Fundraiser: Film Screening of "The Last Class"
2025-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre
The UC Santa Cruz Education Department is hosting a screening of the film “The Last Class” at the Del Mar on September 30th. The Last Class documents Robert Reich’s last time teaching his UC Berkeley class on wealth and poverty and has been called Reich’s “love letter to education.”

This is currently the only local screening of “The Last Class.”

All net proceeds from this event will go directly to support student teachers in the UC Santa Cruz Master of Education/Teaching Credential program. We are raising funds to help all student teachers complete their preparation and enter their first classrooms in the fall of 2026 in the face of state funding budget cuts.

Hosted by the Education Department with support from the Teaching & Learning Center and the Institute for Social Transformation.

Drop-In Figure Drawing
2025-09-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center, Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints).
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ADVISORIES
– These events contain mature content and nudity.
– Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed.
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ADMISSION
– FREE and open to the public
– UCSC Art Department Room L-101
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
This series occurs weekly on Tuesday evenings during fall quarter, including the following:
– Tue., Sep. 30, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 7, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 14, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 21, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Oct. 28, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 4, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 18, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
– Tue., Nov. 25, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Additional dates to be announced for winter and spring quarter.
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PARKING
– Parking by permit or ParkMobile.
– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.
– 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.
– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).
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This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.

Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
2025-10-01 12:00, 2025-10-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Jack Baskin Engineering, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
During the chaos of a quarter, is it hard to find time to reflect and improve as an instructor? Would you like to be a part of an inclusive, supportive group of engineering instructors who do this in community? ETC is for sharing teaching experiences, classroom ideas, research on learning, and methods that support instructors and students. All are welcome, and lunch is provided. Please reach out to Jenny Quynn with questions.

Make Your Resume Awesome!
2025-10-01 13:00
Does your resume need a little help? Are you unsure about where to start, or about how to make your resume absolutely fantastic? Join us for this 30-minute workshop to learn about cutting-edge resume best practices, followed by an optional 30 minutes of "resume work time" where you can meet individually with a coach to review your resume!

We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at csuccess@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-4420 as soon as possible.

YOU BELONG HERE
Programs and services 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. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

CSE Colloquium: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems
2025-10-02 11:00 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Presenter: Hyeran Jeon, UC Merced
Title: Enabling scalable GPU computing via efficient virtual memory systems
Abstract: GPUs have become one of the most important accelerators of various emerging workloads. While the massive parallelism makes the GPUs one of the most favorable compute engines, the limited on-device memory capacity hinders their wider adoption. Virtual memory systems have been helpful in transparently expanding memory space to host CPU memory and peer GPU memories, as GPUs can access data through simple pointer sharing regardless of the physical location of that data. However, as GPU architecture evolves and the volume of data increases significantly, the virtual memory systems themselves become one of the critical performance bottlenecks. This talk will explore the perils and opportunities of virtual memory systems under emerging GPU architectures.
The first part of the talk will show that the limited IOMMU bandwidth is one of the primary performance limiters in multi-chip-module GPUs (MCM-GPUs) due to the increasing concurrency of multiple GPU chiplets. To fundamentally reduce the translation demands, the talk will introduce a new way of page mapping that effectively replaces page-table-based virtual memory translations with simple calculation-based translations. The second part of the talk will focus on GPUs that have internal GMMUs. The talk will first show that naive GMMU translation bandwidth increase will incur significant area overhead. Then, we show that one of the existing but highly underutilized accelerators integrated in the GPU die, the ray tracing cores, can be repurposed for virtual memory translation.
Bio: Hyeran Jeon is an associate professor at the University of California, Merced. Hyeran's main research interests lie in high-performance, energy-efficient, and robust computer architecture and systems. Her research lab (MoCA Lab) has been sponsored by the government and industry, including National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission, Xilinx, NVIDIA, and Ampere Computing. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. She has industry experience as an intern at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and AMD Research, and as a systems software engineer at Samsung Electronics. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the USC Viterbi dean’s doctoral fellowship.
Hosted by: Professor Mohsen Lesani
Location: Engineering 2, E2-180
*Refreshments such as coffee and pastries will be provided.

Moss Adams x Baker Tilly Info Session
2025-10-02 11:00 | Bay Tree Building, Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Interested in a career in public accounting? Come chat with our Tax and Audit professionals about our 2026 internship opportunities and learn more about life at Moss Adams x Baker Tilly! Our 2026 internship opportunities are available for current seniors and juniors pursuing a CPA license.
Stop by anytime between 11:00AM – 1:00PM and enjoy some pizza with us!
In a transformative move, Moss Adams and Baker Tilly have merged to create the sixth largest CPA advisory firm in the country. The combination brings together our industry expertise, complementary locations, and shared commitment to client success to redefine accounting and advisory services for the middle market. With our go-to-market power, laser focus on clients, and best-in-class talent, we’re poised to meet the growing complexity facing middle market businesses, families, and individuals.

If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at csuccess@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-4420 as soon as possible.

YOU BELONG HERE
Programs and services 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. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

BME 280B Seminar: Computational Precision Health & Genomic Diversity
2025-10-02 11:40 - 13:15 | Physical Sciences Building, Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Presenter: Dr. Alex Ioannidis, BME Assistant Professor, UCSC
Description: N/A
Bio: Alex Ioannidis graduated summa cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard and completed an M.Phil in Computational Biology in the Dept. of Applied Math & Theoretical Physics at Cambridge. He earned his Ph.D. in Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford and M.S. in Mgt. Science & Engineering (Numerical Optimization concentration). Prior to this, he worked on novel superconducting computing logic and quantum computing at Northrop Grumman (Advanced Technology Lab).

Alex’s teachings has included machine learning algorithms and data science courses in the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford, AI in healthcare at Stanford Medical School, and computational biology in the Dept. of Biomolecular Engineering (BME) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research group focuses on computational techniques and deep learning methods for genomics & precision health with a particular focus on populations in Oceania and Latin America (spotlight article).
Hosted by: Professor Josh Stuart, BME Department

Location: PSB-240

How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP
2025-10-02 13:30 | Social Sciences 1, Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, to validate AI product ideas and build towards defensible MVP. In this invited talk, you will learn:
The "AI Product Opportunity Canvas"
A proprietary framework to assess AI product ideas, inspired by proven processes from Google and successful AI labs
5-Step Playbook to Land an AI-Native MVP
How to evaluate user problems, craft a compelling AI-native value proposition, design for data and defensibility
Real AI-Native Product Success Cases
How AI product leaders and founders are finding the market niche in industries such as healthcare, legal and finance
How to Build Fast Feedback Loops with User and Human Evals
How to set up tight user feedback loops and leverage Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) as your secret validation weapon
Invited Speaker: Roger Jin
ex-Product Lead @Google DeepMind, 2x Founder, AI Strategy Coach
Roger is an ICF-certified coach and a seasoned product leader who has operated at the frontier of AI development and in the trenches of building venture-backed companies.
As Head of Product at Google DeepMind, Roger was a founding member of the product team that launched Gemini, Google's flagship generative AI product. Before that, Roger led product teams at Amazon Alexa, pushing the boundaries of customer experience for millions of users.
Roger has also co-founded two AI startups, raising over $20M in venture capital and scaling them to a combined $80M+ in annual revenue. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP
2025-10-02 13:30 - 14:30 | Social Sciences 1, Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, to validate AI product ideas and build towards defensible MVP. In this invited talk, you will learn:
The “AI Product Opportunity Canvas”
A proprietary framework to assess AI product ideas, inspired by proven processes from Google and successful AI labs
5-Step Playbook to Land an AI-Native MVP
How to evaluate user problems, craft a compelling AI-native value proposition, design for data and defensibility
Real AI-Native Product Success Cases
How AI product leaders and founders are finding the market niche in industries such as healthcare, legal and finance
How to Build Fast Feedback Loops with User and Human Evals
How to set up tight user feedback loops and leverage Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) as your secret validation weapon
Invited Speaker: Roger Jin
ex-Product Lead @Google DeepMind, 2x Founder, AI Strategy Coach
Roger is an ICF-certified coach and a seasoned product leader who has operated at the frontier of AI development and in the trenches of building venture-backed companies.
As Head of Product at Google DeepMind, Roger was a founding member of the product team that launched Gemini, Google’s flagship generative AI product. Before that, Roger led product teams at Amazon Alexa, pushing the boundaries of customer experience for millions of users.
Roger has also co-founded two AI startups, raising over $20M in venture capital and scaling them to a combined $80M+ in annual revenue. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
Location: Social Science, Room 110

Dismantling the Deportation Machine...
2025-10-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Bay Tree Building, Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
Dismantling the Deportation Machine: A Conversation on Migration, Expulsion, and Xenophobia
Join Carlos Martinez as he moderates a powerful discussion with Megan Carney, Heide Castañeda, and Gilberto Rosas on the urgent U.S. and global trends shaping the politics of migration, deportation, and xenophobia.
As authoritarianism and xenophobia intensify globally, this distinguished panel will offer critical insights into the shifting terrain of border enforcement, deportation policies, and immigrant solidarity. Bringing together diverse expertise, the speakers will help us make sense of how these dynamics are unfolding both at home and across the world. In conversation, they will not only examine the harms of exclusionary policies and hateful rhetoric but also highlight strategies and practices of resistance, care, and collective organizing.
These scholars are coming together to support the development of Carlos Martinez’s in-progress manuscript, Captive States: Migration and Expulsion on the Carceral Frontier. This event and subsequent workshop are sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation’s Emerging Scholar Manuscript Workshops.

Dr. Megan Carney, Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Arizona, Invited Scholar
Dr. Heide Castañeda, Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, Invited Scholar
Dr. Gilberto Rosas, Chair & Professor, Latina/Latino Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Don’t miss this chance to engage with leading voices at the forefront of one of the most urgent conversations of our time.

Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
2025-10-03 12:00 - 17:00 | Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom – contested but essential – to move across it.
The exhibition draws on voices across time and perspective that frame the American landscape as more than a stage for beauty and awe. For Chief Satanta of the Kiowa Nation, to roam the land freely was life itself. For N. Scott Momaday, land must be “believed to be seen.” For Eliot Porter, light and reflection imparted magic to Glen Canyon’s waters. For Wallace Stegner, saving natural places meant saving fragments of our collective sanity. For Brook M. Thompson, the Klamath River is recognized with personhood. Alongside these perspectives, Paul’s images press us to see public land not as scenery to extract or aestheticize, but as sustenance and history. Land is alive and contested. To see closely is not to linger on a romanticized vision of the American landscape, but to reckon with responsibility: how we safeguard access, how we imagine “wildness,” and how we hold space for futures beyond our own. For Paul, this exhibition is a call for students to encounter land and light firsthand and let those encounters be their teachers.
Opening Reception
October 4, 2025
1-4pm
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Join us every Friday for Art Fridays.
No experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided.

Sep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards
Oct 3 Souvenir Keychains
Oct 10 Stamp Magnets
Oct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases
Oct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts
Oct 31 Abstract Felt Collages
Nov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons
Nov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials
Nov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday
Nov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage

Please note that the date and the project is subject to change.

Environmental Health and Justice: Successes and Future Challenges
2025-10-03 12:30 | Stevenson Event Center, Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Join UCSC's Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department and the Global and Community Health Program for this special symposium!
See agenda here.
Please join us for this collaborative, interdisciplinary symposium to highlight and celebrate the important work being done in Global and Community Health at UC Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature talks on environmental determinants of health by faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Community speaker, Brian Roeder of the Never Again Moss Landing community group that formed in response to the Vistra Moss Landing Battery Fire will speak as well as environmental health luminary keynote speaker, Brenda Eskenazi from UC Berkeley.
Please join us for a reception at 6:00 – 7:30 PM.
Co-sponsored by the METX Department and Global and Community Health Program

Envisioning HSI: Nurturing Sustainable Institutional Change
2025-10-03 13:00 | Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room, 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Join the HSI Initiatives Team for an afternoon of reflection, collaboration, and community at UC Santa Cruz’s Fall 2025 Envisioning HSI Session. As a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution, UCSC is committed to creating sustainable systems and structures that strengthen our mission in research, teaching, and service.

This session will bring together changemakers from across campus to nurture shared strengths, explore opportunities, and co-create pathways for collective action.

Date: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 (RSVP by Sept. 26)

Time: 1:00–4:30 PM (doors open at 12:45 PM with a special performance by Mariachi Eterno de UCSC)

Location: Nine/Lewis College Multi-Purpose Room

The event will conclude with a brief reception featuring performances by Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas.

The NEXTies: Earth & Sea
2025-10-03 17:30 | Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
Get ready for an unforgettable evening at our NEXTies spin off event: The NEXTies Earth: & Sea! Join us for a night of celebration, featuring delicious drinks, captivating performances, and the presentation of awards to the environmental pioneers who’ve made Santa Cruz a leader in climate resilience. From innovative waste reduction solutions to groundbreaking scientific achievements, it’s time to recognize the progress we’ve made.
Enjoy food and drinks available for purchase, live music, and awards that highlight the incredible work of our local community. This is a dressy event, so wear that outfit you’ve been waiting to debut and bring a jacket to enjoy the stunning ocean views from our terrace. We can’t wait to see you on the red carpet!

Movie on the Lawn
2025-10-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Oakes Lower Lawn, 498-898 Oakes Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
As Slug Start continues, join us for a cozy evening under the stars on Oakes Lawn at 8 PM with a screening of Us. Kick back with free popcorn, candy, and plenty of other snacks while you enjoy the film. It’s a fun, laid-back way to relax, connect, and meet your fellow Slugs.

You 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.
To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.

Campo-Sano Climate Action Conference
2025-10-04 09:00 - 17:00 | Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room, 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Campo-Sano Climate Action: A Regional Conference on California Farmworkers and the Environment will be co-hosted on October 4th, 2025, by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and community partners
The conference will address the challenges of resilience amid the impacts of climate changes and the many other compounding risks farmworkers face. We will first review lessons learned from developing practical remedies and health promoter training designed to protect farming communities. Next, we will involve all attendees in deliberating ways to scale up these protective efforts and make them sustainable amid mounting social and political challenges.
Program Description
The daylong conference will start with a morning session including testimonies of health promoters from local community-based organizations (CBO’s) and UCSC students. The frontline community health workers will describe the challenges they face in trying to protect farmworkers from environmental stressors in a context that is also overshadowed by chronic but intensifying political and economic vulnerabilities.
A report will also be delivered by faculty on the two-year effort supported by funding from a Californian Climate Action grant to develop the Campo-Sano data app. This app is designed to inform local farm communities on climate related risks from exposures to high temperatures, flooding, wildfire air pollution, groundwater contamination and other risks. We will showcase how this application can be used on mobile phones to support farmworkers who want to report their experience of these risks anonymously to state agencies and legal advocacy groups.
A keynote luncheon presentation will be followed by a dialogue between representatives of state agencies and local community-based partners. Discussion panels and breakout sessions will engage these CBO’s and state agency officials to explore the extension of workplace protections for farmworkers and further regulation enforcement, as well as the possible scale-up of Campo-Sano trainings across the state. This dialogue is critical in the face of the federal government’s retreat from protecting agricultural workers, their employers and the food security they support for our wider community.

Fall is for Planting!
2025-10-04 10:00 | Arboretum, 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden.
The UC Master Gardeners will host a pop-up booth to give information and answer questions about the benefits of planting in the fall and growing Mediterranean climate plants.
We know how hard it is to resist a beautiful blossom in the springtime, but fall really is the best time for planting. By planting in the fall, your plants will benefit from winter rains, shorter days, and cooler temperatures. This means they’ll be well established come springtime, and you’ll be able to enjoy the blossoms in your own garden.
Norrie’s features plants from the Mediterranean regions of South Africa, Australia, Chile, and California. At this pop-up, we will be selling a rare native iris for the first time. We will also have special offerings of Dudleya varieties grown here at the Arboretum from wild, collected seed.

Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day
2025-10-04 12:00
This school year, PoCSC is implementing a new quarterly field day program where each quarter we come together for a fun, community-bonding day of activities, food, and conversation. This series is an informal educational opportunity for the UCSC community to engage with each other while learning about different themes within environmentalism, such as inclusive sustainability.

Through this Fall Field Day, we will celebrate the new school year, fall birthdays, and bring awareness to PoCSC’s 10th anniversary. We aim to educate on how both global and personal celebrations can create immense amounts of waste, and we will offer ways you can be more sustainable within your own home or at events like music festivals, national holidays, and more. Come to Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day for a meal, birthday cake, live music, bouquet making, cyanotype printed birthday cards, birthday crowns, and more!

Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day
2025-10-04 12:00 - 14:30 | Social Sciences Lawn, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, 95064

Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition
2025-10-04 14:00 | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range of media. Grenier is both inspired by the beauty of life closely examined and horrified by man’s trajectory. She works from a large mental catalog of imagery and refuses to stick to one style
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ADMISSION
– FREE and open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates.
– Gallery hours are Mon.–Sat., noon–5:00 p.m.
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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
– Ongoing exhibition is Sept. 30–Oct. 25, 2025.
– Opening celebration is Oct. 4, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
– Additional events and information may be announced here
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PARKING
– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.
– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.
– Refer to TAPS for more parking information.
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This program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.

Spotlight Santa Cruz - Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at City Lights Theater
2025-10-04 20:00
Use the Banana Slug alumni promo code "SLUGS" to purchase discounted tickets to City Lights Theater Company's October 4 performance of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, directed by UCSC alumna Caitlin Lawrence Papp (Crown '24, M.A. '25, theater arts).

Caitlin will be available to meet the UC Santa Cruz alumni in attendance at an afterparty hosted by City Lights where audience members are invited to check out the set up close, chat with the artists, and enjoy refreshments chosen in the spirit of the play.

ABOUT DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS
Take Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire story and mix it up in the style of Mel Brooks and Monty Python. You’ve got Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, a lightning-fast, gender-bending comedy featuring lots of wordplay and six actors playing over a dozen roles. Penned by veteran comedy writers Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen, this sexy sendup of the classic takes us from the English countryside to Dracula’s Transylvania castle. When her sister Mina is struck by a disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé enlist the help of female vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Could the answer lie with the dangerous—and seriously hot—Count Dracula?

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Caitlin Lawrence Papp (Crown '24, M.A. '25, theater arts) is a local actress, dramaturg, and director, excited to be back directing at City Lights Theater Company, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. She was recently in CLTC's production of Head Over Heels in the role of Gynecia. She previously directed Making God Laugh and several podcasts on the City Lights podcast channel, including Much Ado About Nothing. Some other directing credits include The Revolutionists, The Little Mermaid, Sound of Music, Annie, The Music Man, and The Addams Family.

ABOUT CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY
Since 1982, City Lights Theater Company has been inspiring and challenging audiences with a host of plays and musicals, many of them fresh new works. The company’s downtown San Jose theater is a bustling space that attracts artists, educators, students, and playgoers alike.

TRANSYLVANIA AFTER DARK
Join the free virtual talkback "Transylvania After Dark" on October 7 at 7 p.m. where you can step behind the velvet curtain with director Caitlin Lawrence Papp (Crown '24, M.A. '25, theater arts) and members of the cast.

Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
2025-10-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Hay Barn, 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, United States
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.

RSVP

ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems
2025-10-06 10:40 | Engineering 2, Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Description: The adoption of new types of generation and loads, such as data centers, small modular reactors, and electric vehicles servicing equipment presents many challenges for system operators who are tasked with maintaining the safety and efficiency of the power grid. New consumption patterns, IoT connectivity of these devices, and emerging control paradigms, make it possible for these devices to be utilized to disrupt the operation of the power system. In this talk, I will discuss our past research efforts at the intersection of control theory, power systems, and AI to model, simulate, and mitigate cyber threats in the electric grid. I will close with a discussion of contemporary issues in power systems which will need to be addressed by the research and industrial community in the near future.

Bio: Dr. Daniel Arnold is a Lead Power Systems Engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 and was an ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 2016-2017. From 2017 to 2025 he was a Research Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His interests are at the intersection of the fields of control theory, optimization, machine learning, and power systems. His recent work focuses on the use of these techniques for cybersecurity of the electric power system and other critical infrastructure.

Hosted by: Professor Soumya Bose, ECE Department

Zoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=[REDACTED]

AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF
2025-10-06 11:00
Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders, investors, innovators and top researchers converge to explore the technologies shaping tomorrow. Details and reservations are available at https://partiful.com/e/OtqKL1z4hvYDLMk0uP8w

Printing Party in McHenry Library
2025-10-06 12:00 - 13:30 | McHenry Library, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
On Monday, 10/6, Special Collections and Archives is bringing our BookBeetle (a mini replica Gutenberg-era common press) into the 3rd floor hallway of McHenry Library for a printing party!

Participants will:✔️ learn the mechanics of early printing in the West✔️ decorate the cover of a notebook that’s yours to take home!

Very casual; just drop by! It takes less than a minute, and trust us–it’s fun!

CM Seminar - Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space
2025-10-06 12:30 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Presenter: Max Kreminski

About: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these tools support user creativity continues to grow. In this talk, I discuss several related approaches to making sense of user interactions with creativity support tools. I focus in particular on how AI-supported evaluation methods can help us illuminate a design tool’s expressive range; trace user trajectories through design space; and potentially even intervene to shape these trajectories while the interaction is still unfolding.

Bio: Max Kreminski is a human-computer interaction researcher focused on designing expressive and approachable computational systems to support creative work and play. Their research has been featured in outlets such as The New Yorker, New Scientist, and The Verge; published and exhibited at top HCI and AI conferences, including CHI, UIST, and NeurIPS; and honored with a variety of awards, including the Best Paper award at the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition. Max currently directs the Storytelling Lab at Midjourney and previously served as an assistant professor at Santa Clara University.

Hosted by: Professor Christina Chung
IMPORTANT: There will be a remote viewing room at UCSC Campus, in E2-280.
ALSO IMPORTANT: There will be lunch served at both locations.

Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space
2025-10-06 12:30 - 13:30 | Silicon Valley Campus, 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, United States
Presented by Max Kreminski

Description:
It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these tools support user creativity continues to grow. In this talk, I discuss several related approaches to making sense of user interactions with creativity support tools. I focus in particular on how AI-supported evaluation methods can help us illuminate a design tool’s expressive range; trace user trajectories through design space; and potentially even intervene to shape these trajectories while the interaction is still unfolding.Bio:
Max Kreminski is a human-computer interaction researcher focused on designing expressive and approachable computational systems to support creative work and play. Their research has been featured in outlets such as The New Yorker, New Scientist, and The Verge; published and exhibited at top HCI and AI conferences, including CHI, UIST, and NeurIPS; and honored with a variety of awards, including the Best Paper award at the ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition. Max currently directs the Storytelling Lab at Midjourney and previously served as an assistant professor at Santa Clara University.Hosted by: Professor Christina Chung
When: Monday, October 6 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM
Location: IN-PERSON @ SVC 3212 — viewing room @ UCSC Main Campus, E2-280. LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED AT BOTH LOCATIONS! Faculty and students are highly encouraged to attend.
Zoom info: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98638310898?pwd=[REDACTED]
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Western Regional Hub: Undergraduate Success Group Meeting
2025-10-06 14:00 - 15:00
Members of the hub’s working group focused on Undergradutate student success will meet to share ideas and strategize.
If you would like to be involved in the hub’s work, please contact Richard at riraygoz@ucsc.edu

AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling
2025-10-06 16:00 | Jack Baskin Engineering, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064
Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sonoma State University

Description: Many mathematical models of traffic are macroscopic in nature, meaning that they model the relationship between average speed, density, and flow along a road or freeway segment. One of the fundamental relationships connecting these three quantities is the flow-density relationship, for which various models have been proposed since the 1930s. In this talk, we will discuss some of the more commonly used models of the flow-density relationship, as well as how those models are used within the contexts of stop-and-go congestion, catastrophe scenarios, and freeway infrastructure assessment.

Bio: Dr. Martha Shott is an applied mathematician and professor at Sonoma State University. She received her B.S. in Mathematics from Davidson College in North Carolina and subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Davis. While much of her research continues from her dissertation related to traffic flow modeling, Dr. Shott also works with undergraduate students on ecological modeling. Outside of academia, she enjoys running, cooking, playing board games, and adapting 80s pop music to be about her pets.

Hosted by: Professor Julie Simons
