Lectures & Presentations

May 2026

• Wed 20

  • 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

  • 10:00 am – 11:00 am

    Hybrid Event

    Harsh, B. (CSE) – SUPERSCALAR, MULTIPLE TAKEN BRANCH PREDICTOR

  • 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Castro, S. (CSE) – Agentic AI for Security: Adversarial Foundations for Autonomous Cyber Operations

  • 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

    Virtual Event

    Liu, P. (CM) – Reimagining Workplace Concern Reporting: From Emotional Harm to Co-Designed Futures

• Wed 27

  • 9:00 am – 11:00 am

    Virtual Event

    Baskaran, D. (CM) – More than Just Fun: Exploring Meaningful Play, Communities of Play, and Relatedness of Play

  • 9:00 am – 11:00 am

    Virtual Event

    Tu, H. (CSE) – From Evaluation to Adaptation: Building Reliable Multimodal Intelligence

  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

    FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Lisa Uttal

  • 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

    CSE Colloquium – Learning to Image: Computational Microscopy for Dynamic Systems

    Free
  • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

    Film Screening—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series

    FREE and open to the public
  • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

    Virtual Event

    Zheng, Y. (CSE) – Extending eBPF Beyond Kernel Extensions: Verified Interfaces for Runtime System Extensibility

  • 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm

    Panel Discussion—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series

    FREE and open to the public