Name: Wang, S. (CSE) – Learned Hashing and Overlay Networks for AI-native Retrieval and Serving at Scale
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November 2025
November 3 @ 4:00 pm

Statistics Seminar: Topological Clustering: from Multilayer Networks to Climate Resiliency and Beyond

Presenter: Professor Yulia R. Gel, Virginia Tech Description: Multilayer networks continue to gain significant attention in many areas of study, particularly, due to their high utility in modeling interdependent systems such as critical infrastructures, human brain connectome, and socio-environmental ecosystems. However, clustering of multilayer networks, especially, using the information on higher order interactions of the […]
November 3 @ 4:00 pm

AM Seminar: In Search of Stratified Turbulence

Presenter: Colm-cille Patrick Caulfield, Professor, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Description: Statically stable density stratification is ubiquitous in geophysical flows, with the atmosphere, lakes and oceans all typically having an average density distribution that decreases upwards in a gravitational field. Due to the associated stabilising effect of the buoyancy force, it would seem intuitive that such […]
November 4 @ 11:00 am

Stand Out in Your Job Search: Tips from Veeva

Jack Baskin School of Engineering 506 – Engineering 2 (E2) Engineering 2, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, United States

Come join Katie Groth, a University Recruiter at Veeva, as she shares valuable insights on how to make your resume, job applications, and interviews stand out. You’ll also have the chance to ask your own questions and get personalized advice on these topics.
During the session, Katie will also provide insight into the Engineering Development Program, a unique program at Veeva designed to support new grads entering the software engineering space.
November 5

Giving Day

On November 5, 2025, UC Santa Cruz will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Giving Day, our signature 24-hour fundraising event that unites Slugs around the world in support of student success, research, and community programs. Over the past decade, thousands of donors have raised millions to provide scholarships, fuel groundbreaking research, strengthen basic needs programs, and […]
November 5 @ 10:00 am

Top Grad Schools in International Relations

Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room – Bay Tree Conference Center 420 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Georgetown SFS, Columbia SIPA, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Tufts Fletcher will be visiting UCSC! This is a great opportunity for students to hear from all four schools at the same time
November 5 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

CSE Colloquium: Mitigating Data Scarcity via Simulation by Roozbeh Mottaghi

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

Hybrid Event

Presenter: Roozbeh Mottaghi, University of Washington Abstract: Data has revolutionized progress across AI fields like natural language processing and computer vision. Yet, in robotics, data collection remains a significant challenge: […]

Free
November 5 @ 12:00 pm

Honoring Patrick Orozco Luncheon

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Amah-Ka-Tura: “People of the Land” We gather in recognition of Amah-Ka-Tura, a symbol of the enduring legacy and successful efforts of Patrick Orozco and the Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council. Today, we honor Patrick’s unwavering commitment to protecting the sacred lands along Lee Road, a site of deep cultural and spiritual significance. This event marks […]
November 5 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Joint Senate/Admin Forum — Development of Achievement Relative to Opportunity (ARO) Guidelines for UC Santa Cruz Personnel Review

Virtual Event

Zoom Forum
We invite all faculty to provide comments and questions regarding the Academic Senate Task Force on UC Adaptation to Disruptions (UCAD) Charge, and UCAD Interim Report (July, 2025).
UCAD’s purpose was to develop response strategies that aim to uphold the teaching and education, research and discovery, and public service mission areas of the University of California in the context of disruptive federal executive orders, uncertain federal and state partnerships, and evolving shifts in the higher education landscape. The report makes interim recommendations related to four key categories:
Research Funding Assistance
Academic Personnel Evaluations During Disruptions
Program Resizing and Restructuring
Need for Flexibility in Course Offerings and Modalities
November 5 @ 4:30 pm

American Agitators Screening at Cabrillo

Samper Recital Hall @ Cabrillo College 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United States

American Agitators comes to Santa Cruz! We cordially invite you to the screening of American Agitators with a discussion and a Free Dinner! Spaces are limited, so RSVP today! Sponsored by Santa Cruz Local, Cabrillo College, COPA, UCSC Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, UCSC Center for Labor and Community, and UCSC Institute for Social […]

free
November 5 @ 5:30 pm The UC Santa Cruz Kraw Lecture Series

The UC Santa Cruz Kraw Lecture Series presents: Stars to Soil: A Journey from the Big Bang to Planet Earth

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

In this Kraw lecture, Professor Alexie Leauthaud will present the latest results on the nature of our universe, including groundbreaking and prize-winning new results on the nature of dark energy. Leauthaud will discuss our current understanding of the basic ingredients of our Universe and will explain why recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument […]
November 5 @ 7:30 pm

A Joyful Noise—video, music, panel discussion, and fellowship

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

Audiences are invited to listen, share, and express ideas and feelings about individual and collective struggles in this interdisciplinary event featuring music, arts, science, and creative videography.

FREE and open to the public
November 6 @ 11:40 am

BME 280B Seminar: Anne Nakamoto, Alan Zhang, Shelbi Russell

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter 1: Anne Nakamoto, BME PhD Candidate, Corbett-Detig Lab, UC Santa Cruz Talk: Investigating deleterious mutation burden across populations and landscapes in the California Conservation Genomics Project Description: Biodiversity is being […]
November 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Campus to Career: Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez, Community Archivist

Virtual Event

Wondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Come hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. If you are interested in careers in higher education, museums, or archives, this event is for you!
November 6 @ 3:00 pm

Artist Talk for “Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective”

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman.

FREE and open to the public
November 6 @ 3:00 pm

Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador

Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

In 2013 anthropologist Ellen Moodie embedded with indignados—young middle-class protestors demanding that the government live up to its liberal commitments—to better understand the course of political change since the civil […]
November 6 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

59th Faculty Research Lecture Featuring Professor Natalie Batalha

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

Hybrid Event

Professor Batalha’s research reveals the Universe to us, helping us better understand Earth’s origins and the possible future. Her research includes the detection and characterization of exoplanets and the study of exoplanet demographics. With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Professor Batalha has been leading international collaborations of hundreds of scientists to investigate what these exoplanets are composed of and how they formed. These are simply groundbreaking observations, and it is unlikely there will be another moment in the field like this for decades.
November 7 – November 8

United Nations Reboot the Earth Hackathon

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

The United Nations (UN) and the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are collaborating to bring the “Reboot the Earth” hackathon to the West Coast […]
November 7 @ 11:00 am

Hot Cocoa & Advising @ Merrill College

Merrill College Plaza 641 Merrill Road

Come join Merrill Peer Advisors for Hot Cocoa and advising!
Merrill College Plaza
November 7 @ 1:00 pm

Family Weekend 2025

We’re excited to announce Nov. 7-9 as the dates for UCSC’s second annual Family Weekend, bringing families together to experience UC Santa Cruz’s vibrant campus life and community spirit. The […]
November 7 @ 2:00 pm

Wang, S. (CSE) – Learned Hashing and Overlay Networks for AI-native Retrieval and Serving at Scale

Hybrid Event

Modern AI systems demand low-latency high-quality retrieval and serving over billion-scale keys and vectors. This proposal studies learned hashing and overlay networks to co-locate semantically related items and steer queries with minimal coordination. We first present LEAD, to our knowledge the first use of order-preserving learned hash functions in distributed key-value overlays, enabling efficient range […]