Name: Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Start: 2026-05-20T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-20T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Institute of the Arts and Sciences

May 2026
ECE Seminar: From Plumes to Produce: Leveraging Atmospheric Modeling and Smart Sensing for Food Safety

May 18 @ 10:00 am

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

Presenter: Derek Hollenbeck, postdoctoral research scholar, University of California, Merced Description: Advances in drone-based environmental sensing, atmospheric modeling, and intelligent monitoring systems are creating new opportunities for addressing emerging challenges in food safety and agricultural resilience. This talk explores how methodologies originally developed for methane emission detection and quantification could be translated toward agricultural and […]
ECE 290 Seminar: AI for Enhancing Power Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events

May 18 @ 10:40 am

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

Presenter: Masood Parvania, Roger P. Webb Endowed Professor, University of Utah Description: Many communities across the world are experiencing more frequent and severe extreme weather disturbances such as wildfires, heatwaves, drought, storms, rising sea levels, and flooding, which not only pose threats to human health, and the environment but also affect the ability of […]
Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

May 18 @ 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
The Sensory Arcade: Food as Language

May 18 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

Are you looking for a unique way to connect with your peers and experience art and food together? Our team is thrilled to invite you to a special, immersive event hosted by your fellow international graduate students: The Sensory Arcade: Food as Language. When & Where: Date: Monday, May 18 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Location: Graduate Student […]
Seminar Series | Is the Farm a Digital Factory?: Labor, Leafy Greens, and the Limits of Automation with Summer Sullivan

May 18 @ 1:25 pm

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

Host:Madeleine Fairbairn Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers are increasingly interested in agriculture as a site to disrupt and improve upon with their technologies. The nearby Salinas Valley – known as the Salad Bowl of the World – might be considered a “ground zero” for these operations of technological introduction, with some calling it the […]
Let’s Talk

May 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Virtual Event

Need to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 870 […]
Statistics Seminar: Unifying Regression-Based and Design-Based Causal Inference in Time-Series Experiments and Crossover Experiments

May 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Peng Ding, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Description: I will present some recent results on unifying regression-based and design-based causal inference in time-series experiments and crossover experiments. Part I: Time-series […]
AM Seminar: Dissecting Complex Disease Mechanisms with Causal Inference and Deep Learning

May 18 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Dr. David A. Knowles, New York Genome Center & Columbia University Description: Many human diseases have a substantial genetic component, which association studies are increasingly capable of characterizing, empowered […]
ECE Seminar: Multiscale Sensing for Specialty Crop Systems: From Field Monitoring to Food Safety Application

May 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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

Presenter: Eve Laroche-Pinel, Postdoctoral Researcher, California State University, Fresno Description: Advances in remote sensing, drone platforms, and data analytics are enhancing the ability to monitor agricultural systems at fine spatial […]
Paul Pena, D. (CSE) – Efficient Pattern Counting in Sparse Graphs and Hypergraphs

May 19 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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

Hybrid Event

Pattern counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many domains. For a fixed small pattern H, we are given a large graph G and we are […]
Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn

May 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Privacy’s Defender Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today’s Internet Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital […]
Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

May 19 @ 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
Let’s Talk

May 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Virtual Event

Need to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 831 […]
Bai, G. (BMEB) – Long-read single-molecule chromatin architecture and its role in transcriptome regulation

May 19 @ 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

Hybrid Event

Sequencing technologies have revolutionized our understanding of biology, yet many existing methods require fragmentation of DNA or RNA, fundamentally limiting our ability to study these molecules in their native, intact […]
The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life

May 19 @ 6:00 pm

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

Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History […]
Maram, S. (CM) – Scripture To Console: The Nexus between Religion and Digital Play

May 20 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am

Virtual Event

Religion has historically been a profound force for global mobilization, shaping geopolitics, economies, and geography. Similarly, contemporary interactive media, with video games at the forefront, has moved beyond mere entertainment […]
Lucas, J. (BMEB) – Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity

May 20 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am

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

Hybrid Event

Centromeric DNA is critical for accurate chromosome segregation and genome stability, but due to its repetitive nature, it was only recently fully included in a human reference. Rapid evolution and […]
Mental Health First Aid Certification

May 20 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Mental Health First Aid Certification

Location: Register for the Zoom link Be prepared to support those around you by getting certified in Mental Health First Aid. Mental Health First Aid teaches the skills needed to […]
CSE Colloquium – Safety Alignment of LMs via Non-cooperative Games

May 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

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

Presenter: Arman Zharmagambetov, Meta Abstract: Ensuring the safety of language models (LMs) while maintaining their usefulness remains a critical challenge in AI alignment. Current approaches rely on sequential adversarial training: […]

Free
Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

May 20 @ 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 […]

May 2026