interaction-aware behavior planning neural network architecture that couples trajectory prediction with high-level decision-making via a social pooling scene encoder built on actor histories and an ego-centered BEV representation. This unified design improves RL social awareness\, safety\, and overall driving performance in multi-agent highway scenarios in HighwayEnv. \nAcross extensive simulation studies\, the results show that constraint-aware representations and learning-based policies can improve planning quality beyond hand-crafted objectives\, especially when the policy is equipped with spatiotemporal social context while retaining classical feedback control for stable trajectory tracking. Finally\, we provide supporting simulation and evaluation infrastructure\, including observation tensor and neural network designs\, BEV utilities\, and scalable training and testing pipelines\, to enable reproducible research on learning-based planning in interactive traffic. \nEvent Host: Majid Moghadam\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Engineering  \nAdvisor: Gabriel Elkaim \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/95848602314?pwd=2jlktZ6BChlXcyqT3anX4ZuKrYV4wE.1 \nPasscode- 325939
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/moghadam-m-ce-constraint-aware-scene-understanding-and-trajectory-generation-using-deep-reinforcement-learning-for-autonomous-vehicles/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Wang\, H. (CSE) - Accelerating RTL Simulation with Specialized Graph Partitioners
DESCRIPTION:Register transfer level (RTL) simulation is an invaluable tool for developing\, debugging\, verifying\, and validating hardware designs. However\, the performance of RTL simulation has long been a limiting factor in industry. Despite the inherent parallelism of hardware\, current RTL simulators have not achieved practical performance gains due to fundamental challenges in communication\, synchronization\, memory bandwidth\, and architectural mapping. \nThis dissertation addresses the RTL simulation performance problem from three complementary perspectives: optimizing simulation latency through parallelism\, improving aggregate throughput via deduplication\, and enabling efficient GPU acceleration with RTL-native semantics. \nFirst\, we present RepCut\, a parallel RTL simulation methodology that uses replication-aided partitioning to cut circuits into balanced partitions with minimal overlaps. By replicating the overlaps\, RepCut eliminates problematic data dependences between partitions and significantly reduces synchronization overhead. RepCut achieves superlinear speedups of up to 27.10x using 24 threads with only a 3.81% replication cost. \nSecond\, we introduce Simulation Deduplication\, a technique that exploits the extensive reuse of building blocks in modern hardware designs. By generating shared code for duplicated instances and carefully co-scheduling their execution\, we reduce the instruction cache footprint and memory bandwidth pressure. This approach achieves up to 1.95x speedup for single simulations and 2.09x improvement in overall batch simulation throughput. \nThird\, we present Toucan\, a GPU-accelerated RTL simulation framework that preserves RTL semantics rather than flattening designs to gate-level netlists. By leveraging native GPU arithmetic operations and introducing warp-level micro-partitioning with shuffle-based communication\, Toucan achieves efficient mapping of irregular circuit topologies to GPU SIMT architectures while maintaining fast compilation times. Toucan achieves up to 4.73x speedup over the state-of-the-art GPU RTL simulator on large multi-core designs. \nTogether\, these three approaches provide a comprehensive solution to RTL simulation performance optimization\, demonstrating significant improvements over state-of-the-art commercial and open-source simulators across multiple hardware platforms and design scales. \nEvent Host: Haoyuan Wang\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science and Engineering \nAdvisor: Jose Renau \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/94044618343?pwd=xZkK8GmD28P2Vf8pbyl6aoOaNxxhya.1 \nPasscode- 574772
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/wang-h-cse-accelerating-rtl-simulation-with-specialized-graph-partitioners/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Photography from Hummingbirds to Elephants - a photo presentation by Kevin Lohman
DESCRIPTION:Join Kevin for “Wildlife Photography from Hummingbirds to Elephants” at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden in the Horticulture 2 Meeting Hall. He will offer tips for photographing hummingbirds\, share beautiful images taken at the arboretum\, and present highlights from his wildlife photography across Monterey Bay and from his travels around the globe. \nKevin Lohman is an award-winning wildlife photographer based in Santa Cruz\, California. One of his hummingbird photographs taken at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is among several of his images featured locally on a Santa Cruz METRO wildlife bus as part of the “One Ride at a Time” conservation campaign. His work has been published by National Geographic (online) and Outdoor Photographer\, and recognized in major competitions including the Audubon Photography Awards and Nature’s Best International Photography Awards. Lohman actively supports conservation organizations through the donation and use of his photography. \nThe event is free with paid admission. UCSC students and faculty receive free admission to the Arboretum. Public admission costs are: Adults $10\, Seniors $8\, and Youth (4-17) $5.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/wildlife-photography-from-hummingbirds-to-elephants-a-photo-presentation-by-kevin-lohman/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OLLI at UCSC Hosts Bruce Lyon\, Professor\, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology\nThe Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Santa Cruz invites the public to an in-person presentation from 10:00 to noon on Sunday\, March 15th\, in the Colleges Nine/Lewis Multipurpose Room at UCSC. \nJoin us for a social hour and a presentation titled\, Sparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird. \nOrnithologists often study breeding birds\, and as a result\, the winter ecology and social behavior of migratory birds is relatively understudied. A 22-year study of a population of golden-crowned sparrows that winter in the Arboretum of the University of California\, Santa Cruz was conducted. Each sparrow was given a unique combination of color bands\, which allowed us to identify individual birds in the wild and monitor their behavior and survival. Given that they survive migration and breeding\, individual sparrows return winter after winter to the arboretum and flock together with the same individuals as in previous years. We used innovative social network methods to understand the patterns of social organization and discovered remarkable social complexity in these birds that is similar in some ways to the societies of mammals\, including primates. \nProfessor Lyon seeks to understand the ecological and evolutionary basis of reproductive strategies and social behavior in animals\, particularly reproductive parasitism\, parental care\, and mating systems. One focus is to understand patterns of cooperation and reproductive parasitism in birds and insects. His passion for photography has also been very useful in his research. \nOLLI at UCSC is a community of adults from diverse educational\, occupational\, and geographic backgrounds who are devoted to the pursuit of learning. This event is free and open to the public. Bring a friend. Coffee and nibbles will be served. \nFor directions and free parking information\, visit: https://olli.ucsc.edu/monthly-gatherings/location-directions-and-parking/ \nFree and open to the public \n  \nPresented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/olli-at-ucsc-sunday-speaker-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Teng\, Z. (CM) - Visualizing Player Processes: Towards Design Guidelines for Interactive Process Visualization Tools in Game Analytics
DESCRIPTION:Game analysts face a significant challenge in understanding problem-solving and decision-making processes from the vast and complex sequential data generated by modern video games. Existing visualization tools often fail to adequately support the exploration\, suffering from issues of visual clutter\, inflexible cohort construction\, and a lack of interactive depth. To address this gap\, this dissertation adopts a Research through Design (RtD) methodology to investigate how an interactive process visualization system can be designed and developed to better support the needs of game analysts. \nThe research was conducted in three phases. First\, an initial set of five design guidelines was identified through a breakdown analysis of existing tools and semi-structured interviews with professional game analysts. Second\, these guidelines were iteratively refined through long-term\, collaborative case studies with analysts working on diverse commercial games. This process not only validated the initial guidelines and surfaced one additional guideline concerning interactive inspection\, but also resulted in INSPECT\, an interactive process visualization prototyping system that embodies the refined guidelines. Third\, the guidelines were empirically validated through two complementary user studies of the INSPECT system. A controlled experiment demonstrated that features designed according to the guidelines enabled participants to identify player strategies more efficiently than with a baseline system\, while a qualitative study with professional Dota 2 coaches and players demonstrated the system’s practical value for strategic analysis and strong usability. \nThe primary contributions of this dissertation to the fields of game analytics and information visualization is a set of validated design guidelines for process visualization tools. This contribution provides a durable and transferable framework for the design and development of more effective\, analyst-centered tools for understanding player problem-solving and decision-making processes. \nEvent Host: Zhaoqing Teng\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computational Media  \nAdvsior: Magy Seif El-Nasr \nZoom- https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97624383966?pwd=NGolaaTbhdytPcDK6aRIBDIv63b8lm.1 \nPasscode-595285
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/teng-z-cm-visualizing-player-processes-towards-design-guidelines-for-interactive-process-visualization-tools-in-game-analytics/
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:AI-Enhanced Project Management Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Transform the way you manage projects\nJoin Sri Srinivasa\, program management leader at Tesla\, for a one-day workshop focused on leveraging generative AI tools for project management. \nWorkshop goals\n\nDescribe and discuss AI technology available to Project Managers\nExplain the transformative potential of Generative AI in improving project planning\, resource allocation\, and stakeholder communication\nDemonstrate an ability to properly and effectively use generative AI for project management tasks and processes\, reducing errors\, optimizing workflows\, and saving time and resources\n\nTopics\n\nBenefits of adopting generative AI for project management\nEffective prompt engineering to optimize generative ai usage along with case examples\nIdentify use cases for generative AI in project management\nAI-driven insights for KPI & project performance measurement\n\nHere’s the workshop syllabus.  \nStudents are required to bring laptops for class exercises. \nAbout the AI Technology Workshop Series\nThe UCSC Silicon Valley Extension AI Technology Workshop Series provides an immersive AI experience. Students are introduced to new and established AI tools create and manipulate content in new and powerful ways. Each session is led by an industry expert who will guide you through the material and share its real-world implications. \n\nExplore lots of AI courses\nProject management courses\nWorkshops\n\nEnroll today.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ai-enhanced-project-management-workshop/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork\, Bleak House. This year\, we will spend the year reading the 2026 Dickens Universe novel. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about this beloved book. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nOCT 26: Chapters 8-13\nNOV 23: Chapters 14-19\nDEC 28: No meeting\nJAN 25: Chapters 20-25\nFEB 22: Chpaters 26-32\nMAR 22: Chapters 33-38\nAPR 26: Chapters 39-46\nMAY 24: Chapters 47-53\nJUN 28: Chapters 54-67 (End)\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or listen to it at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-bleak-house-2/2026-03-22/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation with author Randy Ribay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, March 23\, 2026 for a community conversation with Randy Ribay\, young adult fiction writer and National Book Award Finalist. During the event\, Randy will discuss his recent novel\, Everything We Never Had (2024)\, about four-generations of Filipino American men grappling with identity\, masculinity\, and father-son relationships. The characters’ stories traverse histories of Filipino America\, including those of Watsonville and the Pajaro Valley. Randy conducted archival research using the Watsonville is in the Heart Community Digital Archive and other repositories to create intergenerational narratives of Filipino American migration\, labor\, and family. \nOur conversation will take place in the Community Room located on the Fourth Floor of the Watsonville Civic Plaza. This event is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by Watsonville Public Library\, UCSC’s Center for Labor and Community\, Watsonville is in the Heart\, The Tobera Project\, and Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice. \n \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/community-conversation-with-author-randy-ribay/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
CREATED:20260226T220528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T232812Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Work in the Age of AI: March Slugs and Steins with Dean PK Agarwal
DESCRIPTION:The Future of Work in the Age of AI: Chaos\, Adaptation\, or Growth? \nArtificial intelligence has reignited an old debate: are we approaching mass technological unemployment\, or simply the next phase of economic evolution? Public discourse swings between dystopian predictions of human obsolescence and confident assurances that “new jobs will replace old ones.” This lecture steps back from speculation and examines evidence. Drawing on economic history and disruptive change\, going back to the wheel and the printing press to electrification\, computers\, and the internet—we explore how societies have repeatedly confronted disruptive change: moments when existing skills\, institutions\, and expectations no longer matched the pace of innovation. The goal is not to predict the future\, but to provide a framework for thinking about it—what AI may automate\, what it may amplify\, and why the real disruption may be the speed of adaptation rather than the disappearance of work itself. The talk concludes with implications for higher education\, workforce development\, and how individuals can remain resilient in an age where intelligence is no longer exclusively human. \nREGISTER \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/march-slugs-and-steins-with-dean-pk-agarwal/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260323T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
CREATED:20260305T210201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T210201Z
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SUMMARY:Bioinformatics: Lead the next wave of innovation
DESCRIPTION:Lead the next wave of innovation in life sciences and data.\nAs biotechnology and data analytics converge\, the demand for professionals who can interpret complex biological data and drive discovery continues to grow. Learn how experts in bioinformatics use computational tools\, programming\, and molecular biology to transform raw data into scientific and medical insights. \nJoin Darryl A. León\, Ph.D.\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Bioinformatics program\, for an inside look at how our courses can help you strengthen your skills in data analysis\, genomics\, and software tools—preparing you to contribute to advances in biotech\, pharmaceuticals\, and healthcare. \nThis info session is sponsored by the Bioinformatics certificate program. \nSpecial offer\nNew students get a 10% discount. Use code: FIRSTTIME10% \nClaim your seat today.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bioinformatics-lead-the-next-wave-of-innovation/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T190000
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SUMMARY:Advance your career in medical device design and quality
DESCRIPTION:As healthcare technology evolves\, professionals who understand global regulatory standards\, risk management\, and quality systems are in high demand. Learn how to design\, document\, and validate medical devices\, digital health solutions\, and AI/ML-based devices while ensuring compliance with FDA\, ISO\, and EU MDR requirements. \nJoin Kiran Gulati\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Medical Device Quality and Design program\, for an inside look at how our courses provide hands-on training\, practical case studies\, and industry-relevant skills that prepare you for roles in quality engineering\, regulatory compliance\, and design assurance. \nThis info session is sponsored by the Medical Device Quality and Design certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/advance-your-career-in-medical-device-design-and-quality/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260324T193000
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SUMMARY:Educational Therapy Program Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Transform learning\nJoin Diana Black Kennedy\, chair of UCSC Silicon Valley’s Educational Therapy certificate program\, to learn how this distinctive program prepares educators and professionals to create meaningful\, lasting impact. As one of the few programs approved by the Association of Educational Therapists (AET)\, it equips you with the skills to assess learning differences and implement research-based\, effective interventions with confidence. \nEmpower students and build your practice\nGain skills to support students with learning differences like dyslexia\, ADHD\, and autism using therapeutic and educational strategies. Whether you’re working in schools or starting a private practice\, this program helps you create individualized plans that foster meaningful progress. \nThis spring info session is sponsored by the Educational Therapy Program. \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/educational-therapy-program-info-session/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T190000
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SUMMARY:Learn more about high school health pathways
DESCRIPTION:Introducing the new High School Health Pathways Summer Academy! \nAt 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 Santa Cruz High School Health Pathways Summer Academy\, a six-week session of transformative learning\, in-person\, at the Silicon Valley Campus of UC Santa Cruz. \nLearn more about the summer academy\, which offers hands-on learning in diverse topics such as: \n\nHuman biology\nMicroscopy\nPublic health advocacy\nExpert mentorship\nField experiences\nCapstone project\n\nHigh school students\, parents\, and advisors are invited to join the discussion and bring questions. \nClaim your seat today.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/learn-more-about-high-school-health-pathways/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T175633Z
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SUMMARY:Design digital experiences people love
DESCRIPTION:In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape\, organizations need professionals who can combine empathy\, usability\, and aesthetics to create interfaces that engage and delight users. \nJoin Nicole Sharratt\, instructor and chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension User Experience and Web Design program\, for an inside look at how design specialists are using AI and the latest tools to excel in design. \n\nResearch‑driven methods\nPrototyping tools\nInclusive design principles\nSeamless digital experiences across platforms\n\nBe a design leader\nWe’ll share career trends and how our professional design courses give you the skills to lead user‑centered design projects—whether you’re shaping websites\, apps\, or digital products. \nSpeaker\nNicole Sharratt\, M.S.\, head of User Experience at Leidos QTC Health Services\, has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. She has worked as a UX leader with B2B and B2C organizations and is passionate about growing innovative UX teams and future design leaders. \nSponsor\nThis online discussion is sponsored by the User Experience and Web Design program. \nTake 10%\nNote: New students get 10% off their first course. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/design-digital-experiences-people-love/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260325T200000
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SUMMARY:The morphing of the human resources world: An HR info session
DESCRIPTION:Join Philip Ziman\, former HR executive and chair of the Human Resource Management program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension\, in exploring how the world of work is transforming and what does it mean for the future of human resources? \nWe’ll discover the MORPH framework\, a strategic planning tool that assesses\, measures\, and builds employee readiness for organizational change. We’ll also explore how AI\, labor market shifts\, compensation transparency\, and evolving employee expectations are reshaping recruiting\, performance management\, culture\, and career development. \nThis event is sponsored by the Human Resource Management certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. We prepare aspiring and early-career professionals to lead in this new era of human capital strategy and build resilient\, purpose-driven HR careers. \nRegister today.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/the-morphing-of-the-human-resources-world-an-hr-info-session/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
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SUMMARY:What's new in clinical research careers?
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been moved to Thursday\, March 26.\nAdvance your career in the global clinical research industry.\nAs the demand for safe\, effective therapies grows\, so does the need for professionals who can lead clinical trials with scientific precision and regulatory expertise. Learn how experts design and manage studies that bring medical innovations from the lab to the marketplace—applying biostatistics\, good clinical practices\, and international regulations to ensure safety and compliance. \nJoin Karim Sajwani\, chair of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Clinical Trials Design and Management program\, for an inside look at how our courses prepare you to coordinate cross-functional teams\, oversee global trials\, and navigate complex approval processes that shape the future of healthcare. \nThis event is sponsored by the Clinical Trials Design and Management certificate program. \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/whats-new-in-clinical-research-careers/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260326T190000
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SUMMARY:AI at the Edge of Embedded Systems
DESCRIPTION:An info session about the growing field of embedded systems.\nJoin Juergen Kienhoefer\, an instructor in the Embedded Systems program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension\, in exploring how Edge AI brings powerful machine learning to low-power embedded devices. \nIn his course\, AI-Driven Embedded Systems\, students prepare to build and deploy visual\, audio\, and lightweight language AI using TensorFlow Lite and Edge Impulse on OpenML hardware. Discover how this hands-on course fits within the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Embedded Systems Certificate program and will help advance your career in embedded AI. \nThis info session is sponsored by the Embedded Systems certificate program at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ai-at-the-edge-of-embedded-systems/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260330T170000
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar:  Flexible Filaments and Swimming Cups: Just Go with the Flow
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Lisa Fauci\, Professor\, Tulane University \nDescription: The motion of waving or rotating filaments in a fluid environment is a common element in many biological and engineered systems. Examples at the microscale include chains of diatoms moving in the ocean\, flagella of individual cells comprising multicellular colonies\, as well as engineered nanorobots designed to deliver drugs to tumors. In this talk we will present mathematical and computational insights into these flows at the microscale. Our modeling approaches will vary from detailed models that capture flagellar material properties and wave geometry to minimal force-dipole models that represent a flagellum by a single point. We will investigate a few intriguing systems\, including the journey of extremely long insect sperm flagella through tortuous female reproductive tracts\, and the hydrodynamic performance of shape-shifting Choanoeca flexa colonies. \nBio: Lisa Fauci received her PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University\, and directly after that joined the Department of Mathematics at Tulane University in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, USA. Her research focuses on biological fluid dynamics\, with an emphasis on using modeling and simulation to study the basic biophysics of organismal locomotion and reproductive mechanics. Lisa served as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2019-2020. She is a fellow of SIAM\, the American Mathematical Society\, the Association for Women in Mathematics\, and the American Physical Society. In 2023\, she was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences. \nHosted by: Applied Mathematics Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-flexible-filaments-and-swimming-cups-just-go-with-the-flow/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260331T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
CREATED:20260305T232932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T232932Z
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SUMMARY:A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
DESCRIPTION:Join the Cantu Queer Center and the Diversity Center for an intergenerational Trans Day of Visibility gathering rooted in euphoria\, joy\, and sacred witnessing. Trans\, nonbinary\, Two-Spirit\, and gender-expansive people of all ages are invited to share their stories\, create art\, and witness each other’s full humanity in a moment of dangerous hypervisibility and harm to our community. The event will include intergenerational story sharing\, protest sign art\, gentle restorative offerings\, live performance\, tabling with local organizations\, and light refreshments. \nThis event is open to students\, faculty\, staff\, alums\, and the wider Santa Cruz community. \nRSVP in advance. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities.  To learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/a-sacred-witnessing-a-trans-day-of-euphoria-event/
LOCATION:Diversity Center\, 1117 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Drop-In Support,Lectures & Presentations,Performances,Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
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SUMMARY:FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Fulbright Fellow Dr. Randi Solhjell. Her talk\, “Managing a Fishy Business: Norway’s foreign aid and its impact on global fisheries governance” will discuss how Norwegian actors shape global fisheries policy through diplomacy\, regulatory innovation and engagement in international institutions such as the UN FAO. She will also discuss how she studies fisheries from a social/political science lens. \nFINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories Seminar Series \nDr. Randi Solhjell\, Fulbright fellow\, University of Oslo \nTitle: Managing a Fishy Business: Norway’s foreign aid and its impact on global fisheries governance \nWhen: Wednesday\, April 1st from 11am-12pm  \nWhere: Ocean Health Building Rm 118\, 115 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060 and on Zoom \nAgenda: \n\n10:30 am – 11:00 am – Professional Networking Session (in person only – light snacks and refreshments provided)\n11 am to 12 pm – presentation followed by Q & A \n12 pm – 1pm – student lunch with the speaker in OHB courtyard → sign up here\n\nZoom Meeting Registration: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/NwH0_qUbSeuIm3A76DY-Dg \nRandi Solhjell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law\, Faculty of Law\, The University of Oslo\, and visiting Fulbright scholar at the Science and Justice Research Center\, the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fins-fisheries-insights-narratives-and-stories-seminar-series-featuring-dr-randi-solhjell/
LOCATION:Ocean Health Building\, McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Seminars,Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T121500
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
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SUMMARY:CSE Colloquium - Messages from across the event horizon:  AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Christopher Fletcher\, UC Berkeley \nAbstract: \nIt is difficult to escape the hype of agentic coding.  Is the hype real?  Are we still living in ~Summer 2025 — when AI coding would accomplish little more than upset its human supervisor?  Or has a level shift in technology finally arrived? \nIn this talk I will argue the latter.  I will describe a self-imposed experiment to discover modern AI coding tools’ capabilities (starting mid February 2026).  I will try (my best) to communicate my utter and sheer surprise at where the state of the art actually is.  Then I will do a deep dive and try to relay everything I have learned about this new engineering discipline—based on my attempts to push the technology as hard as I can for the past 1.5 months.  I will conclude by pontificating about the future of computer architecture and academic research more generally. \nBio: \nChristopher Fletcher is an Associate Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley. He is a computer architect whose research spans architecture\, security\, and domain-specific acceleration\, especially at their intersections from cryptography and hardware attacks to algorithm-to-hardware co-design. His work has received 31 paper recognitions and several other honors\, including the NSF CAREER Award\, Intel and Google faculty awards\, UIUC research and promotion awards\, election to DARPA ISAT\, and MIT’s George M. Sprowls Award\, with related work also recognized by Scientific American as one of ten “World Changing Ideas.” \nHosted by: Professor Alvaro Cardenas \nLocation: Engineering 2\, Room E2-180 (Refreshments such as fruit\, pastries\, coffee\, and tea will be provided.) \nZoom Option: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93445911992?pwd=YkJ2TQtF79h0PcNXbEcpZLbpK0coiY.1&jst=3 \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cse-colloquium-messages-from-across-the-event-horizon-ai-agentic-design-for-computer-architecture-and-more-generalizable-learnings/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260401T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T110550
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SUMMARY:VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Sepia is a term used to describe inks of a rich\, brown color\, but few know that this artistic usage is taken from the animal world\, where sepia refers to a genus of cuttlefish—a nod to the long history of extracting melanin fluid from cephalopods for drawing and writing. This talk uses cuttlefish ink as a vehicle for rethinking human-ocean relations in the mid nineteenth century\, tracing flows between Victor Hugo’s maritime drawings made in the Channel Islands to paleontological discoveries and scientific illustrations on nearby coastlines. During the nineteenth century\, the expansion of fisheries and the growth of marine biology fostered public interest in the strangeness of cephalopods\, or “devil fish\,” whose inkiness was associated with artistic creation. Experiments with biotic media\, the talk argues\, were efforts to conceptualize the nonhuman environment of the ocean. \nThis event is presented as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Located in Porter College Rm. D245\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/vmcc-maggie-cao/
LOCATION:Porter College\, D-Building\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Your AI Advantage: Tools\, Skills\, and Career Paths
DESCRIPTION:Transform your workplace with practical AI skills.\nExplore how to lead with AI—whether you want to build it or apply it. In this information session\, discover two dynamic pathways: AI Business Practices\, for professionals seeking practical AI tools to boost productivity without coding\, and AI Engineer\, for those ready to design and deploy production-ready AI systems. Learn how generative AI\, automation\, and intelligent agents are transforming today’s workplace—and how you can be part of that change. \nSpeaker\nJoin Hien Luu\, Program Chair and Head of Machine Learning Infrastructure at Zoox\, for an inside look at how our courses help you build prompt‑engineering know‑how\, ethical AI awareness\, and productivity‑boosting workflows—so you can lead AI‑driven change in your organization. \nLearn more\nThis spring info session is sponsored by the AI Business Practices and Engineering programs. \n\nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/your-ai-advantage-tools-skills-and-career-paths/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Small changes\, Big consequences: Modulators of Alphavirus Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Suchetana (Tuli) Mukhopadhyay\, Professor\, Indiana University \nDescription: N/A \nBio: Suchetana “Tuli” Mukhopadhyay\, Ph.D.\, is a professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University\, Bloomington. She received her B.A. in chemistry from DePauw University and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Following her doctoral studies\, Mukhopadhyay conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, focusing on G-protein mediated signaling. She continued her postdoctoral work at Purdue University in structural virology\, where she developed a strong interest in arboviruses. Mukhopadhyay joined Indiana University in 2005\, where she established her research program on the assembly and spread of alphaviruses. \nHosted by: Professor Rebecca Dubois\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-small-changes-big-consequences-modulators-of-alphavirus-assembly/
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences Building\, 575 McLaughlin Drive
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—"Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami"
DESCRIPTION:The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데\, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Ongoing Exhibition: Thurs..\, April 2–Sat.\, May 2\, 2026\n– Opening Celebration: Thurs.\, April 2\, 5:00–7:00 p.m.\n– Artist Roundtable: Thurs.\, April 23\, 5:00–6:00 p.m.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Gallery hours are Tues.–Sun.noon–5:00 p.m (closed Mondays)\n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.\n—\nABOUT THE EXHIBITION\n– More exhibition information here.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/opening-easp-mfa-2026/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Lectures & Presentations,Social Gathering
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