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    2026 Right Livelihood International Conference

    Hybrid Event

    The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners across continents, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes, the conference positions education as a democratic […]

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    CM Seminar: Edward Wang, “Inventing a New Blood Pressure Monitor”

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

    Presented by: Edward Wang Description: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor, from […]

  • Socio-Ecological Complexity in Coffee Agroecosystems

    Sanya Cowal from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link One of the most pressing global challenges considers how to combine sustainable agricultural land use […]

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    Statistics Seminar: Active Learning for Fair and Stable Allocations

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Postdoc, UCSC Description: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents […]

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    CSE Colloquium – Towards Safe and Resilient Large-scale Distributed Programming

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

    Presenter: Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Abstract: Distributed programming is notoriously difficult. Not only are distributed systems concurrent, they pose additional challenges including data consistency and fault tolerance. […]

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  • AM Seminar: Engineering the Earth’s Climate

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: 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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    CSE Colloquium – The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program

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

    Presenters: Prof. Karl-Erik Arzen (Co-Director of WASP and Lund University), Dr. Paul Townend (WASP Graduate School management and Umeå University), and Carl Magnus Bruhner (Linkoping University) Abstract: The Wallenberg AI, […]

    Free
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    BME 280B Seminar: 4th Year Grad Talks

    Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

    Please join us for our BME 280B seminar series Thursday (5/7/26) in person at Biomed 200. The event will run from 11:40 AM to 1:15 PM and feature our 4th […]

  • International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin America

    Engineering Building 2, E2-180

    Please 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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    BME80G Seminar – Aubrey Streit Krug, “Living Roots: Perennial Grain Agriculture and Ethics of Care & Repair”

    Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Aubrey Streit Krug; Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute   About the speaker: Aubrey Streit Krug is a writer and researcher who investigates relationships among humans, plants, and places. She is the Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute. She leads a team devoted to collaboratively advancing social […]

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    ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker Asir Intisar Khan – Engineering Heterogeneous Interfaces for Energy Efficient Electronics

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

    Presenter: Asir Intisar Khan, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of California, Berkeley Description: With the rise in global data demands, energy efficiency in electronics is becoming increasingly important for sustainable progress in AI, healthcare, IoT, and beyond. Emerging technologies, such as neuro-inspired computing and the 3D integration of logic and […]

  • Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods

    Liz Carlisle from UC Santa Barbara In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the center of our farms and our plates, to add flavor and nutrients to our diets while reducing emissions and making our food system more resilient to climate change and economic uncertainty. […]

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    Seminar Series | Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods with Liz Carlisle

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host: Dani Klawitter Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the center of our farms and our plates, to add flavor and nutrients to our diets while reducing emissions and making our food system more resilient to climate change and economic uncertainty. With contributions from James Beard Award-winning chefs, Macarthur genius grant-winning […]

  • AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: 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 chemistry, integral equations, model reduction, and model compression in machine learning. This talk surveys recent advances that clarify how structural properties of a matrix influence […]