• AM Seminar: Denoising: A Powerful Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: 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 dawn of modern scientific inquiry. Recent denoising techniques, particularly in imaging, have achieved remarkable success, nearing theoretical limits by some measures. Yet, despite tens of […]

  • Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The first Tuesday of each month, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. See dates and times UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is open. NOTE: Due to limited parking at the Arboretum and the popularity of Community Day, we greatly encourage visitors to carpool, bike, walk or use public transportation as much […]

  • Women’s Basketball Fundraiser at Woodstock’s

    Woodstock’s Pizza 710 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA

    Support 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 […]

  • Gingerbread House Decorating

    Chat with Merrill Provost Aims McGuinness and friends while decorating a gingerbread house.

    Create the house of your sweet dreams using the provided materials – perhaps you’ll win a small prize.

  • UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan Informational Webinar

    Please join us to learn more about the UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP).  The Campus Planning Department is hosting an upcoming informational webinar about the proposed Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for the Main Residential Campus, Westside Research Park and the Coastal Science Campus on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. The informational webinar will provide information to the campus […]

    Free
  • Megha Majumdar – A Guardian and a Thief

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief, a piercing and propulsive tour de force, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and […]

  • NLP MS Virtual Information Session

    Virtual Event

    Interested in a career in generative AI? Join us Dec. 2 from 7 – 8 PM for our Virtual Information Session. Learn more about our program, based at the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus, where you can earn your NLP MS in as little as 15 months. We offer: Application fee waivers for UCSC students and […]

  • Free Coffee, Tea, & More with Merrill Provost Aims McGuinness

    Grab a free cup of locally owned coffee and chat with Provost Aims at Coffee with the Provost! 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.

  • When Less is More: Applications of Type-Based Underapproximate Reasoning

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

    Presenter: Suresh Jagganathan, Purdue University Abstract: Unlike program verifiers, symbolic execution and property-based testing tools underapproximate program behavior: they aim to report only real bugs (no false positives), at the cost of potentially missing some (false negatives). Recent work has sought to place such tools on a more formal footing, primarily through the development of incorrectness […]

    Free
  • College Nights

    College Night: One Planet, One Home

    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    College Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “One Planet, One Home” a conservation college night during International Education Week. Join us Wednesday, December 3 from 5–8 p.m. at the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. There will […]

  • College Nights

    College Night: Pop Music Around the World – KPop Demon Hunters

    Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall

    Oakes and Rachel Carson Colleges, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present Pop Music Around the World – KPop Demon Hunters. Join us Wednesday, December 3, from 5–8 p.m. at the Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall for a night of pop music, fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all […]

  • Friends of Juristac UCSC Chapter Meeting

    College 9 /John R. Lewis Community Room College Ten Road, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join the UCSC chapter of Friends of Juristac at our next meeting on Wednesday, December 3, 5:30–6:30 p.m. at the College Nine/John R. Lewis Community Room. Stand with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band in saying NO to sand and gravel mining at Juristac. At this meeting we’ll be learning how to table to gather support for […]

    Free
  • Learn about the Educational Therapy Certificate Program

    Virtual Event

    Transform learning. Join Educational Therapy certificate program chair Sharmila Roy for a thoughtful program overview and hear how the uniquely designed curriculum empowers educators and professionals to make a lasting impact– in the classroom and beyond. As one of the few AET-approved programs, you’ll learn to assess learning challenges and apply effective, research-based interventions. Empower […]

  • BME 280B Seminar: Gali Bai & David Haussler

    Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter 1: Gali Bai, BME/PBSE Doctoral Candidate, Brooks Lab, UC Santa Cruz Title 1: Dissecting the contribution of chromatin accessibility to RNA transcription and processing with long-read sequencing Description: Although all cells in an organism share the same genomic sequence, transcriptional programs vary dramatically across cell types. This diversity is governed by epigenetic regulation involving […]

  • Pemulai ke Nanga Jela/Return to Nanga Jela

    Humanities 1 Building 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    About the Talk: The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other […]

    Free
  • Week 10 Wellness: Healing Support for Finals Stress

    Mary Holmes Fireside Lounge 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a moment of pause and restoration as you prepare for finals Hosted by the Division of Student Affairs and Success in collaboration with On the Margins Free snacks and comfort food Make your own self care kit Astrological readings Group Reiki Massage ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You Belong Here: The programs and services described here […]

  • GradWiC Womxn’s Lunch

    GradWiC Womxn’s Lunch

    E2 Lanai

    Join Graduate Womxn in Computing (GradWiC) for our final Womxn’s Luncheon of the quarter. We will be on the E2 Lanai patio weather allowing, or E2-599 in the case of inclement weather.

  • Future careers: What will work look like in 2030?

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

    Join Dean PK Agarwal for this free online session. He’ll lead a forward-looking conversation on emerging job roles in tech, sustainability, health, and creative industries. Learn how industry convergence and global trends are shaping new career paths and the skills you’ll need to stay relevant. Discover which industries are driving job creation and how roles […]

Last modified: Dec 11, 2025