• Radical Craft’s Works-in-Progress Exhibition

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for ANTH 196V

    Radical Craft’s
    Works-in-Progress
    Exhibition

    Monday, March 9th, 1:30-3

    Social Sciences 1, 3rd Floor

  • Harrison, D. (CS) – Multi-Level Control in Neural Dialogue Generation: Style, Semantics, and Selection through Over-Generation and Ranking

    End-to-end neural generation models have largely displaced the modular architectures that once gave dialogue system designers explicit control over what is said and how it is said. While these models produce fluent text, they collapse content planning, sentence planning, and surface realization into a single undifferentiated decoding step, sacrificing the controllable structure that earlier systems […]

  • AM Seminar: Solution Discovery in Fluids with High Precision Using Neural Networks

    Presenter: Ching-Yao Lai, Assistant Professor, Stanford University Description: I will discuss examples utilizing neural networks (NNs) to find solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) that facilitate new discoveries. Despite being deemed universal function approximators, neural networks, in practice, struggle to fit functions with sufficient accuracy for rigorous analysis. Here, we developed multi-stage neural networks (Wang […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Evaluating Predictive Algorithms Under Missing Data

    Presenter: Amanda Coston, Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley Description: Performance evaluation plays a central role in decisions about whether and how predictive algorithms should be deployed in high-stakes settings. Yet, in many real-world domains, evaluation is fundamentally difficult: the data available for assessment are often biased, incomplete, or noisy, and the act of deploying […]

  • Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation

    Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Enjoy a cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea, and a breakfast snack with Merrill Provost McGuinness. Stay and chat with him and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua, or take it go. See you outside of the Merrill College office, across from the Merrill Mailroom.

    Free
  • Mashhadi, N. (CSE) – Compositional, Clinically Conditioned, and Confound-Aware Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging

    Virtual Event

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and a leading cause of dementia. Neuroimaging and clinical biomarkers can reveal early disease changes, but building reliable machine learning models is difficult because data come from different scanners and sites, some modalities are missing, labeled cohorts are limited, and factors such as age and scanner/site effects […]

  • A Musical Journey with UCSC Music Ensembles —Percussion, Celtic, Classical Guitar, Horns, Central Asian, Experimental

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Audiences are invited to the free winter quarter chamber concert at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz to hear selections from multiple ensembles, including the following: UCSC Percussion Ensemble William Winant, director UCSC Celtic Chamber Music Ensemble Bill Coulter, director UCSC Classical Guitar Ensemble Christopher Mallet, director William Coulter, steel string guitar […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Nowruz

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join AA/PIRC and the Iranian Student Union on Tuesday, March 10th from 7:30-9:30pm at the Merrill Cultural Center to celebrate Nowruz — the Iranian/Afghan New Year! Come learn about the […]

  • CSE Colloquium: Co-Active AI-Assisted Programming

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

    Presenter: Nadia Polikarpova, UCSD Abstract: AI-assisted programming has rapidly moved from novelty to default. Today, most developers use AI coding tools, and increasingly rely on agentic systems capable of making multi-step […]

    Free
  • Yang, S. (CSE) – Beyond Image Editing: Building Generalized Image Customization Systems

    Virtual Event

    Current generative vision models struggle with image customization that requires multi-step reasoning or real-world knowledge. This proposal introduces generalized image customization, enabling systems to execute complex, inferential modifications rather than just simple edits. The research focuses on the foundational framework required for this generalization, specifically high-quality training data, scalable evaluation benchmarks, self-improving training paradigms that […]

  • Research Lunch & Learn: PI Eligibility and the Exception to Policy (ETP) Process

    Virtual Event

    Join us on March 11, 2026, 12-1 p.m. for a session led by Deirdre Beach, Executive Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects, and others as they discuss and review UCSC’s policy on Principal Investigator (PI) eligibility. This session will highlight which appointments are eligible to request an exception, when PIship is necessary to support […]

  • College Night: Made By Human Hands

    College Nights
    Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall

    Oakes and Rachel Carson Colleges, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present Made By Human Hands. Join us Wednesday, March 11, from 5–8 p.m. at the Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall for […]

  • What’s new in AI?

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

    Chat with the AI chair Lead innovation as a machine learning engineer Want to learn what’s new in AI? Join Praveen Krishna, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Application Development certificate […]

  • Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode II

    Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]