• Sharma, R. (CSE) – Automatically Evolving GPU Libraries for Performance Portable AI Kernels

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

    GPUs are the workhorses of modern AI, widely deployed and developed by many vendors including Apple, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA. While these GPUs all offer high compute potential, programming them effectively is difficult because they differ in performance-critical features like SIMT width, cache capacity, and memory bandwidth, demanding different optimization strategies. Tunable kernels address […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Heterogeneous Statistical Transfer Learning

    Hybrid Event

    Presenter: Subhadeep Paul, Associate Professor, Ohio State University Description: In the first part of the talk, we consider the problem of Transfer Learning (TL) under heterogeneity from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature […]

  • SC County Spelling Bee 2026

    The Santa Cruz County Office of Education coordinates the Elementary (grades 4-6) and Junior High (grades 7-9) County Spelling Bee Competition.

    free
  • Battle of the Bands 2026

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Kresge College Programs Office are excited to announce the 5th Annual Battle of the Bands event that will be happening on Saturday, January 24th from 7pm-10pm at the Porter/Kresge Dining Hall. ⭐️ We invite you all to check out our various student bands and be a part of the decision in choosing the WINNER […]

    Free
  • Student Recital—Isabella Walsh, Soprano

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Isabella Walsh, soprano, accompanied by Luke Shepherd, piano, presents works by Isabella Colbran, Johannes Brahms, Reynaldo Hahn, Amy Beach, and others in a Bachelor of Music recital. — ADMISSION – FREE and open to the public – Doors open 30 min. before the scheduled event start time. — PARKING – Parking by permit or ParkMobile […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Screening: Queering Movement, Stories Embodied Film Shorts

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

    The IAS, BBQueer Fest, and Motion Pacific invite you to attend “Queering Movement: Stories Embodied,” an evening celebrating short films by local Black, brown and queer artists and dancers. The screening and Q&A with filmmakers and participants showcases the interplay of activism, movement, and performance. Social hour to follow! Light snacks and (non-alcoholic) refreshments will be provided. Films are in […]

  • Echoes on the Hill | Techno Night

    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Echoes on the Hill Techno Night A small concert spotlighting student talent — all students welcome! Featuring student DJs + 6+ artists Come through for good music, good vibes, pizza, drinks, and dancing College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall Multipurpose Room Sunday, January 25 6–9 p.m.   You Belong Here: The programs and services described […]

  • ECE Seminar: Tactile sensing: At the boundary between mechanical and computational intelligence in robotic grippers

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

    Presenter: Dr. Hannah Stuart, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley Description: Robot grippers typically include mechanical intelligence (e.g., underactuation, compliance) or computational intelligence (e.g., fully actuated with a wide array of sensors). Next generation grippers and hands will require both intelligences to work in concert across applications with […]

  • Info Session: Global Seminar Latin American Spain

    Learn more at our upcoming Information Session: Monday, January 26, at 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. via Zoom. Register Here Earn 6 units on a summer program on the UCSC Global Seminar: Latin American Spain in Madrid this summer. This program is taught by Catherine S. Ramírez, Chair of the UCSC Latin American and Latino Studies Department. Quick Facts: Location: Madrid, […]

  • Statistics Seminar: Boosting Biomedical Imaging Analysis via Distributed Functional Regression and Synthetic Surrogates

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Guannan Wang, Associate Professor, The College of William & Mary Description: Generative AI has emerged as a powerful tool for synthesizing biomedical images, offering new solutions to challenges such as data scarcity, privacy constraints, and modality imbalance. However, the reliable use of synthetic images in scientific analysis requires principled statistical frameworks that can assess […]

  • AM Seminar: Probing Forced Responses and Causality in Data-Driven Climate Emulators: Conceptual Limitations and the Role of Reduced-Order Models

    Virtual Event

    Presenter: Fabrizio Falasca, New York University Description: A central challenge in climate science and applied mathematics is developing data-driven models of multiscale systems that capture both stationary statistics and responses to external perturbations. Current neural climate emulators aim to resolve the atmosphere–ocean system in all its complexity but often struggle to reproduce forced responses, limiting […]

  • Gaining Experiences to Help Prepare for Your Pre-Health Journey

    Virtual Event

    Join us to learn what types of experiences you can do to prepare you for your healthcare journey. We will also provide strategies on how to gain experience and how to leverage it for your professional healthcare applications. This session is for students who are interested in applying to medical or other professional healthcare programs. […]

  • College Night: Back to the Past

    College Nights
    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    College Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “Back to the Past” an exploration of activism through the decades. Join us Tuesday, January 27 from […]

  • How to Optimize Your Career Fair Experience

    Virtual Event

    Interested in attending one of our upcoming career fairs but not sure what to do once you’re there? We can help with that!

    Join us for this webinar on Tuesday, January 27th from 5:30-6:30 to learn about how to make the most out of the experience. You get answers to these questions
    – What should you do to prepare in advance?
    – How should you engage with recruiters and other attendees?
    – Are there any practices or strategies to be mindful of before, during, and after?
    Plus much more…

    Career fairs can be a solid way to engage with recruiters to learn about job and internship opportunities as well as get an idea of what it’s like to work in a field that you might be interested in. Having a solid understanding of how to navigate your experience can help make a huge difference.