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SUMMARY:Kordonowy\, S. (CS) - The Role of Circuits in Near-Term Quantum Computation
DESCRIPTION:As quantum computing transitions from theory to practice\, understanding which algorithms suit near-term devices becomes critical. Current quantum computers are severely constrained by limited qubit counts\, short coherence times\, and high error rates that quickly degrade computation into noise. This thesis addresses two interconnected questions: what non-trivial computational tasks can near-term devices execute and how should algorithms be implemented to exploit available hardware? We examine circuit design as the bridge between these concerns\, analyzing how gate choices determine algorithmic efficiency and computational hardness. By deriving explicit circuit constructions\, we obtain tangible cost estimates for practical quantum computation\, enabling precise comparisons to classical approaches and identification of break-even points in system size and error rates. Understanding these trade-offs is essential for near-term quantum computing\, where experiments are expensive and error-prone. \nWe apply these ideas to three domains:\n1. Streaming: we provide circuit implementations for the Boolean Hidden Matching problem\, a combinatorial problem which exhibits exponential space separation compared to classical algorithms. We give explicit resource estimates and experimentally validate on Quantinuum’s trapped-ion hardware. We demonstrate that quantum advantage persists even when accounting for error correction overhead. \n2. Variational eigensolving: We examine how gate set choices influence trainability of variational quantum eigensolvers and provide Lie algebraic decompositions for differing gate sets. These decompositions are in turn used as a warm-starting heuristic to overcome barren plateaus\, a common problem in quantum machine learning tasks\, and improve convergence. We apply this technique to three combinatorial problems with primary focus on portfolio optimization. \n3. Cryptography: We develop a digital signature scheme based on circuit learning hardness and classical shadows. Error detection plays a direct role in the circuits considered\, with a focus on practical implementation for near-term devices. \nThese case studies demonstrate how careful circuit design can either mitigate near-term\nconstraints or expose where error correction becomes necessary to achieve quantum\nadvantage. \n  \nEvent Host: Steven Kordonowy\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science  \nAdvisor: Alexandra Kolla  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/9524731001?pwd=MzdrNmhidVBsTXNFbktBcjEvNmZIQT09&omn=96338496668  \nPasscode: J29XGi \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/kordonowy-s-cs-the-role-of-circuits-in-near-term-quantum-computation/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Okamoto\, F. (BMEB) - Improving read-to-pangenome alignment in complicated genomic regions
DESCRIPTION:Many genetics pipelines start by aligning sequencing reads to a reference genome. Aligners attempt to find the position in the reference sequence which best matches the read sequence\, but this breaks down when the reads come from a sample with variation relative to the reference. A proposed alternative\, pangenome graphs\, is supposed to fix such “reference bias” by including known variation within the reference itself. Yet read alignment is still difficult in graph regions featuring certain complex variation. I will address specific known limitations of pangenome read alignment by developing better methods to align reads to pangenomes (1) in centromeres\, (2) in regions with cycles\, (3) when a “split”/supplementary alignment is required\, and (4) for RNA-seq reads. \nEvent Host: Faith Okamoto\, Ph.D. Student\, Biomolecular Engineering & Bioinformatics \nAdvisor: Benedict Paten \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/3543092299?pwd=5xbPfPhxvoJlx24tusiOwPuLSjzwzb.1 \nPasscode: 767376
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/okamoto-f-bmeb-improving-read-to-pangenome-alignment-in-complicated-genomic-regions/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:BME 280B Seminar: Accelerating the diagnosis of rare diseases using multi-omics
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Stephen Montgomery\, Endowed Professor of Pathology\, Genetics\, Biomedical Data Science\, Computer Science\, Stanford University \n  \nDescription: N/A \n  \nBio: Stephen Montgomery is an Endowed Professor of Pathology\, Genetics\, Biomedical Data Science and\, by courtesy\, Computer Science at Stanford University. He has trained in multiple countries including Canada\, Germany\, England\, and Switzerland. He is best known for his work mapping the effects of genetic variation to gene expression and authored the first publications that compared whole genomes and transcriptome data within a human population and pioneered the use of molecular outliers to identify impactful rare variants (Montgomery et al\, 2010\, Montgomery et al\, 2011). \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme-280b-seminar-accelerating-the-diagnosis-of-rare-diseases-using-multi-omics/
LOCATION:Biomedical Sciences\, Biomedical Sciences Building Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Week 10: De-Stress Event
DESCRIPTION:Need to let off some steam before finals? \nJoin the Center for Leadership and Involvement for the ultimate Week 10 de-stressor! \nChoose between: \nThe Rage Room: Choose the path of total mayhem! Grab a bat\, suit up\, and smash your stress away on old electronics and glassware in a safe\, enclosed space. \nThe Splatter Room: Choose the path of creative release! Get messy and unleash your creativity by throwing on vibrant\, washable paint to create a masterpiece. \nJoin us at the Cowell Courtyard to take a much-needed breather before exams! \n_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nYou 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. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/week-10-de-stress-event/
LOCATION:Cowell Courtyard\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Lietz\, R. (CM) - Reflecting on Failure: Designing and Evaluating Archetype Profiles as a Tool for Self-Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Self-reflection holds significant potential for learning\, behavior change\, and emotional processing\, yet designing technologies that effectively support it remains challenging\, particularly when reflection involves difficult experiences such as failure. Most current technologies avoid negative experiences altogether\, leaving users without support at precisely the moments when reflection could be most valuable.\nThis dissertation investigates how technology can better support self-reflection through three mixed-methods studies. The first examines how people experience and reflect on failure\, revealing how identity\, self-blame\, and emotional avoidance create barriers to productive reflection. These findings informed an iterative design process through which archetype profiles emerged as a promising reflective format. The second study evaluated archetype profiles against standard graph-based visualizations\, finding that the quiz-profile sequence effectively scaffolded reflection by supporting emotional re-engagement followed by cognitive reframing. The third study extended this work into a collaborative context\, examining archetype profiles derived from sleep tracking data as shareable artifacts for social reflection. Across these studies\, this dissertation contributes empirical insights into reflection on failure and design knowledge about archetype profiles as a reflective format. \nEvent Host: Rebecca Lietz\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computational Media \nAdvisor: Steve Whittaker \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/7855885795?pwd=RS9mWXhQOXNyNmRVSzQrd1MzamJVQT09 \nPasscode: 172404
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/lietz-r-cm-reflecting-on-failure-designing-and-evaluating-archetype-profiles-as-a-tool-for-self-reflection/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening! "Ideas to Postpone the End of the World": Artists Books and Archives towards Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
DESCRIPTION:Join us on on Thursday\, June 4th from 2:00–3:00pm for Ideas to Postpone the End of the World: Artists Books and Archives toward Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve\, a pop-up exhibition curated by MFA student SeeVa Dawne Kitslis! \nJust a sliver of the wonderful artist book collection at Special Collections & Archives at UC Santa Cruz focused on how artists are negotiating their relationship with\, through\, and alongside the natural world. \nThe phrase\, “ideas to postpone the end of the world”\, is Krenak philosopher and writer\, Ailton Krenak’s observation that both creativity and poetry can hold off ‘the sky from falling’ by preserving indigenous ways of life that are more integrated with the natural world. This collection of artist books tries to open up that cavity and showcase the diverse material modalities\, timescales\, and geographies of artists that connect with ecological storytelling. \n“For a long time\, we have been alienated from the organism to which we belong–the earth. So much so that we begin to think of Earth and Humanity as two separate entities. I can’t see anything on Earth that is not Earth. Everything I can think of is a part of nature.” -Ailton Krenak \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/exhibit-opening-ideas-to-postpone-the-end-of-the-world-artists-books-and-archives-towards-landels-hill-big-creek-reserve/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Imlau Dagostini\, J. (CSE) - Intent-Driven Orchestration for Scientific Computing
DESCRIPTION:The growing complexity of high-performance computing (HPC) systems poses a fundamental challenge for domain scientists\, whose primary objective is to obtain scientifically valid results rather than to optimize resource utilization. Modern leadership-class facilities combine heterogeneous CPUs\, GPUs\, and specialized accelerators across systems that simultaneously support traditional scientific simulations and AI-driven workloads. This creates a vast\, machine-dependent configuration space that even experienced systems researchers find difficult to navigate. In practice\, users must explicitly specify resources\, node counts\, and walltime estimates before submitting jobs to an orchestrator\, resulting in iterative trial-and-error that wastes both human effort and compute resources. \nThis thesis proposes an intent-driven orchestration middleware for scientific computing\, in which domain scientists express high-level computational goals rather than low-level resource parameters\, and the system assumes responsibility for identifying configurations that satisfy those goals efficiently. This thesis proposal builds on a completed study of the computational performance of pangenome mapping\, a representative workload of data-intensive pipelines increasingly common in modern science. We demonstrate that tailoring tuning parameters to specific inputs and architectures yields significant performance improvements while exposing the depth of the configuration search problem that motivates this thesis. We then present an in-progress user-aware\, intent-driven middleware that uses surrogate models to aid this exploration and map high-level goals to suitable configurations. We end this presentation by proposing a cluster-aware orchestrator that enables existing HPC resource managers to support intent-aware decision-making. \nEvent Host: Jessica Imlau Dagostini\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Abel Souza \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93851280425?pwd=v4ONi9N5UlfZmsMqiI4gSkxFXe0oaX.1 \nPasscode: 835985 \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/imlau-dagostini-j-cse-intent-driven-orchestration-for-scientific-computing/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED—Celebrating Agroecology: A book talk with Author Bruce H. Jennings and Mayor Fred Keeley
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed. \nJoin us for a conversation with Author Bruce H. Jennings and Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley about Jennings’ new book\, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas. \nRSVP \nAbout the book\nAs the climate crisis becomes more urgent and issues of social inequality intensify\, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas shows how agroecology offers hope rooted in a deeper understanding of ecology\, society\, and collective struggle. In the 1940s\, a US-backed campaign spread industrial agriculture across the Americas\, dismantling traditional farming systems that had sustained campesino communities for generations. The result was ecological damage\, cultural loss\, and deepened inequality. Amid this devastation\, a group of Latin American scientists chose another path. Working alongside farmers\, Indigenous communities\, and social movements\, they helped shape a new vision — agroecology: a science grounded in ecology\, cultural respect\, and political commitment to those most marginalized. Revolutionary Science tells their story and asks a vital question: Can agroecology thrive as both a science and a movement strong enough to advance livelihood for millions of campesinos and many others across the Americas?
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/celebrating-agroecology-a-book-talk-with-author-bruce-h-jennings-and-mayor-fred-keeley/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Business Administration in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to build practical leadership\, finance\, marketing\, and management skills for today’s dynamic business environment. \nReynold Lewke\, M.S.\, M.B.A\, LLB\, a corporate attorney\, litigator\, author\, and business advisor\, will explore how AI is reshaping business operations\, decision-making\, and strategy\, and how emerging technologies are being integrated across the field. Attendees will gain insight into upcoming courses\, evolving career pathways\, and the skills professionals need to drive performance and adapt in today’s rapidly changing marketplace. \nKeep learning this summer\n\nSupply Chain Operations Management | May 30\nBusiness Communications | June 17\nFinance I\, Fundamentals | June 22\nFinance for the Business Professional | July 9\nManaging Global Supply Chains | Aug. 8\n\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup. \nClaim your seat!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/business-administration-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Creative Technologies—Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural class of Creative Technologies presents\, Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis\, a digital art exhibition hosted in New Art City. This digital showcase highlights the culmination of the students’ work both in and out of the program. Explore the various creations from our students that range from game design\, digital art\, media and visual design. Through individual exploration and collaborative exchanges\, these students have shaped a virtual destination that is representative of their personal creative growth and technical practice. We invite visitors to explore a small glimpse into the variety of work this program has been able to foster and sharpen\, and to see just how “creative” Creative Technologies can be. \n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to UCSC affiliates.\n– This is an online event.\n– Click this link here to enter the Creative Tech Lobby. \n—\nThis program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ct-digital-spaces/
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:UCSC Jazz Combos
DESCRIPTION:Join the UC Santa Cruz Jazz Combos for a spring concert. Directed by Charles Hamilton.\n—\nADMISSION\n– General admission\n– Free for UCSC students (ticket required).\n– Tickets available here online through Eventbrite only.\n– Follow the Music Dept on Eventbrite for notices and updates.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates may use a valid UCSC A-permit or daily scratcher rather than purchasing additional event parking.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services.\n—\nEVENT FLYER\n\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-jazz-combos-spring-2026/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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SUMMARY:Chen\, Z. (CSE) - GPU Subgroup Semantics for Portable High-Performance Kernels
DESCRIPTION:Modern high-performance GPU kernels increasingly rely on subgroup-level execution\, including subgroup-level communication\, subgroup operations\, and matrix operations. These features are essential for workloads such as matrix multiplication and FlashAttention\, but their language-level guarantees remain difficult to reason about. Existing programming models often leave unclear which threads participate in subgroup operations\, when subgroup threads are required to execute together\, and what synchronization is implied by subgroup-level operations. This ambiguity becomes especially important in portable GPU programming\, where the same kernel may run across devices with different subgroup sizes\, compiler stacks\, browser backends\, and hardware execution behavior. \nMy research studies how precise subgroup semantics can support portable and correct high-performance GPU kernels. SIMT-Step\, my main completed work\, develops a formal and flexible operational semantics for GPU subgroup execution. It introduces dynamic blocks to specify converged subgroup execution and subgroup-operation participation\, classifies instructions as independent\, synchronous\, or collective to express a spectrum of candidate subgroup semantics\, and validates these models through a TLA+ implementation and an empirical fuzzing study across real GPUs. My systems work studies how subgroup-dependent kernels behave in practice\, including WebGPU FlashAttention kernels for LLM inference\, tunable WebGPU kernels for performance portability\, and Vulkan-based execution for heterogeneous SoCs. Building on these foundations\, my proposed verification work develops data-race-free checking techniques for ML kernels that rely on subgroup operations and matrix operations. Together\, these projects aim to clarify the execution guarantees that optimized GPU kernels can rely on and to support portable GPU programming systems whose performance and correctness can be reasoned about across diverse hardware. \nEvent Host: Zheyuan Chen\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Tyler Sorensen \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/92175288480?pwd=jGajtqerVbKuW1FPNr3awqOYoxATsp.1&jst=3 \nPasscode: 693354
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/chen-z-cse-gpu-subgroup-semantics-for-portable-high-performance-kernels/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T180000
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SUMMARY:52nd Annual Print Sale—a two-day event
DESCRIPTION:The 52nd anniversary of the UCSC Print Sale runs in conjunction with the Art Department’s Spring Open Studios. Hundreds of original prints will be for sale in a variety of media at this two-day event\, including: \n\nWoodcuts\nLithographs\nEtchings\nPhoto-based prints\nScreen prints\nAnd more!\n\nAll proceeds benefit art students: 80% of proceeds go to the individual artists\, and 20% goes to support the Print Studio (thereby back to printmaking students). This once-a-year event presents an extraordinary opportunity for students to display and sell their work to the public. The event also offers an opportunity to see the exceptional quality of the printmaking program and facilities at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Print Sale: Two-day event scheduled for Fri. June 5 & Sat. June 6 from 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.\n– Open Studios: One day only\, in conjunction with the Print Sale\, on Fri. June 5 noon–4:00 p.m.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit or ParkMobile\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/52nd-annual-print-sale-2/2026-06-05/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T160000
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SUMMARY:Spring 2026 Open Studios
DESCRIPTION:Art Department students exhibit their art work throughout studios and classrooms at the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center at UC Santa Cruz. The Open Studios event features student art work in a variety of media\, including:\n– Drawing\n– Painting\n– Print media\n– Sculpture\n– Photography\n– Environmental art\n– Electronic art/new media\n—\nADMISSION\nFREE and open to the public.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must get their permits in advance; attendants will only sell non-affiliate rates\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services.\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-2026-open-studios/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T132000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T142500
DTSTAMP:20260529T173530Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260529T173530Z
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SUMMARY:BME80G Seminar – Sheril Kirshenbaum\, "Science in Policymaking"
DESCRIPTION:Please note: Following this lecture\, the Genomics Institute’s Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion Committee will host a reception on the Baskin Engineering Lanai with Dr. Kirshenbaum where we can continue the discussion on how to effectively engage lawmakers and the public to value and support genomic science. \nPresenter: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum \nAbstract: Science shapes our world\, but meaningful policy engagement and understanding of research and innovation are critical if new advances are to reach their full potential. Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum will share her research on science in policymaking and reflect on her experiences serving as a science advisor in Congress. The talk will explore effective strategies for engaging policymakers and staff\, countering misinformation\, promoting evidence-based decision-making\, and strengthening the role of science in the policy process. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Sheril Kirshenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning scientist and author in the Office of Research and Innovation at Michigan State University\, and an assistant professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. Her research explores how senior policymakers in the U.S. government make decisions about science and she has worked in the U.S. Senate with Senator Gary Peters (MI) and Bill Nelson (FL). She also hosts and writes the PBS series Serving Up Science with WKAR about the global food system and its impact on the environment and our health. Kirshenbaum is the author of The Science of Kissing and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (with Chris Mooney)\, and co-founded the NGO Science Debate. \nHosted by: Professor Karen Miga\, BME Department
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/bme80g-seminar-sheril-kirshenbaum-science-in-policymaking/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T170000
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CREATED:20260420T224407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260420T224407Z
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SUMMARY:GCH190 Taskforce Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating the past year’s offerings of the Global and Community Health Task Force! There will be student ambassadors presenting on each topic\, along with faculty giving a sneak peek on their courses for next academic year. This will be a great way to both honor the research from this year and orient incoming seniors to what the Task Force is all about. \nThe showcase will be held at Stevenson Event Center on Friday\, June 5th from 3:00 – 5:00 PM. There will be hot and cold appetizers\, along with refreshments. It’s going to be a great time!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/gch190-taskforce-showcase/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center\, Stevenson Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T200000
DTSTAMP:20260519T165553Z
CREATED:20260519T165553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T165553Z
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SUMMARY:Almost Alumni Celebration for '26!
DESCRIPTION:2026 graduates\, come celebrate with us! Join us for a memorable evening at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Aloha Terrace complete with arcade passes\, live music\, giveaways from your college\, food\, champagne\, and more! \nThis annual tradition is hosted by the Office of Alumni Engagement to celebrate your accomplishments and welcome you to the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association. See you there! \nRegister for the Almost Alumni Celebration.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/almost-alumni-celebration-for-26/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T203000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T010229Z
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SUMMARY:Sluggers of the Lost Goal: Mud\, Slime\, and World Cup Madness!
DESCRIPTION:Watch robots compete in the Mechatronics Public Demo! Cheer on their sleep-deprived creators as they run their ‘bots through the field.Thrill to contest between autonomous robots navigating the field and score points by shooting ping-pong balls at each other and scoring the Golden Goal! Come see this exciting Sluggers of the Lost Goal competition! \nThe Mechatronics class is having their public demonstration of their final design project\, Sluggers of the Lost Goal: Mud\, Slime\, and World Cup Madness! \, Friday June 5th\, 2026 at 6:15 PM in the UCSC Kresge Auditorium. \nIn this thrilling competition\, teams from UCSC’s Mechatronics course will pit their autonomous robots against each other in an epic Sluggers of the Lost Goal Competition. Each robotic agent will navigate the field\, shoot ping pong balls at each other\, hide behind obstacles\, and try to score the golden goal. The champions will compete in a wild head to head tournament\, until one robot emerges victorious! The Public is welcome (and it is free)! \nThe public is invited (you might have to duck a few ping pong balls) and the teams will be on hand to explain their designs to one and all. Come see what these students have accomplished in 10 weeks and cheer on the competition. \nThere will be a live webcast starting at 6PM: www.twitch.tv/elkaim_ucsc (we will try\, might not work) \nFeel free to forward this to any and all that might be interested\, children (future engineers) especially welcome.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/sluggers-of-the-lost-goal-mud-slime-and-world-cup-madness/
LOCATION:Kresge College\, R-3 Suites\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Competition,Exhibits,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260605T213000
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SUMMARY:The Very Persistent Slug - AA/PI/SWANA Year-End Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Save the date and join the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center (AA/PIRC) on Friday\, June 5th from 6-9:30pm at the Merrill Cultural Center! Doors open at 5:30 p.m.\, with our ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. \nCome celebrate the graduating students who have contributed to the Asian American\, Pacific Islander\, and Southwest Asian & North African (AA/PI/SWANA) community at UCSC. \nOur ceremony will include faculty and student speakers\, awards\, FREE cultural stoles for graduates as they cross our stage\, and a food reception. \nInspired by Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar\, this year’s YEC theme is “The Very Persistent Slug” to celebrate the growth and determination of our graduating students. The Class of 2026 is nourished with the knowledge of their academic studies and life experiences\, grounded in community\, and is now breaking out of the slug-equivalent of their UCSC cocoons\, ready to take on the world. \nGraduates! Register at bit.ly/aapirc-yec26 to secure your FREE cultural stole!  \nTo volunteer\, please sign up at bit.ly/yec26-volunteer. \nYou 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. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/aa-pi-swana-year-end-ceremony/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260606T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260606T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260506T165627Z
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SUMMARY:Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
DESCRIPTION:Take a free\, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses\, hand-worked garden beds\, orchards\, row crop fields\, and children’s garden\, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance\, the farm also offers spectacular views of the Monterey Bay. Heavy rain cancels. \nRSVP
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/free-guided-tour-of-the-ucsc-farm/
LOCATION:UCSC Farm\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Tours
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260606T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260606T210000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225220Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260602T225220Z
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SUMMARY:UCSC Jazz Big Band
DESCRIPTION:Join the UC Santa Cruz Jazz Big Band for a spring concert\, East Meets West in Santa Cruz\, with original arrangements and guest artists Ashwin and Keshav Batish. Directed by Charles Hamilton. \n—\nADMISSION\n– General admission $0–12.\n– Free for UCSC students (ticket required).\n– Tickets available through Eventbrite only.\n– Follow the Music Dept on Eventbrite for notices and updates.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates may use a valid UCSC A-permit or daily scratcher rather than purchasing additional event parking.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services. \nEVENT FLYER\n \n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-jazz-big-band-spring-26/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260607T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260607T213000
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SUMMARY:Composer Siamak Barghi and UCSC Central Asian Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:The UCSC Central Asian Ensemble and guest artists perform Siamak Barghi’s compositions alongside traditional repertoire from Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Attend in person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz.\n– FREE and open to the public.\n– Doors open 30 min. before the scheduled event start time.\n—\nPARKING\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– $5 ParkMobile Arts Special Event flat rate; cash/credit via parking attendant when present in the lot; or by valid UCSC permit.\n– Before arriving to UCSC\, we recommend downloading the ParkMobile App on Google Play or Apple App Store and setting up a profile with license plate and payment information.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services. \ncomposert Siamak\n—\nEVENT FLYER \n\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/siamak-barghi-recital-ucsc-central-asian-ensemble/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T190000
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CREATED:20260526T184640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T184640Z
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SUMMARY:AI Trends in Project Management
DESCRIPTION:Build the skills organizations need most\nSkilled project and program managers remain in demand across many industries as organizations seek professionals who can plan strategically\, manage risks\, and deliver results on time and on budget. \nLearn what drives successful teams and projects\nDuring this interactive online session\, you’ll learn about key roles in project and program management and the essential skills—leadership\, communication\, and Agile practices—that help professionals stand out in today’s fast-moving workplace. \nYour speakers\nTim Bombosch and Bhawna Dua of the UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Project and Program Management program share their industry perspectives and highlight program courses that are designed to build practical project leadership\, communication\, and career advancement skills. \nClaim your seat today. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ai-trends-in-project-management/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260608T200000
DTSTAMP:20260519T215012Z
CREATED:20260518T230831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T215012Z
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SUMMARY:June Slugs and Steins with Distinguished Professor Andrew Fisher
DESCRIPTION:Opportunities to enhance groundwater recharge with net metering and levee setbacks\nAs climate change\, population growth\, and changing land use put increasing pressure on groundwater supplies\, communities are searching for smarter and more sustainable ways to manage water. One promising approach is “managed recharge” — guiding stormwater and excess surface water back into underground aquifers to replenish vital water reserves.\n\nIn this talk\, we’ll explore how managed recharge works\, why it matters\, and how it can benefit communities\, agriculture\, ecosystems\, and long-term water resilience. We’ll look at how heavy rain events and stormwater runoff — often viewed as problems — can become valuable opportunities to restore groundwater supplies when managed effectively and responsibly. \nThe talk will also highlight emerging research on where and how recharge projects can succeed without causing unintended environmental impacts\, along with a new incentive program designed to support landowners and tenants who help maintain these systems on their properties. We’ll consider how groundwater recharge efforts can connect with flood-risk reduction and river restoration strategies\, creating multi-benefit solutions for the future of water management. \n\nREGISTER
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/june-slugs-and-steins-with-professor-andrew-fisher/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260609T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260609T110000
DTSTAMP:20260608T203806Z
CREATED:20260608T203806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260608T203806Z
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SUMMARY:Volunteer at the UCSC Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:Volunteer Information Sessions at the Arboretum \nDo you love gardens and gardening? The UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden has a wonderful community of staff\, students\, and volunteers\, ready to welcome you. Opportunities include staffing our gift shop & retail nursery and working to care for our gardens and greenhouses.  \nTo learn more\, join us at one of our monthly information sessions. They go for about 45 minutes and include an easy walk through the gardens.  \nTo attend\, please fill out our simple volunteer interest form at the bottom of our volunteer webpage found here: https://arboretum.ucsc.edu/get-involved/become-a-volunteer/ \nIf you need a different day and/or have mobility issues please let us know in the “Notes” section of the Interest Form. \nThank You!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/volunteer-at-the-ucsc-arboretum/2026-06-09/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Volunteer
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260609T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260609T130000
DTSTAMP:20260526T194445Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260526T194445Z
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SUMMARY:Shen\, G. (CSE) - Library-Level Choreographic Programming
DESCRIPTION:Modern software increasingly relies on distributed systems to provide accessible\, scalable\,\nand reliable services. Choreographic programming brings a global perspective to distributed\nsystem development: programmers write a single program that describes the behavior of a\nwhole system\, and a compiler projects that global description into local programs run by each\nnode. By making distributed control flow explicit\, choreographic programming can rule out\nimportant classes of errors\, including deadlocks. This dissertation investigates library-level\nchoreographic programming\, an approach that embeds choreographic abstractions in existing\nhost languages rather than implementing them as standalone languages. The central claim\nis that the library approach can retain the safety and global reasoning principles of chore-\nographic programming while taking advantage of the host language’s features\, tools\, and\necosystem. First\, we present HasChor\, a first-of-its-kind library-level choreographic program-\nming language in Haskell\, built using freer monads. Next\, we generalize the design underlying\nHasChor to algebraic effects\, giving library-level implementations in Agda and OCaml. Fi-\nnally\, we present Parkour\, a backward-compatible extension to HasChor that adds a construct\nfor expressing parallel behavior in choreographies. Together\, these systems show that chore-\nographic programming can be implemented\, generalized\, and extended at the library level\,\nmaking global programming techniques available within practical host-language settings. \nEvent Host: Gan Shen\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Computer Science & Engineering  \nAdvisor: Lindsey Kuper  \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93790633483?pwd=Jg8JlISsrwjLBaQIi1KdHk36bNMIv7.1 \nPasscode: 902041 \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/shen-g-cse-library-level-choreographic-programming/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Kim\, C. (CSE)- Toward Adaptive Graph Processing and Fault-Tolerant Agentic Inference on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
DESCRIPTION:Edge computing and distributed AI systems increasingly operate under heterogeneous resources\, dynamic workloads\, and frequent failures\, requiring both adaptivity and fault tolerance for efficient execution. In heterogeneous edge clusters\, nodes differ significantly in CPU throughput\, memory capacity\, and network bandwidth\, while modern distributed GPU clusters supporting agentic LLM inference must recover large amounts of runtime state under routine failures. This dissertation addresses these challenges through two systems: Zsiga\, an adaptive distributed graph processing system for heterogeneous edge clusters\, and Forte\, a fault-tolerant KV cache recovery system for distributed agentic LLM inference. \nZsiga improves connected component computation through capacity-aware graph partitioning and runtime-adaptive boundary migration\, reducing execution time by up to 90.9% while eliminating out-of-memory failures under heterogeneous resource constraints. Forte addresses KV cache recovery for long-running agentic inference workloads\, where failures can erase accumulated reasoning trajectories and tool interaction histories. Forte exploits the observation that not all KV blocks are equally critical\, introducing criticality-aware erasure coding\, domain-diverse placement\, and prioritized foreground recovery to enable efficient recovery under correlated failures. Experimental results show that Forte is the only evaluated scheme that successfully resumes execution under correlated domain failures\, reducing foreground stall by 89.7% and end-to-end recovery latency by 50.6–58.9% at 2.0$\times$ memory overhead. Together\, these systems demonstrate how adaptivity and fault tolerance can improve the efficiency and resilience of distributed systems in heterogeneous and failure-prone environments. \nEvent Host: Chaeeun Kim\, Ph.D. Student\, Computer Science & Engineering \nAdvisor: Chen Qian & Liting Hu \nZoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/9863615188?pwd=kTka0aZXJ070tor1EKvrt3X6AveBRp.1 \nPasscode:  cG5SL8 \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/kim-c-cse-toward-adaptive-graph-processing-and-fault-tolerant-agentic-inference-on-heterogeneous-distributed-systems/
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SUMMARY:Research Lunch & Learn: Cayuse Animal Oversight (AO) walkthrough
DESCRIPTION:Join the IACUC staff team as they introduce Cayuse Animal Oversight (AO)\, our newly developed electronic system for managing IACUC submissions\, reviews\, and protocol oversight. This session will provide a high-level overview of key features of the new system designed to support our animal care program\, including a demonstration of protocol submission workflows\, committee review processes\, and PI group management. \nJoin us on June 10\, 2026\, 12-1 p.m. \nJoin: Zoom link for this session.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/research-lunch-learn-cayuseao/
CATEGORIES:Training
LOCATION:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/research-lunch-learn-cayuseao/
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SUMMARY:What can you do with data?
DESCRIPTION:Data Analysts Are Still in Demand\nAs organizations across industries rely more on data-driven decision-making\, skilled data analysts continue to be highly sought after. While the job market is more competitive—especially for entry-level roles—professionals with in-demand skills like SQL\, Python\, data visualization\, and AI-assisted analytics stand out. \nYour speaker\nJoin Parthasarathy Padmanabhan\, M.B.A.\, principal software engineer at one of Silicon Valley’s leading technology companies\, as he offers insights into the field and his upcoming courses: \nDashboards and Data Visualization | June 22\nPython for Data Analysis | July 25 \nKeep learning\nExplore our course catalog to see the full course lineup. \n  \nClaim your seat. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/what-can-you-do-with-data/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:Ruth Ozeki – The Typing Lady
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)\, who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we almost lived\, the people we can’t quite forget\, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned. Ozeki will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler at this event. \nIn this spirited and emotionally resonant collection\, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story\, exploring childhood ambition\, youthful desire\, midlife reinvention\, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit\, warmth\, and deep humanity\, she brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals\, evolving identities\, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life. \n \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the bestselling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is a professor emerita of English language and literature at Smith College\, where she was the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Ruth Ozeki \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-ozeki-the-typing-lady/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz
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