Beautiful Universe – An astrophotography exhibit
Beautiful Universe is a pop-up exhibit in collaboration with the UC Santa Cruz Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics that will be on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art […]
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Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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Let’s Talk
Virtual EventNeed to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 635 182 8273 Passcode: 231831 Facilitator: Mitchell Rees, PhD (831) 459-2628 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent […]
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Zhou, K. (CSE) – Toward Safer Frontier AI: From Evaluation and Red-Teaming to Alignment and Oversight
Virtual EventThis dissertation investigates how to make modern AI systems safer as they grow more capable. It addresses two central sources of risk: malicious misuse, in which adversarial users coerce models into harmful behavior, and internal misalignment, in which models themselves pursue goals that diverge from human intent through deception, sandbagging, or other covert behaviors. The […]
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Grad Cap Decorating with the ERCs
Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CACalling all graduating seniors! ✨🎓 Get creative and celebrate your achievements at our Grad Cap Decorating event hosted by El Centro, AA/PIRC, and AARCC! 💙 Supplies, pizza, and cake will […]
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Qureshi, A. (ECE) – ISoC: A Universal Impedance Spectroscopy Instrument-on-Chip in SKY130 130 nm CMOS
Virtual EventElectrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is the workhorse measurement behind lithium-ion battery diagnostics, biosensing, and corrosion science — yet no integrated circuit has ever delivered the complete capability of a benchtop analyzer on a single die. This dissertation presents ISoC, the first universal Impedance Spectroscopy instrument-on-chip. Designed in SkyWater 130 nm CMOS process, ISoC supports all […]
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Insurance, Risk, and Resilience in a Changing World
Virtual EventClimate change is reshaping every system it touches. This panel examines one that most people haven’t much considered in climate terms: insurance. When the industry built to share risk retreats […]
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Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesVisit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]
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Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThis exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works […]
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Productive Struggle & Study Skills
Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAIn this workshop, you will: Learn study strategies and why making it hard for yourself supports durable learning. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you […]
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BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Katherine Bonini, Senior Genetic Counselor @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Description: It has long been argued that families are central to genomic medicine. Genomic risk, diagnosis, and management are rarely confined to a single individual, and separating patients’ interests from those of their relatives is often neither straightforward nor desirable. Despite this, […]
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Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventThis dissertation investigates how neuromorphic and brain-inspired principles can guide the design of efficient neural language architectures. It addresses two central limitations of modern Transformer-based language models: memory growth with context length and high computational cost from dense matrix multiplication. Through studies of spiking neural networks, linear-recurrent language models, hybrid attention architectures, MatMul-free models, and […]
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Stanley Flatté Memorial Lecture: Chaos, black holes, and quantum mechanics
The 418 Project 155 River St S, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCHAOS, BLACK HOLES, AND QUANTUM MECHANICS The world is a chaotic place. Even if we know the rules of nature, we often find it difficult to predict the future – […]
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Making an Exoneree Showcase
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to Making an Exoneree, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about […]
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Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez
Experimental Theater Theater Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CABlending Euripides’ classic Medea with Mexican folklore, Luis Alfaro examines the tragedy behind America’s immigration system and the destiny of one family caught in its grip.
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UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAA rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]
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SOAR— Los Mejicas Grupo Folklórico
Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CACome enjoy Los Mejicas’ 54th Anniversary Spring Show: Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos, Con Amor a Mi Mexico on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30 at the UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage. — ADMISSION – Doors open at 7:00 p.m., and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. – Please note that seating is not […]
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Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CACome enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the […]
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Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CAYounger Lagoon Reserve tours are free and open to the public. Space is limited to 18 participants. Call 831-459-3800 or sign-up online. Virtual tours are available online.
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Rooted in Identity — Mixed Identity Retreat
Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center on Saturday 5/30 from 10:30am-1:30pm at the Ethnic Resource Centers (located at the Crown Provost House) to explore the unique experiences of those with mixed racial and cultural identities within […]
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Herbs and Tending the Inner Garden
UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThe way to care for humans and gardens have lots of similarities. We will explore the realm of self care, health maintenance and disharmony management through the lens of herbal medicine and metaphors of organic garden management. This class will be an herb walk where we will visit common garden plants, “weeds” and medicinal plants […]