Name: Condon, C. (BMEB) – Genomic conflict across scales
Start: 2026-08-17T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-17T15:00:00-07:00
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building

August 2026
Working Hard Isn’t Enough: The Unspoken Rules That Shape Your Career

August 13 @ 12:00 pm

Working Hard Isn’t Enough: The Unspoken Rules That Shape Your Career With Ricky Koo Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026 | Noon PT Virtual via Zoom Hosted by UCLA Alumni Association, open to all UC alumni As a first-generation immigrant, career coach Ricky Koo was taught to work hard, stay humble, and let results speak. Sound familiar? Here’s the thing: You can be great at your job and still be misunderstood, overlooked or underestimated. In this webinar, Ricky Koo — a first-generation immigrant who rose through the ranks to become a corporate executive before building his own professional coaching business — breaks down what actually shapes […]

Free
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

August 13 @ 12:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

Visit 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 first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words, But Melodies, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art. The IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. Libia […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

August 13 @ 12:00 pm Visualizing Abolition

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program assembles a series of films, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the […]
Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

August 13 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

This 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 […]

Free
Return to the Redwoods 2026

August 14 – August 16

John R. Lewis College College Ten Road, Santa Cruz, CA +1 more

Get ready to Return to the Redwoods! Reconnect with friends, family, and fellow alumni as you explore the beauty of UC Santa Cruz. From the kick-off party and Stars & […]
ReView

August 14 – September 20 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Krishnaswamy, L. (CSE) – Network Load Balancing for Geographically Distributed Datacenters

August 14 @ 8:30 am – 10:30 am

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

Hybrid Event

As datacenters scale up and become more geographically distributed, wide-area network inter-datacenter traffic, which typically consists of data-heavy tasks, has become increasingly prevalent. Some of the noteworthy challenges raised by […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

August 14 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

Visit 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 […]
Aliamooei Lakeh, S. (ECE) – Optimization and Decision-Support Frameworks for Resilient Power Systems Under Large-Scale Electrification

August 14 @ 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm

Virtual Event

The rapid electrification of transportation is creating new interdependencies between power and transportation systems, particularly during extreme events and disasters. As electric vehicle (EV) adoption increases, evacuation-related charging demand, infrastructure […]
ReView

August 15 – September 21 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
UCSC Farm U-Pick

August 15 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm UCSC Farm U-Pick

UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or flowers at the campus farm! When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm, July 11–August 22, or while supplies […]
Seymour Center’s Art in the Aquarium

August 15 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am Seymour Center’s Art in the Aquarium

Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

Dive into your creative side and make a splash with us! 🎨🌊 Bring the whole family and unleash your inner artist while surrounded by fascinating ocean life. Whether you’re a […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

August 15 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

Visit 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 […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

August 15 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]
ReView

August 16 – September 22 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

August 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

Visit 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 […]
Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

August 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]
ReView

August 17 – September 23 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Nikolakakis, M. (ECE) – Learned Gridless Representations of Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scans

August 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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

Hybrid Event

Medical image representation has long been dominated by voxel-grid matrices. While their inherent structure and order work efficiently for various linear transformations and provide a seamless visualization method on monitors, […]
Condon, C. (BMEB) – Genomic conflict across scales

August 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

Genomes are often viewed as cooperative systems in which genes work together to support organismal function. Yet genetic elements can also act in ways that favor their own transmission or […]

August 2026