DNA Day
Join the UCSC Genomics Institute in our annual celebration of DNA!
20 events found.
Events
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Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
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Zheng, Z. (STATS) – Semi-Supervised Statistical Learning for Oceanographic Data
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventOceanographic data, generated by modern technologies that measure biological systems across time, space, and cell populations, are often rich, high-dimensional, and highly heterogeneous. Such data provide valuable opportunities to study […]
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BME80G Seminar: Ed Green, “DNA Forensics in The Genomics Age”
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Richard “Ed” Green, Professor of Bimolecular Engineering @ UCSC Bio: Richard E. Green (Ed) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1972. He graduated from the University of Georgia (B.Sc. Genetics) in 1997. Before graduate school, Ed was in Peace Corps (Barentu, Eritrea) and was a lab tech at Emory University. Ed studied with Steven […]
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Harriet: Performing Anarchive
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThrough motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI (Dr. Chari Smith) performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment […]
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Harriet: Performing an Archive
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThrough motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment as the performance […]
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Spring Plant Sale
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStock your garden with premium organic seedlings while supporting student education! Browse a huge variety of flowers, vegetables, herbs, and strawberries—all grown by UCSC Farm staff, students, and volunteers in our greenhouses. Proceeds support the Center for Agroecology’s hands-on learning programs. View the full list of varieties here. Special Perks: Friends of the Farm & […]
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Pesticide Reality Tour
Watsonville, CA *Optional Transportation and Lunch Provided!!* Join us to learn about the use and impacts of toxic pesticides on fields around Watsonville homes and schools. Attendees will learn […]
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Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAOn April 25, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar, and the Crews Diversity in Science Lecture, all on the same day. In addition, we will include a lecture focused on Physical Chemistry and Materials Research. We hope to […]
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Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAOn April 25, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar, and the UCSC Phillip Crews Symposium: Powered by Chemistry, Strengthened by Discovery Science Lecture, all on the same day. In addition, we will include a lecture focused on Physical […]
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Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium
Jack Baskin Auditorium 191 Baskin Cir, Santa Cruz, CAOn April 25, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar, and the UCSC Phillip Crews Symposium: Powered by Chemistry, Strengthened by Discovery Science Lecture, all on the same day. In addition, we will include a lecture focused on Physical […]
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Artist Tour with Libia Posada
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesWe are thrilled to invite you to join Libia Posada, a multidisciplinary artist as well as a physician, for this artist-led tour of Everything is Going Right, the premiere solo exhibition of her work in the United States. With artworks influenced by her medical training, Posada will discuss how she engages the body as a […]
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It’s California Native Plant Month at the UCSC Arboretum!
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin us at Norrie’s Gift and Garden Shop at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden for a pop-up information booth about California’s Native Plants. Here at the Arboretum, we like to say: if you plant it, they will come, and that is a fact we have seen borne out again and again in our gardens. […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker Luat T. Vuong – Biospeculative approaches to the “needle in a haystack”: vortex encoders and hybrid optical neural-networks
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Luat Vuong, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside Description: Given the growing computational demands of machine learning, how can we scale approaches for sifting through large volumes of data—including patterned or delayed information embedded as “noise”? Many computer vision applications have a strict power budget and demand robust, rapid-response, and even real-time image […]
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Quality First Coding Contest
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThis is a programming contest, but with a twist! Instead of scoring you based on your speed and solution accuracy, we score you based on your programming quality and solution accuracy. This means that instead of looking at how fast you can program a solution, we look at your number of compiles/runs instead.* The contestant that […]
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CM Seminar: Edward Wang, “Inventing a New Blood Pressure Monitor”
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesPresented by: Edward Wang Description: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor, from Seismo, which used smartphone accelerometers to measure pulse transit time, to BPClip, a dollar clip that brought calibration-free oscillometry to the fingertip, to VibroBP, which […]
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Socio-Ecological Complexity in Coffee Agroecosystems
Sanya Cowal from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link One of the most pressing global challenges considers how to combine sustainable agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation. Agricultural systems have been dramatically transformed and intensified, leading to the simplification of agricultural landscapes through increased agrochemical use, landscape homogeneity, decreased […]
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This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola
Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CAPlease join us for “This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola,” an Anthropology Colloquium with Iracema Dulley (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon), on April 27th at 3:30 in Social Sciences 1, Rm. 261 or by Zoom.
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Statistics Seminar: Active Learning for Fair and Stable Allocations
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Postdoc, UCSC Description: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents […]
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AM Seminar: Machine Learning in Molecular Simulations: From Free Energy to Vibrational Spectroscopy
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Marcos Calegari Andrade, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz Description: In this talk, I will demonstrate how neural networks can represent the high-dimensional potential energy surfaces of […]
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LinkedIn 101: Create A Great Profile That Gets Noticed!
Hahn Student Services Hahn Student Services, Santa Cruz, CA“Do I really need a LinkedIn profile to get hired?” The answer is YES! Employers and recruiters absolutely use LinkedIn to look for and research candidates. Come to this fast-paced and practical workshop to learn more about the basics of creating a LinkedIn profile that gets noticed and just might help you land your dream job!