Harvest Meal
2025-11-27 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall
Staying 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.
College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall
Registration required by Monday, November 24.
REGISTER HERE
All students, faculty, staff, and their guests are invited to attend.
This meal is dine-in only; to-go meals will not be available.
Celebratory menu includes vegan and gluten-free options.
Assistance available for students in need and without a meal plan.
For accommodations, email basicneeds@ucsc.edu
The following payment options are accepted at the Harvest Meal:

Unlimited Meal Plans
Slug Points or Banana Bucks ($13.65)
Flexi Dollars ($14)
Credit Card ($15.60)
Children under 3 are free with paid adult
NO CASH will be accepted
Students without a meal plan can indicate they would like assistance to attend the event on the registration form

Rainbowsgiving
2025-11-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Cantu Queer Center, Crown Lane, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
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 they are proudly. We are mindful that traveling can be pricey and that one’s home community is not always safe. We want to provide a space that is welcoming and accessible and for you!
To help us ensure we have enough food and to meet any dietary needs, please RSVP in advance. Friends, roommates, family, partners, and other loved ones welcome!

Operation Unplug! Pledge to Leave Campus Sustainability this Winter Break
2025-11-28 00:00 - 2025-12-27 23:59, 2025-11-29 00:00 - 2025-12-28 23:59, 2025-11-30 00:00 - 2025-12-29 23:59, 2025-12-01 00:00 - 2025-12-30 23:59, 2025-12-02 00:00 - 2025-12-31 23:59, 2025-12-03 00:00 - 2026-01-01 23:59, 2025-12-04 00:00 - 2026-01-02 23:59
UCSC Energy Management and the Sustainability Office are leading the first annual “Operation Unplug” campaign to conserve energy (and reduce greenhouse gas emissions) during winter break. Before leaving your residence hall, apartment, or office, please unplug any fridges or minifridges, computers and/or monitors, power strips, and all other energy intensive appliances or equipment! Take the pledge and/or upload a photo of what you unplugged to the campaign’s google form for raffle entries to win one of two $50 gift certificates. Recruit your friends and coworkers for an additional entry each and try to be the winning building (the building with the most participants is guaranteed one raffle winner)! Operation Unplug is open to all students, staff, and faculty. Be the slug that pulls the plug!

Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
2025-11-28 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-29 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-01 12:00 - 17:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The 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 – contested but essential – to move across it.
The exhibition draws on voices across time and perspective that frame the American landscape as more than a stage for beauty and awe. For Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Nation, to roam the land freely was life itself. For N. Scott Momaday, land must be “believed to be seen.” For Eliot Porter, light and reflection imparted magic to Glen Canyon’s waters. For Wallace Stegner, saving natural places meant saving fragments of our collective sanity. For Brook M. Thompson, the Klamath River is recognized with personhood. Alongside these perspectives, Paul’s images press us to see public land not as scenery to extract or aestheticize, but as sustenance and history. Land is alive and contested. To see closely is not to linger on a romanticized vision of the American landscape, but to reckon with responsibility: how we safeguard access, how we imagine “wildness,” and how we hold space for futures beyond our own. For Paul, this exhibition is a call for students to encounter land and light firsthand and let those encounters be their teachers.
Opening Reception
October 4, 2025
1-4pm
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Join us every Friday for Art Fridays.
No experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided.

Sep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards
Oct 3 Souvenir Keychains
Oct 10 Stamp Magnets
Oct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases
Oct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts
Oct 31 Abstract Felt Collages
Nov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons
Nov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials
Nov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday
Nov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage

Please note that the date and the project is subject to change.

Dried Wreath Workshop
2025-11-30 10:00 | Hay Barn, 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Learn 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 guide your inspiration. Personal artistic style is highly encouraged! You’ll be able to choose from a wide selection of dried materials from the UCSC Farm and other sources. With care, your wreath will last for years. Light refreshments will be served and the atmosphere promises to be jovial, creative and social.

Register

Info Session: Global Seminar Eco-Entrepreneurship in the Netherlands
2025-12-01 11:00 - 12:00
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 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.
Quick Facts:

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Courses: Crown 92G: Social and Creative Entrepreneurship, GE: PE-H (5 units) and Crown 194: Eco Entrepreneurship, GE: PR-S (5 units)
Led by: Crown Lecturer, Nada Miljkovic
Eligibility: Open to students from any major who have completed 90 units by time of departure and have a minimum of a 2.3 GPA
Dates: Summer Session 2 (Exact dates to be announced)
Finances: Financial aid applies, and scholarships are available! Budget will be posted on the website when it is available.
How to apply: Visit here for instructions. Applications open on December 1 and close on March 2.
Get in touch: Email your questions to globallearning@ucsc.edu.

Program Description:
Discover how entrepreneurship can bridge the gap between the Netherlands’ thriving economy and its commitment to environmental sustainability! Based in Amsterdam, this immersive program includes exciting site visits to Rotterdam, Utrecht, and beyond. You will collaborate with local sustainability-focused entrepreneurs, exploring how innovative business models can tackle the challenges of conservation and development. Through hands-on experience and seminars in entrepreneurship and sustainability, you will gain valuable insights into creating businesses that prioritize environmental well-being. Join us to reimagine what it means to value and protect life in a modern, holistic way. Discover more here.

AM Seminar: Denoising: A Powerful Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems and Machine Learning
2025-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93681175800?pwd=[REDACTED]
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 thousands of research papers, the wide-ranging applications of denoising beyond noise removal have not been fully recognized. This is partly due to the vast and diverse literature, making a clear overview challenging. This article aims to address this gap. We present a clarifying perspective on denoisers, their structure and their desired properties. We emphasize the increasing importance of denoising and showcase its evolution into an essential building block for complex tasks in imaging, inverse problems and machine learning. Despite its long history, the community continues to uncover unexpected and groundbreaking uses for denoising, further solidifying its place as a cornerstone of scientific and engineering practice.
Bio: Peyman is a Distinguished Scientist at Google, where he leads the Computational Imaging team. Prior to this, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Cruz for 15 years, two of those as Associate Dean for Research. From 2012-2014 he was on leave at Google-x, where he helped develop the imaging pipeline for Google Glass. Over the last decade, Peyman’s team at Google has developed several core imaging technologies that are used in many products. Among these are the zoom pipeline for the Pixel phones, which includes the multi-frame super-resolution (Super Res Zoom) pipeline, and several generations of state of the art digital upscaling algorithms. Most recently, his team led the development of Pro Res Zoom, and Unblur, features launched in Pixel 10 devices and Google Photos. Peyman received his undergraduate education in electrical engineering and mathematics from the UC Berkeley, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. He holds more than two dozen patents. He founded MotionDSP, which was acquired by Cubic Inc. Along with his students and colleagues, his research work has had deep impact in several areas of computational imaging, and applications of AI thereto – including the introduction of adaptive kernel regression to imaging; pioneering use of learning for fast, content-adaptive image upscaling (RAISR); Neural Image quality Assessment (NIMA), Regularization by Denoising (RED); and most recently (2024) Inversion by Direct Iteration (InDI). All of these works have been recognized with best paper awards. He’s been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and is a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to inverse problems and super-resolution in imaging”
Hosted by: Professor Julie Simons, Applied Mathematics
Zoom link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93681175800?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 936 8117 5800
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum
2025-12-02 09:00 - 17:00 | Arboretum, 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
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 as possible.

Western Regional Hub: Undergraduate Success Group Meeting
2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
Members of the hub’s working group focused on Undergraduate student success will meet to share ideas and strategize.
If you would like to be involved in the hub’s work, please contact Richard Raygoza at riraygoz@ucsc.edu

Women's Basketball Fundraiser at Woodstock's
2025-12-02 12:00 - 21:00 | Woodstock’s Pizza, 710 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
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 go directly to supporting the UCSC Women’s Basketball team—helping fund travel, gear, and program needs.

Bring your friends, grab some pizza, and help our Slugs shine this season!

Gingerbread House Decorating
2025-12-02 14:00 - 16:00
Create the house of your dreams while hangin’ with friends and Provost Aims McGuinness.

UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan Informational Webinar
2025-12-02 17:30 - 18:30
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 and community regarding the proposed Comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan, its goals, and how it will guide future conservation and planning efforts at UC Santa Cruz. The webinar will include a presentation followed by an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

Event: UC Santa Cruz Comprehensive HCP Informational Webinar
Date & Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 5:30 pm
Location: Online (Zoom link provided once registered)
Registration: HCP Webinar

Megha Majumdar - A Guardian and a Thief
2025-12-02 19:00 - 20:00 | 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 food scarcity, in which two families trying to protect their children must battle one another.
RSVP here!
Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning, which was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vogue, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner, she was born and raised in Kolkata, India, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult Books, and lives in New York. A Guardian and A Thief is her second novel.
More information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Megha Majumdar
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.

NLP MS Virtual Information Session
2025-12-02 19:00 - 20:00
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 alumni
Full and partial scholarships
Dedicated careers services support
Internship and research opportunities

Registration required: bit.ly/4nYyssJ

Free Coffee, Tea, & More with Merrill Provost Aims McGuinness
2025-12-03 09:00 - 11:00
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
2025-12-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
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 logics that capture a program’s ‘must’ rather than ‘may’ behavior. This talk explores how to transplant these ideas of underapproximation into an expressive refinement type system. Our development enables us to:

(a) Typecheck the completeness of property-based testing (PBT) generators, ensuring that a well-typed generator produces all values (i.e., fully covers) its output type;

(b) Synthesize effectful generators by extending the type system to model underapproximations of sequences of effects rather than just values; and

(c) Guide symbolic execution in effectful functional programs, prioritizing execution paths capable of falsifying data structure safety properties.

Our results demonstrate that viewing types through the lens of underapproximation offers a principled foundation for designing, implementing, and reasoning about program analyzers and test generators, significantly improving their reliability and practical utility in the process.

Bio:
Suresh Jagannathan is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. His interests span functional programming, program verification, distributed and concurrent systems, and trustworthy machine learning. In recent years, he has spent time as an Amazon Scholar, a program manager at the Information Innovoation Office (I2O) at DARPA, and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. He serves an Associate Editor of ACM TOPLAS, and has served as both General and PC Chair of POPL (ACM Symposium on Programming Languages).

Hosted by: Professor Mohsen Lesani

Location: E2-180
*Refreshments such as coffee and pastries will be provided

Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93445911992?pwd=[REDACTED]

Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar Series presents: Matt Weinberg
2025-12-03 11:50 - 13:10 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Applied Microeconomics and Trade Seminar
Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Time: 11:50am – 1:10 p.m.
Location: E2-499

Speaker: Matt Weinberg
Title: Professor of Economics
Affiliation: Ohio State University
Host: Jon Robinson

Seminar title: Oligopsony and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from K-12 Teachers

ABSTRACT: Employers facing limited labor market competition may suppress wages below socially optimal levels. Unions can counteract this wage suppression through collective bargaining, though the may also push wages above the socially optimal level. To assess these forces, we estimate a structural model of labor supply, labor demand, and Nashin-Nash bargaining over wages between teacher unions and school districts in Pennsylvania’s K-12 public school system from 2013 to 2020. Using the estimated parameters, we compare negotiated equilibrium wages and employment to the pure oligopsony scenario and the social planner scenario. On average, pure oligopsony reduces wages 16 percent below the social optimum, while collective bargaining raises wages by 9 percent above the optimum. This average masks substantial district-level heterogeneity driven by variation in bargaining power. Twenty-seven percent of schools have negotiated salaries below the social optimum due to cross-district externalities, where high salaries at one school lead to hiring reductions, which increase labor supply in competing districts.

Marketing Yourself In The Arts Industry
2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00
Join the Arts Division and Career Success for a fast-paced, interactive online workshop on how to market yourself in the Arts—the event will cover personal branding, transferable skills, networking, gig work and more, giving you clear action steps to stand out in Arts-related careers and beyond.
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ADMISSION
– FREE for UCSC students
– Registration required here
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This program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.

College Night: One Planet, One Home
2025-12-03 17:00 - 20:00 | 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 be a screening of the animated film Wall-E, an exploration of conservation efforts around the globe, and tablers offering up information. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all students, faculty, and staff are invited.
Please note: The dining hall will be closed from 2–5 p.m. for event preparation.
Learn more about College Nights at dining.ucsc.edu/events.
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You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.How to Use the Statement Across Communication Channels

College Night: Pop Music Around the World - KPop Demon Hunters
2025-12-03 17:00 - 20:00 | 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 students, faculty, and staff are invited.
Please note: The dining hall will be closed from 2–5 p.m. for event preparation.
Learn more about College Nights at dining.ucsc.edu/events.
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You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.How to Use the Statement Across Communication Channels

Friends of Juristac UCSC Chapter Meeting
2025-12-03 17:30 - 18:30 | College 9 /John R. Lewis Community Room, College Ten Road, Santa Cruz, 95064, 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 the cause and making art.
Learn more at protectjuristac.org
Location: the College Nine/John R. Lewis Community Room (map) is located behind Social Sciences 2 in the College Nine/JRL apartments community.
This event is hosted by The CoCo (College Nine & John R. Lewis College CoCurricular Programs Office).
Questions? Please email coco@ucsc.edu

You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.How to Use the Statement Across Communication Channels

Learn about the Educational Therapy Certificate Program
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:00
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 students and build your practice
Gain skills to support students with learning differences like dyslexia, ADHD, and autism using therapeutic and educational strategies. Whether you’re working in schools or starting a private practice, this program helps you create individualized plans that foster meaningful progress.
Program organizer
This fall info session is sponsored by the Educational Therapy certificate program, a program approved by the Association of Educational Therapists.
Claim your seat- register today!
