Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World
Wednesday, April 15, 5:00-7 p.m. Stockwell Cellars 1100 Fair Avenue, Santa Cruz Space is limited. Please let us know if you are able to attend via this registration link. “Drink and make […]
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Stockwell Cellars 1100 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz, CA
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Kraw Lecture: At the Forefront of AI: Innovation and Discovery
The Quad Conference Center 2400 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA, United StatesArtificial intelligence is transforming how we understand and solve the world’s most complex challenges—while at the same time causing new challenges and concerns. We invite you to join us for […]
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Astrophysics: The Largest Unknowns and the Biggest Challenges
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, United StatesUCSC Professor Alexie Leauthaud will discuss her groundbreaking work understanding the past and future of our universe. In this exciting public lecture, Professor Alexie Leauthaud will discuss some of the […]
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Mirchandani, C. (BMEB) – Population and Evolutionary Genomics Across Ecological Scales
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventSequencing technologies have transformed population and evolutionary genetics, making it possible to ask questions at scales that were intractable a decade ago. Realizing that potential depends on tailored computational approaches, […]
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Find Your Path! 2026
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAFind Your Path
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Find Your Path! 2026
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAFind Your Path
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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 a presentation titled, Are We Alone? Thirty Years of Exoplanet Discovery
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AM Seminar: Variational Inference and Density Estimation with Non-Negative Tensor Train
Jack Baskin Engineering Building, 372Presenter: Dr. Xun Tang, Stanford University Description: This talk covers an efficient numerical approach for compressing a high-dimensional discrete distribution function into a non-negative tensor train (NTT) format. The two settings we consider are variational inference and density estimation, whereby one has access to either the unnormalized analytic formula of the distribution or the samples […]
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Statistics Seminar: Hierarchical Clustering with Confidence
Jack Baskin Engineering Building, 156Presenter: Snigdha Panigrahi, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan Description:Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is one of the most widely used approaches for exploring how observations in a dataset relate to each other. However, its greedy nature makes it highly sensitive to small perturbations in the data, often producing different clustering results and making it […]
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The Tallest Dwarf—film screening and talk with Julie Wyman
Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAUC Santa Cruz affiliates are invited to a screening and discussion with filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman. The Tallest Dwarf charts the filmmaker’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities […]
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Field Trip to ALBA
MJ Organic Farms 1700 Old Stage Rd, Salinas, CaliforniaJoin us for an opportunity to visit the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) in Salinas! ALBA is a non-profit whose mission is to create economic opportunity for aspiring organic farmers and ag professionals — many of whom are local field workers and first-generation college students — through land-based education in the heart of the Salinas Valley. […]
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Campus to Career: Job Talk with Communications Manager David Coy
Virtual EventAre you curious about the communications field, but not quite sure what it entails? Join our job talk with UCSC alumnus David Coy, a mission-driven communications professional. David will tell us about his journey into communications work and how he discovered his passion for helping impactful organizations craft compelling content. If you’re interested in careers in communications, development, marketing, or social impact, this event is for you!
All students are welcome. The interview will last approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 15-minute Q&A.
We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at mpelrine@ucsc.edu as soon as possible.
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A Sacred Place: Film Screening and Conversation with Dr. Dolly Kikon
Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAPlease join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography, oral tradition, and geological features of Makhel to center […]
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Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAOn Earth Day, UC Santa Cruz launches the inaugural Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance, a campus-wide gathering that refuses to treat climate change as a problem of carbon alone. […]
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CSE Colloquium – Robust Machine Learning for Biomedical Data: Efficiency, Reliability, and Generalizability
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter Chenyu You, Stony Brook University Abstract In the rapidly growing area of machine learning, there is profound promise in crafting intelligent, data-driven methods for diverse real-world applications. Yet, in safety-critical domains like healthcare, some fundamental challenges remain: (1) The insufficiency of raw biomedical data emphasizes the need for data-efficient and robust learning approaches. (2) […]
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Policing Belonging: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement
FeaturedHay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Legal Studies Program presents: Policing Belonging: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement. This year, we will be hosting Professor Amada Armenta, UCLA Director of Latino Policy and Politics Institute. In this talk, Amada Armenta traces the policy and practice of immigration enforcement in the United States. Drawing on years of qualitative research with police officers, bureaucrats, and […]
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Women of Color Environmentalists panel 2026
Cultural Center – Merrill College 641 Merrill Rd, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin the UCSC People of Color Sustainability Collective for a panel that celebrates the efforts, voices, and visions of women of color environmentalists. These panelists have worked in various fields, […]
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Climate Tech & Sustainability Showcase
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAJoin us for a Climate Tech & Sustainability Showcase, where students, faculty, climate and sustainability-focused companies, founders, and community organizations come together to share their work and ideas. The event is part of Baskin Engineering Climate Week, focused on raising awareness of climate issues and sustainability research and teaching. Explore a range of interactive demos, […]
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Pawl, E. (STAT) – Flexible and Scalable Mixtures of Experts for Oceanographic Flow Cytometry Data
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventFlow cytometry is a valuable technique in microbial research used to measure the optical properties of single-celled organisms at high throughput. Oceanographers often deploy flow cytometers on research cruises in order to study the characteristics of phytosynthetic microbes—called phytoplankton—in regions and times with diverse environmental conditions. Because cytometers cannot distinguish between subpopulations, researchers typically cluster […]
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Artist Roundtable for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe 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. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]