Week of Events
March is Hummingbird Month at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden
Celebrate the wild acrobats of hummingbirds during their courtship & territorial displays in the gardens! Visit our website for special event updates throughout March! arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/events
Monday, March 30, 2026
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March 30, 2026AM Seminar: Flexible Filaments and Swimming Cups: Just Go with the Flow
AM Seminar: Flexible Filaments and Swimming Cups: Just Go with the Flow
Presenter: Lisa Fauci, Professor, Tulane University Description: 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 […]
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
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March 31, 2026A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
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 […]
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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April 1, 2026FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell
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April 1, 2026CSE Colloquium – Messages from across the event horizon: AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)
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April 1, 2026VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
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April 1, 2026Your AI Advantage: Tools, Skills, and Career Paths
FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Randi Solhjell
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. Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.
CSE Colloquium – Messages from across the event horizon: AI Agentic Design for Computer Architecture (and more generalizable learnings)
Presenter: Christopher Fletcher, UC Berkeley Abstract: It 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? In this talk I will argue the latter. I will […]
VMCC Talk with Maggie Cao—Sepia: Biotic Media and Ocean Worlds
Maggie Cao lecture
Your AI Advantage: Tools, Skills, and Career Paths
Transform your workplace with practical AI skills. Explore 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 […]
Thursday, April 2, 2026
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April 2, 2026Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
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April 2, 2026The toughest challenges in advanced IC development
Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
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. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]
The toughest challenges in advanced IC development
Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors The modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. In this live-online discussion with Jignesh Shah, principal STA & CAD engineer and UCSC Extension instructor, we’ll explore how Timing Closure in Silicon IC Design prepares engineers […]
Friday, April 3, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
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April 4, 2026First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]
Sunday, April 5, 2026
No events on this day.