Lectures & Presentations

May 2026

• Tue 19

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am

    ECE Seminar: Multiscale Sensing for Specialty Crop Systems: From Field Monitoring to Food Safety Application

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Paul Pena, D. (CSE) – Efficient Pattern Counting in Sparse Graphs and Hypergraphs

  • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

    Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn

  • 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Bai, G. (BMEB) – Long-read single-molecule chromatin architecture and its role in transcriptome regulation

• Wed 20

  • 8:00 am – 10:00 am

    Virtual Event

    Maram, S. (CM) – Scripture To Console: The Nexus between Religion and Digital Play

  • 9:00 am – 11:00 am

    Hybrid Event

    Lucas, J. (BMEB) – Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity

  • 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

    CSE Colloquium – Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games

    Free
  • 1:20 pm – 2:25 pm

    BME80G Seminar – Ann Mc Cartney, “The Why, What and How of Indigenous Data Sovereignty”

  • 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm

    Virtual Event

    It Takes an Ecosystem: Staff and Faculty Perspectives on Collaboration at UC Santa Cruz

  • 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

    The Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities: Donna Haraway

  • 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

    VMCC Talk with Salar Mameni—Blood of Tulips

    FREE and open to the public
  • 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

    Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities—reception, screening, and discussion with the filmmmaker

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates

• Thu 21

  • 9:00 am – 2:30 pm

    Annual BE Student Project Showcase

  • 11:40 am – 1:15 pm

    BME 280B Seminar: Speaker Dylan Shropshire – “How did Wolbachia become Earth’s most pervasive animal symbiont?”

• Fri 22

  • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    Something held by poetry

• Sat 23

  • 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

    All This Safety is Killing Us w/ Aminah Elster, Jennifer James, and Carlos Martinez

• Sun 24

  • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House

    Free

• Tue 26

  • 7:00 am – 9:00 am

    Virtual Event

    Chou, Y. (CM) – Exploring Future AI-Mediated Health Creator–Audience Interactions on Social Media: Transparency, Care, and Accountability

  • 9:30 am – 11:30 am

    Hybrid Event

    Weber, Z. (ECE) – Sustainable Bioinspired Polymer–Mineral Composites for Adaptable Repair in Conservation Applications

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am

    ECE Seminar: Advanced Sensing and AI Technologies for Food Safety and Precision Agriculture