Events

May 2026

• Thu 28

  • 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Yang, D. (CSE) – Inner Monologue: a Pathway to Human-Like Reasoning for Complex Tasks

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Exhibit Opening Event! “Histories of Local Productions from the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Archive”

  • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Panel on Affordable Housing and Basic Needs for Graduate Students

  • 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Concert at the Cafe

  • 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    Educational Therapy Program Info Session

  • 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

• Fri 29

  • 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

    Virtual Event

    Zhou, K. (CSE) – Toward Safer Frontier AI: From Evaluation and Red-Teaming to Alignment and Oversight

  • 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

    Grad Cap Decorating with the ERCs

  • 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

    Virtual Event

    Qureshi, A. (ECE) – ISoC: A Universal Impedance Spectroscopy Instrument-on-Chip in SKY130 130 nm CMOS

  • 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

    Virtual Event

    Insurance, Risk, and Resilience in a Changing World

    Free
  • 1:20 pm – 2:25 pm

    BME80G Seminar – Katherine Bonini, “Rethinking Familial Risk in Genomic Medicine: Ethical Approaches to Cascade Screening”

  • 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Zhu, R. (ECE) – From Neuromorphic Principles to Efficient Neural Language Architectures

  • 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

    Stanley Flatté Memorial Lecture: Chaos, black holes, and quantum mechanics

    FREE
  • 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm

    Making an Exoneree Showcase

    FREE and open to the public
  • 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

    SOAR— Los Mejicas Grupo Folklórico

    TICKETS REQUIRED; General Admission

• Sat 30

  • 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

    Rooted in Identity — Mixed Identity Retreat

  • 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm

    Herbs and Tending the Inner Garden

  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Office Hours Under the Sea

  • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

    Arts Staff Live!

    FREE and open to the public
  • 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Go Bananas! Carnival