Events
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Campus Clean-Up Day 2025
Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CAPlease join us for a student-run Sustainability Office Campus CleanUp! Our meet-up spot will be in front of the Porter Squiggle! We’ll be picking up litter, beautifying our campus, and […]
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The SpongeBob Musical
The SpongeBob Musical follows SpongeBob and his friends as they race to save Bikini Bottom from an erupting volcano.
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Barnstorm Presents—1972: The Future of Sex
Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CADevised by The Wardrobe Ensemble, 1972: The Future of Sex incorporates the company’s trademark theatricality, irreverent humour and ensemble ingenuity to tell the story of three couples having sex for the first time—and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
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Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures
Hybrid EventMost optimization problems face the challenge of computing an optimum solution requiring superpolynomial time. In particular, they are classified as NP-hard problems that have no polynomial-time algorithm to date. Instead, […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: Fundamental Nanopower Analog Circuits
Presenter: Joey Sankman, Analog/Power Designer, Analog Devices Description: With the rising interest in edge computing, and the addition of AI/ML functionality, nanopower circuits are in great demand to reduce the […]
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Boundaries & Communication: International Grad Student Circle
Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CABoundaries & Communication: International Grad Student Circle Date: Monday, November 24 Time: 1–3 p.m. Location: Graduate Student Commons (above Cafe Iveta in Quarry Plaza) Description: Join CARE, International Student Services & […]
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AM Seminar: Linear Stochastic Emulators of the Ocean Circulation based on Balanced Truncation: A Caution, perhaps, for Machine Learning?
Presenter: Professor Andy Moore, UCSC Ocean Sciences Description: Linear inverse models have enjoyed considerable popularity in the geosciences, particularly in the arena of climate research and climate prediction, for several […]
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Crown/Merrill Peer Advising: Drop-in Zoom
Virtual EventQuestions about Winter enrollment? Drop into the Peer Advisors’ Zoom to get some Minty Cool advise!
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Faculty Community Network – Indigenous
Each group is open to any interested faculty (including Senate faculty, lecturers, and other faculty titles), with a goal of engaging faculty across ranks and disciplines, to improve faculty retention and success. Groups meet roughly once per month and meetings vary between in-person, remote, and hybrid. Lunch is provided to groups meeting in person.
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Yoga as Healing Series
Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CAYoga as Healing is a 7-week program at UC Santa Cruz for students who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Participants are welcome to join any of the sessions, and attendance at the orientation is not required.
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UCSC Orchestra
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Orchestra
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November Coffee With Merrill College Provost Aims McGuinness
Grab a free cup of locally owned coffee and chat with Merrill College Provost Aims! Most Wednesdays through the quarter from 9–11 a.m.
Meet us for coffee, tea, breakfast snacks and good conversation outside the Merrill College Office, across from the mailroom.
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Harvest Meal
College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining HallStaying on campus for fall break? Join us for the annual Harvest Meal! Brought to you by Dining Services and the Dean of Students Office. Thursday, November 27 1–4 p.m. […]
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Rainbowsgiving
The Cantu Queer Center is excited to host our 4th annual Rainbowsgiving, a community meal for folks who would like an alternative and inclusive gathering for Thanksgiving / 4th Thursday in November. Our hope is to provide a space for folks to connect with others in an affirming, celebratory gathering in which they can be who […]
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Dried Wreath Workshop
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLearn how to create beautiful, long-lasting dried flower holiday wreaths with instructor Beth Benjamin. She will demonstrate the mechanics of putting everything together and will have a couple examples to […]
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Info Session: Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands
Learn more at our upcoming Information Session: Monday, December 1, 2025 at 11:00 am-12:00 pm via Zoom. Register Here Earn 10 units on a summer program on the Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in […]
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Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThe photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]
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AM Seminar: Denoising: A Powerful Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning
Virtual EventPresenter: Peyman Milanfar, Distinguished Scientist, Google Description: Denoising, the process of reducing random fluctuations in a signal to emphasize essential patterns, has been a fundamental problem of interest since the […]
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Women’s Basketball Fundraiser at Woodstock’s
Woodstock’s Pizza 710 Front St, Santa Cruz, CASupport UCSC Women’s Basketball! Join us at Woodstock’s Pizza on Dec. 2 from noon – 9 p.m. for a delicious way to give back! How to participate: Just mention the Women’s Basketball fundraiser when ordering in person or use code UCSCWBALL for online orders. Why it matters: 20% of all proceeds from your purchase will […]