• Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Book Talk with Lily Hsueh

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    With climate risks growing, climate action facing political headwinds in many countries, and international cooperation increasingly challenged, Lily Hsueh’s Corporations at Climate Crossroads illuminates how and under what conditions the world’s largest corporations have taken proactive action on climate change during the years leading up to and after the Paris Agreement. Drawing on insights from […]

  • CSE Colloquium – Flux: Refinement Types for Verified Rust Systems

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

    Presenter: Ranjit Jhala, UCSD Abstract: Rust has risen as a language of choice for new systems code — from OS kernels to hypervisors, firmware and run-times — as it is memory safe and provides the sort of abstractions needed for efficient low-level systems implementation. We present Flux, a refinement type checker for Rust that shows how […]

    Free
  • Info Session: Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands

    Learn more at our upcoming Information Session: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 at 12:00-1:00 pm via Zoom. Zoom link is listed here. Earn 10 units on a summer program on the Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands in Amsterdam this summer. This program is taught by Nada Miljkovic, Entrepreneurship Instructor and Program Manager for UCSC’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurial Development.  […]

  • Field School Workshop: Why and how to get your first fieldwork exposure

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    This workshop is designed for students considering field school in archaeology, biological anthropology, paleoanthropology or primatology. Faculty and student resource persons will speak to topics such as what field school is like, assessing alignment with student goals, picking the right school, and how to apply. Refreshments (pizza) will be served.

  • Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing

    Humanities 1 Building 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Are you curious about your career options as a humanities student? Wondering how the professionals around you got to where they are? Join this interactive workshop to learn about informational interviewing*, a way you can use your curiosity to explore career possibilities and make meaningful professional connections. You’ll leave ready to reach out, learn from […]

  • Open House: Oakes Collaborations

    Explore Our New Collaborative Spaces in Oakes College! We’re excited to welcome you to the newly expanded spaces in the Oakes Academic Building, now home to a vibrant community of Social Sciences research centers and programs. Connect with colleagues from the Institute for Social Transformation, the Center for Labor and Community, the Right Livelihood Center, […]

    Free
  • Jorquera, Z. (CSE) – Quantum Entanglement Bounds and the Approximation Algorithms That Use Them

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

    One of the central challenges in quantum computing is finding or approximating the ground-state energy of a local Hamiltonian, a quantum analogue of classical constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). Among these, the Quantum Max-Cut problem serves as a canonical example, paralleling the classical Max-Cut problem. Despite its foundational importance in both theoretical computer science and condensed […]

  • Small Steps, Big Impact: Starting Your Fitness Journey Workshop

    Faculty & Staff Health and Well-being Program
    This beginner-friendly session will break down the fundamentals of fitness, including goal setting, different types of exercise, and how to build a routine that fits movement into your life.

  • Job search strategies in a competitive market

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

    Join Dean PK Agarwal for this free, in-person and online event as he provides actionable tips on navigating today’s dynamic job market — from leveraging LinkedIn and digital portfolios to […]

  • Ellen Bass: Morton Marcus Poetry Reading

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for the 15th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Ellen Bass. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of […]

  • Indigethanx 2025: Honoring the Elders Dinner

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

    Indigethanx is an American Indian Resource Center annual event, and our alternative to Thanksgiving dinner. We host dinner with traditional Native foods, and invite guest speakers. This year we are […]

  • Ramollari, H. (ECE) – An Optofluidic Spectrometer and Applications in Biosensing

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

    Miniaturized spectrometers have the potential to replace bulky and expensive benchtop models. We have previously demonstrated a multimode interference (MMI) waveguide-based spectrometer that achieves high performance while minimizing its footprint. […]

  • Fall Academic Senate Meeting

    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Agenda and information coming soon.

Last modified: Oct 15, 2025