• Statistics Seminar: Decoding Phytoplankton Responses to a Changing Ocean

    Presenter: Francois Ribalet, Research Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington Description: François Ribalet will present new observational technologies and computational approaches for studying phytoplankton responses to ocean warming. Using SeaFlow, a custom-built automated flow cytometer deployed on over 100 research cruises, his team has collected nearly 850 billion cell measurements across global oceans. […]

  • Xu, Y. (CSE) – Right Place, Right Time: Accelerating Edge Computation on Modern Heterogeneous SoCs

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

    Modern edge computing increasingly relies on heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures. These chips tightly integrate general-purpose CPUs with various specialized accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, and AI accelerators, all under a shared memory architecture. Although these shared-memory SoCs enable more efficient communication and data sharing between different processing units, they are notoriously difficult to program and tune […]

  • Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Located in Communications 150, Studio C Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting […]

  • Weather and the Whale Book Launch and Closing Party

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    March 6, 2026 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The IAS will host a Celebration of the release of the Weather and the Whale catalog with an after-hours viewing of the […]

  • UCSC Grad Slam Final – March 7th

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, United States

    What is Grad Slam? Three Minutes. One Slide. Thousands of Dollars in Prizes! Grad Slam is a communication contest hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Graduate Division that highlights graduate […]

    Free
  • The Trial of Spock—An Opera Workshop

    The Trial of Spock
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall.  Captain […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • “The Cigarette Surfboard” screening with filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge ’17)

    Media Theater M110 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join Banana Slug alumni filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge ’17, film and digital media) and “ciggy board” creator Taylor Lane for a screening of their award-winning documentary, The Cigarette Surfboard (presented by the California Coastal Commission’s […]

    Free
  • Mashhadi, N. (CSE) – Compositional, Clinically Conditioned, and Confound-Aware Deep Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging

    Virtual Event

    Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder and a leading cause of dementia. Neuroimaging and clinical biomarkers can reveal early disease changes, but building reliable machine learning models is difficult because data come from different scanners and sites, some modalities are missing, labeled cohorts are limited, and factors such as age and scanner/site effects […]

  • Research Lunch & Learn: PI Eligibility and the Exception to Policy (ETP) Process

    Virtual Event

    Join us on March 11, 2026, 12-1 p.m. for a session led by Deirdre Beach, Executive Director of the Office of Sponsored Projects, and others as they discuss and review UCSC’s policy on Principal Investigator (PI) eligibility. This session will highlight which appointments are eligible to request an exception, when PIship is necessary to support […]

  • What’s new in AI?

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

    Chat with the AI chair Lead innovation as a machine learning engineer Want to learn what’s new in AI? Join Praveen Krishna, chair of the Artificial Intelligence Application Development certificate program, in an informal discussion about the AI topic of the month and an open Q&A. You’ll get an insider’s look at what you need […]

  • Success as a digital content creator: From passion to profession

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

    Want to turn your creativity into a career? This session explores how to succeed as a digital content creator — whether on YouTube, TikTok, podcasts, or blogs. Learn how to identify your niche, build an audience, monetize your content, and stay consistent without burning out. We’ll also cover tools, trends, and tips from creators who’ve […]