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SUMMARY:Weatherwax\, K. (CM) - LoFi to X and Y: Background Media Use as Colloquial Assistive Technology for Neurodivergent People
DESCRIPTION:Research in media psychology has often framed background media as a distraction that undermines performance. Such perspectives rely on narrow\, output-oriented definitions of success and overlook the emotional\, mental\, social\, and environmental needs that shape how people actually work. They also fail to account for neurodivergent experiences\, ignoring the diverse ways people engage with media in daily life.\n   \nThis dissertation uses a critical disability and neurodiversity lens to examine background media\, with a focus on LoFi as a commonly used exemplar\, as a form of colloquial assistive technology. Drawing on interviews and large-scale online discourse\, I show how LoFi is not primarily used to increase productivity\, but to manage affect\, sustain attention\, and reduce cognitive or sensory overload. Users describe it as a supportive presence—helping them transition into work\, recover from fatigue\, and feel accompanied in otherwise isolating contexts.\n   \nThese findings challenge dominant narratives about distraction and media use. Rather than being passively consumed\, background media is deliberately shaped and adopted as a source of support. This work rethinks what counts as assistive technology\, foregrounds the self-directed practices of neurodivergent people\, and offers design directions for systems that legitimize and extend such strategies. \n  \nEvent Host: Kevin Weatherwax\, Ph.D Candidate\, Computational Media  \nAdvisor: Kate Ringland
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/weatherwax-k-cm-lofi-to-x-and-y-background-media-use-as-colloquial-assistive-technology-for-neurodivergent-people/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Ph.D. Presentations
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SUMMARY:Talking Tales of the Undead
DESCRIPTION:Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History)\, Renée Fox (The Necromantics)\, and Kimberly J. Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires\, ghouls\, zombies and other undead monsters in literature\, theater\, and pop culture in this free panel at the Downtown Branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library (224 Church St.\, downtown Santa Cruz). Chemers and Fox direct the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, while Lau will be giving one of the keynote addresses at the upcoming Festival of Monsters (October 15–18).\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n—\nAUDIENCE ADVISORIES\n– Mature themes and content\n—\nFUTURE FESTIVAL OF MONSTERS EVENTS \n– Wed. Oct. 15\, 5:30 p.m\, Museum of Art & History (MAH): David Livingstone Smith Keynote \n– Thurs. Oct. 16\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Kim Lau keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Jeffery Jerome Cohen keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 8:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m\, DARC 108 (No longer at the UCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn): Monsters Ball\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 11:00 a.m\, Bookshop Santa Cruz: “Oh! The Horror” Writers Panel\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m\, Atlantis Fantasyworld: Cole Lemke\, Horror Comic Artist \n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 6:00 p.m\, Game Santa Cruz: “Blood on the Clocktower”\n— \n This program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/tales-of-the-undead/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Technical Interview Process at Google
DESCRIPTION:Curious of how the technical interview process at Google works? Are you gearing up for technical interviews this fall? Whether you’re Interested in their internships or full-time roles\, you may want to brush up on those interview skills. Join us for mock questions and tips!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/understanding-the-technical-interview-process-at-google/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Resume Workshop with Google
DESCRIPTION:Are you submitting applications for internships and full-time opportunities this semester? Join us for this resume workshop to find out how the format\, structure\, and detailed content of your resume could maximize your chances of receiving an interview opportunity with Google. Don't forget to bring a copy of your most updated resume with you!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/resume-workshop-with-google/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-10-08/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Research Lunch & Learn: Research-enabling agreements (MTAs\, DUAs\, and more)
DESCRIPTION:Join Jeff Jackson\, Director of Innovation Transfer\, and team on October 8\, 12-1 p.m.\, as they discuss research-enabling agreements including Material Transfer\, Data Transfer and Use\, Nondisclosure Agreements\, and Unfunded Collaboration Agreements. Speakers will share which agreements are appropriate in which situations\, how to initiate review of such agreements\, campus process\, best practices for you to help make things more efficient\, and potential pitfalls.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/research-lunch-learn-research-enabling-agreements-mtas-duas-and-more/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Training
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SUMMARY:UCSC Community Connections Fall Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Join UC Santa Cruz Community Connections on Wednesday\, October 8\, for our Fall Gathering. Our first general meeting of the academic year\, it’s an opportunity to meet old and new friends\, share a potluck lunch\, learn more about the organization\, investigate our array of interest groups\, and join our group. The organization is open to campus and community members. Upcoming meetings on November 5 and February 4 are speaker meetings that begin at 11:30 am. \nMeetings are held at the beautiful Arboretum\, Horticulture Building II Classroom. Detailed directions to the Arboretum can be found on the Arboretum website. \nOctober 8 11:00 – 1:00 Interest Group signups at 11:00 & Fiat Musica performance \nAttendees are asked to contribute to the meeting lunches\, see “Potluck instructions” except for this October 8th meeting where the lunch will be provided by the Board.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ucsc-community-connections-fall-gathering/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:CSE Colloquium: Can Great Programmers Be Taught?
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: John Ousterhout\, Stanford University \nAbstract: People have been programming computers for more than 80 years\, but there is little agreement on how to design software or even what a good design looks like. As a community\, we talk a lot about tools and processes\, but hardly at all about design. In this talk I will describe my recent work to identify and communicate a set of software design principles\, including a new software design course at Stanford that is taught more like an English writing seminar than a traditional programming class\, and a book on software design\, which is based on the concepts from the class. I will also present a few of the design principles\, such as "classes should be deep" and "general-purpose classes are deeper." \nBio: John Ousterhout is the Bosack Lerner Professor of Computer Science\, Emeritus at Stanford University. His prior positions include 14 years in industry\, where he founded two companies (Scriptics and Electric Cloud)\, preceded by 14 years as Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley.  He is author of the book "A Philosophy of Software Design"\, co-creator of the Raft consensus protocol\, and creator of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit.  Ousterhout received a BS degree in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received numerous awards\, including the ACM Software System Award\, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award\, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award\, and the U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. \nHosted by: Professor Mohsen Lesani \n*Refreshments such as coffee and pastries will be provided.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cse-colloquium-can-great-programmers-be-taught/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Drop-In Figure Drawing
DESCRIPTION:Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints).\n—\nADVISORIES\n– These events contain mature content and nudity.\n– Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification\, and sessions are not guaranteed.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– UCSC Art Department Room L-101\n—\nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nThis series occurs weekly on Tuesday evenings during fall quarter\, including the following:\n– Tue.\, Sep. 30\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Oct. 7\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Oct. 14\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Oct. 21\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Oct. 28\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Nov. 4\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Nov. 18\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n– Tue.\, Nov. 25\, 7:00–9:00 p.m. \nAdditional dates to be announced for winter and spring quarter.\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/drop-in-figure-drawing/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Yoga as Healing Series
DESCRIPTION:Yoga as Healing is an offering for students at UC Santa Cruz who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Together\, we will practice gentle body movement\, breathwork\, meditation\, and more—all from a trauma-informed lens. \nThis 7-week program is limited to 8–10 participants in each cohort and is intended to provide a safe and predictable environment for survivors to build community. \nAt the beginning of each session\, participants will have time to share their progress and personal experiences with the class. This will be followed by asana practice (physical postures)\, and the class will close with journaling\, art\, and reflection. \nCARE will provide yoga mats\, blocks\, and a blanket for each participant. You are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle for hydration. \nParticipants are welcome to join Yoga as Healing for any of the sessions; attendance at the orientation is not required. The sessions run from October 7 through November 25\, with no session on November 11. \nThis event is open to all UC Santa Cruz students. Fill out an interest form to sign up. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/yoga-as-healing-series/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Health Center (Student Health Center)\, 525 McLaughlin Drive\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:US - India: Normalization or Reset?
DESCRIPTION:The US–India relationship stands at a crossroads balancing strategic pragmatism with shared democratic values. Recent tensions over trade\, tariffs\, and technology have raised questions about whether the partnership is being recalibrated or simply cooling. \nThe 8th annual AIMA US–India Conference examines how the two countries can review their priorities and either restore normalcy or redefine the relationship for a multipolar world. \nJoin thought leaders and decision-makers from across policy\, industry\, and academia where we’ll explore one of the world’s most consequential relationships at a moment of reassessment. As the global landscape shifts and new alliances emerge\, the conference examines how the US and India can navigate economic and strategic tensions while sustaining long-term cooperation. Key sessions will address AI governance\, global conflict dynamics\, and advances in human health and biotechnology. \nAgenda \n\n2:30 pm – Registration\n3–3:55 p.m. – Inaugural Session: US India: Normalisation or Reset?\nThis opening session explores recent shifts in US–India ties and the roots of friction. With global alliances in flux\, the discussion focuses on how leaders might reframe priorities\, manage divergence\, and steer the relationship toward strategic coherence.\n4–4:45 p.m. – Panel 1: The Great AI Race: Who Sets the Rules?\nAI is rapidly transforming global power dynamics. This session delves into the emerging competition over AI standards\, access to critical technologies\, and regulatory influence. Can the world agree on common frameworks before divides become entrenched?\n4:50–5:45 p.m. – Panel 2: War Games and Peace Plans: Geopolitics of a World on Edge\nIn an increasingly polarised world\, nations are turning to pressure and deterrence over diplomacy. This discussion looks at the fragility of global order\, the risks of escalating conflict\, and the role India and the US can play in rebalancing global cooperation.\n5:50 – 6:35 p.m. – Panel 3: Biohacking Human Health\nAs scientific understanding of genetics and immunology grows\, so does the possibility of extending not just life span but health span. The panel examines how AI\, genomics\, and metabolic science are converging to personalise and revolutionise human wellbeing.\n6:35 p.m. – Networking Reception\nAn opportunity for speakers and attendees to connect informally and continue the conversation.\n\nWho should attend \nThe conference will bring together policymakers\, business leaders\, entrepreneurs\, academics\, investors\, and senior professionals to explore new strategies for US–India cooperation in a fast-changing global landscape. \nRegistration \n\nPre-registration is mandatory\nSeats are limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/8th-us-india-conference-us-india-normalization-or-reset/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Community Day: Free Admission at the Arboretum
DESCRIPTION:The first Tuesday of each month\, the Arboretum is open without charge to visitors. See dates and times UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden is open. NOTE: Due to limited parking at the Arboretum and the popularity of Community Day\, we greatly encourage visitors to carpool\, bike\, walk or use public transportation as much as possible.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/community-day-free-admission-at-the-arboretum/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Familiar Touch Screening
DESCRIPTION:This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant)\, a retired cook\, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before\, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her\, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility\, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself. Among her fellow memory care residents\, Ruth feels lost and adrift\, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen)\, she finds new ways to ground herself in her body\, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective. Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in festivals and art spaces including the New York Film Festival\, New Directors/New Films\, Mubi\, MoMA and the Performa19 Biennial. From 2021 – 2022\, she was both a Pina Bausch Fellow for Choreography and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Film/Video\, and was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Her short film trilogy\, MOVEMENT EXERCISES\, is distributed by Video Data Bank. Sarah has been working in creative aging for the last eight years\, as a caregiver to artists with dementia\, and as a teaching artist facilitating intergenerational films and workshops for older adults. FAMILIAR TOUCH is her debut feature film.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to UCSC affiliates\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by UCSC permit or ParkMobile.\n– Baskin Engineering Lot #139A and Core West are the closest parking lots to the Communications Building.\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 UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/familiar-touch-screening/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Familiar Touch Screening
DESCRIPTION:This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant)\, a retired cook\, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before\, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her\, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility\, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself. Among her fellow memory care residents\, Ruth feels lost and adrift\, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen)\, she finds new ways to ground herself in her body\, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective.  Sarah Friedland is a filmmaker and choreographer working at the intersection of moving images and moving bodies. Her work has been presented in festivals and art spaces including the New York Film Festival\, New Directors/New Films\, Mubi\, MoMA and the Performa19 Biennial. From 2021 – 2022\, she was both a Pina Bausch Fellow for Choreography and a NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Film/Video\, and was named to Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Her short film trilogy\, MOVEMENT EXERCISES\, is distributed by Video Data Bank. Sarah has been working in creative aging for the last eight years\, as a caregiver to artists with dementia\, and as a teaching artist facilitating intergenerational films and workshops for older adults. FAMILIAR TOUCH is her debut feature film.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to UCSC affiliates\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by UCSC permit or ParkMobile.\n– Baskin Engineering Lot #139A and Core West are the closest parking lots to the Communications Building.\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 UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/familiar-touch-screening-2/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott\, Department of Mathematics & Statistics\, Sonoma State University \n  \nDescription: 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. \n  \nBio: 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. \n  \nHosted by: Professor Julie Simons
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/am-seminar-applications-of-the-flow-density-relationship-in-traffic-modeling/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Western Regional Hub: Undergraduate Success Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Members of the hub’s working group focused on Undergradutate student success will meet to share ideas and strategize. \nIf you would like to be involved in the hub’s work\, please contact Richard at riraygoz@ucsc.edu
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/western-regional-hub-undergraduate-success-group-meeting/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences
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SUMMARY:Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Max Kreminski\n\nDescription:\nIt’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:\nMax 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\nWhen: Monday\, October 6 from 12:30PM to 1:30PM\nLocation: 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. \nZoom info: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98638310898?pwd=7gp003b3kifYYNvbZic23v0i2nYd3k.1\nMeeting ID: 986 3831 0898\nPasscode: 904461
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/tracing-and-shaping-paths-in-design-space/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:CM Seminar - Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Max Kreminski \n  \nAbout: 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. \n  \nBio: 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. \n  \nHosted by: Professor Christina Chung \nIMPORTANT: There will be a remote viewing room at UCSC Campus\, in E2-280. \nALSO IMPORTANT: There will be lunch served at both locations.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cm-seminar-tracing-and-shaping-paths-in-design-space/
LOCATION:Silicon Valley Campus\, 3175 Bowers Avenue\, Santa Clara\, CA\, 95054\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-10-06/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Printing Party in McHenry Library
DESCRIPTION: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! \n\n\n\nParticipants will:✔️ learn the mechanics of early printing in the West✔️ decorate the cover of a notebook that’s yours to take home! \n\n\n\nVery casual; just drop by! It takes less than a minute\, and trust us–it’s fun!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/printing-party-in-mchenry-library/
LOCATION:McHenry Library\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251006T110000
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SUMMARY:AI Frontier: Data\, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF
DESCRIPTION: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
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ai-frontier-data-agents-robots-at-techweek-sf/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold\, Lead Power Systems Engineer\, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory \n  \nDescription: 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. \n  \nBio: 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. \n  \nHosted by: Professor Soumya Bose\, ECE Department \n\nZoom Link: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/97975378707?pwd=ljcgaCfhMmhZ88Vt5dqQUBVQRjehOx.1
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ece-290-seminar-operational-cybersecurity-of-modern-power-systems/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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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. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/guided-tour-ucsc-farm/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251004T200000
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SUMMARY:Spotlight Santa Cruz - Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors at City Lights Theater
DESCRIPTION: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). \n  \nCaitlin 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. \n  \nABOUT DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS\nTake 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? \n  \nABOUT THE DIRECTOR \nCaitlin 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. \n\nABOUT CITY LIGHTS THEATER COMPANY\nSince 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. \n  \nTRANSYLVANIA AFTER DARK\nJoin 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.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spotlight-santa-cruz-dracula-a-comedy-of-terrors-at-city-lights-theater/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Performances
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SUMMARY:Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition
DESCRIPTION: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\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates.\n– Gallery hours are Mon.–Sat.\, noon–5:00 p.m.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Ongoing exhibition is Sept. 30–Oct. 25\, 2025.\n– Opening celebration is Oct. 4\, 2:00–4:00 p.m.\n– Additional events and information may be announced here \n—\nPARKING\n– Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to the event.\n– Parking is by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Refer to TAPS for more parking information. \n— \n This program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/reception-celine-grenier/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Road Trip! Light in the American West\, from Baja to the Yukon
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nOpening Reception\nOctober 4\, 2025\n1-4pm \n—– \nJoin us every Friday for Art Fridays.\nNo experience necessary. Supplies and snacks provided. \n\nSep 26 Snail Mail/Postcards\nOct 3 Souvenir Keychains\nOct 10 Stamp Magnets\nOct 17 Cyanotype Totebags/Pouches/Pencil cases\nOct 24 Candy Around The World Linocuts\nOct 31 Abstract Felt Collages\nNov 7 Phone Photos/Buttons\nNov 14 Travel Related Patches With Upcycled Materials\nNov 21 Thanksgiving Break! No Art Friday\nNov 28 Unexpected Landscape Surrealist Collage\n\nPlease note that the date and the project is subject to change.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/road-trip-light-in-the-american-west-from-baja-to-the-yukon/2025-10-04/
LOCATION:Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery\, 11 Cowell Service Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThrough 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. \n\n\n\nCome to Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day for a meal\, birthday cake\, live music\, bouquet making\, cyanotype printed birthday cards\, birthday crowns\, and more! \n  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/celebrate-sustainably-a-fall-field-day/
LOCATION:Social Sciences Lawn\, College Nine\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n  \nThrough 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!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fun-in-the-sun-fall-field-day/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Fall is for Planting!
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden.  \nThe 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. \nWe 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. \nNorrie’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.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/fall-is-for-planting/
LOCATION:Arboretum\, 122 Arboretum Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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