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Join us for an interactive discussion on current industry trends, emerging skills, and career opportunities, and learn how our Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering courses are designed to help professionals build […]
Join us for an interactive discussion on current industry trends, emerging skills, and career opportunities, and learn how our Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering courses are designed to help professionals build […]
What’s a family vacation without a little murder? Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and […]
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
This thesis explores iterative methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), which are used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model a wide range of physical phenomena. The primary application of interest here is self-gravity, modeled by Poisson’s equation. Although many numerical approaches exist, including direct matrix inversion, FFT-based methods, and classical iterative methods such as Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel, these approaches involve tradeoffs in computational cost, scalability, implementation complexity, and adaptability to changing boundary conditions and problem configurations. Therefore, we introduce SORh, a simple and efficient relaxation method derived from a hyperbolic reformulation of Poisson’s equation. SORh generalizes classical successive […]
Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – Irvine, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent. This complimentary, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range of industries and career fields. Meet face-to-face with hiring representatives, learn about current opportunities, expand your professional network, and discover what’s next in your career journey. Tuesday, August 18, 2026 UCI Student Center Whether you’re actively searching for your next role or exploring future possibilities, we invite […]
In this workshop, you will: Learn reading and note-taking methods and why they work to help you learn. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you will be introduced to a topic, engage in active learning, be given resources to begin implementing the same day, and have an opportunity to learn more if you are interested. You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal […]
Deep learning models trained on simulation and reanalysis data can now emulate turbulent geophysical flows at a small fraction of the computational cost of numerical solvers. Their scientific utility depends on physical consistency, which for the systems studied here rests in large part on spectral fidelity, the accurate reconstruction of variance across spatial scales. This document presents two published studies and two studies in progress that develop, analyze, and apply data-driven methods for turbulent phenomena along that thread. The first study develops FCDS, a framework that autoregressively emulates surface ocean dynamics over the Gulf of Mexico at 8 km resolution and […]
Join UC alumni from all ten campuses working and driving innovation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for an exclusive networking reception. Expand your professional network, celebrate your shared UC experience, and enjoy light appetizers, refreshments, and great conversation in a relaxed, open-air environment. Tuesday, August 18 | 6-7:30 p.m. PT The Commons at UCI Research Park Register by August 12 to ensure your spot!
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda, the Sesnon’s Director, […]
Wednesday, August 5, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM Register for the Zoom link. Learn the key nutrition principles that support cardiovascular health and discover practical cooking strategies that fit into a busy work schedule. We’ll explore easy ingredient swaps, meal-building techniques, and simple ways to add more flavor while reducing excess sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars. Leave with simple ideas to create delicious meals that nourish the heart and overall well-being. In this session, you’ll learn: Characteristics of heart-healthy eating patterns How to build balanced meals using simple, everyday ingredients Make healthier swaps without sacrificing taste Register here for the Zoom […]
This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda, the Sesnon’s Director, […]
Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – San Francisco, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent. This complimentary, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range of industries and career fields. Meet face-to-face with hiring representatives, learn about current opportunities, expand your professional network, and discover what’s next in your career journey. Thursday, August 20, 2026 South San Francisco Conference Center Whether you’re actively searching for your next role or exploring future […]
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 span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives. In part, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems, lived experience, […]
Host-microbe systems are core to some of biology’s most consequential interactions, from the pathogens that drive infectious disease to symbionts affecting agricultural pest control and vector-borne disease transmission. Yet unlike the model organisms that have driven most of modern molecular biology, the microbes at the center of these interactions are rarely genetically tractable: many cannot be cultured outside a host, resist standard tools for genetic manipulation, and are annotated largely by homology to distantly related free-living relatives. This dissertation develops genomic, proteomic, and computational methods to work around this lack of infrastructure and contribute techniques and tools to the study and […]
Interested in becoming a Special Education Teacher Assistant? Join us for an informative session to explore the courses designed to prepare you for success in inclusive and special education classrooms. We’ll provide an overview of the curriculum, discuss current industry trends and workforce demand, highlight career opportunities, and answer your questions about getting started. Your speaker Sharmila Roy, Ph.D., began her teaching journey in India and pursued further training in the United Kingdom before earning her doctorate in Special Education from the University of Buffalo in New York. She brings over three decades of expertise in special education to her role […]
Join UC Santa Cruz Healthcare Pathways for a live online information session to learn about our Premed Postbacc Cohort, Premed and Pre-Health DIY Pathways, and other program offerings. We’ll provide an overview of our programs and cover how to apply for our next admissions cycle, which opens August 7. We’ll also discuss the application process, admissions timeline, coursework, advising, MCAT preparation, and more. You’ll have plenty of time to ask questions and connect directly with program staff. CLAIM YOUR SEAT TODAY.
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda, the Sesnon’s Director, […]
This PhD research focuses on developing reliable medical foundation models capable of reasoning across textual, visual, and interactive clinical information. The work investigates three complementary directions: improving medical reasoning through test-time scaling, training multimodal medical models with verifiable rewards, and synthesizing high-quality visual question-answering data from biomedical literature using generator-verifier frameworks. Building on these efforts, the proposed research will extend medical language and multimodal models toward agentic systems that can gather evidence, use external tools, integrate multimodal information, and verify decisions over sequential interactions. Overall, this research aims to improve the reliability, efficiency, and transparency of medical AI reasoning while supporting […]
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: UC Santa Cruz Arts Alumni Exhibition features Arts Division alumni from the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. Curated by Valéria Miranda, the Sesnon’s Director, […]