Lunch & Learn: Onboarding Graduate Students for Research

Join colleagues from the Office of Research Compliance Administration and Baskin Engineering on August 13, 12-1 p.m., for a practical overview of onboarding graduate students in their role as researchers. This session will cover key institutional requirements needed before students begin research activities. Speakers will highlight common pitfalls, share best practices, and offer strategies to […]

Insights from AI & Semiconductor Leaders

Join us for two dynamic online panels with industry professionals from top Silicon Valley companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Cerebras, and Altera. You’ll hear firsthand from leaders shaping the future of AI and semiconductor innovation, with dedicated discussions on each field. Schedule: 6:00–7:00 PM – Semiconductor Panel 7:00–8:00 PM – AI Panel No matter where […]

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BME 280B Seminar: Computational Precision Health & Genomic Diversity

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

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 […]

How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

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, […]

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AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

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

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Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 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. […]

Developing Personal Projects & Building Your Brand with Google

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Learn directly from successful Googlers about how to highlight the qualities, skills, and talents that describe you as a professional by building a brand profile and mission statement.

2025 Fall STEM Career & Internship Fair

Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

Here is a chance to meet tech recruiters in person! If you are interested in pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering, mathematics or research, then take advantage of this opportunity to meet recruiters from companies looking to fill various positions (both technical and non-technical). Learn more about internships and full-time career opportunities. Undergraduate students, […]

BE Climate Connectors

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Dear Baskin Engineering community, We’re excited to invite you to the kickoff of this year’s BE Climate Connectors series — a monthly gathering designed to bring together faculty, instructors, researchers, graduate students, and key staff working on climate solutions. When: Thursday, October 16 at 5:00 PM Where: E2 599 What: Wine, beer, and light snacks provided These informal monthly […]

CM Seminar – “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code”

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presented by: Daniel Temkin Description: Software art is widely accepted, but can programming languages themselves be art? The new book Forty-Four Esolangs makes this argument, collecting work by a single artist who poses code as prayer to the Greek gods, patterns of empty folders, or typed in tandem by two programmers, the rhythm and synchrony […]

Screening: Cracking the Code

Landmark’s Del Mar Theatre

Please join us for a public screening of “Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution” at the Landmark Theater on Monday, October 20.

CITRIS Aviation Prize Information Session

Join us for this virtual info session on the 2025–26 CITRIS Aviation Prize, an exciting multi-campus student competition inviting teams to design innovative solutions for the future of air mobility across the University of California. The session will cover this year’s competition guidelines, key dates and requirements, and available resources. Attendees will also have the opportunity […]

CSE Colloquium – The C++11 Concurrency Memory Model: Remaining Challenges

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Hans Boehm, Google Abstract: C++11 extended the language to include threads, defining a concurrency memory model to specify the semantics of shared variables, including “atomic” variables that can be accessed without mutual exclusion. Although this followed Posix threads by more than a decade, and the revision of the Java memory model by a few […]

BME 280B Seminar: Computational Models of Biological Systems

Physical Sciences Building Physical Sciences Building, Santa Cruz, CA

Presenter: Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica Description: Computational models are roughly categorized into two types: describing the patterns of the phenomenon or data (description-driven models) and explaining the phenomenon or data with simpler, comprehensible rules (explanation-driven models). When building a model, the choice of the mixture ingredients of […]

Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Speaker: Yiannis Kantaros, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering at WashU in St. Louis. Title: Robots that Know What They Do Not Know: Assured AI-enabled Autonomy in Unknown Environments. Time: Thursday, Oct 23rd, 2025, 2:00-3:00 pm. Location: E2-553 or Zoom. Abstract: Designing robots that navigate unfamiliar environments to execute natural language (NL) commands is a cornerstone of advanced embodied intelligence. […]

Wiki-a-thon Supporting BIPOC Scientists

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

Join us for an afternoon of creating and editing pages for BIPOC scientists, engineers, and technologists! Wikipedia overwhelmingly recognizes the achievements of white people. This wiki-a-thon works to reverse this trend, highlighting the often overlooked accomplishments of BIPOC leaders in science and technology, and ensuring that the next generation can see role models who look […]

From Campus to Career – Tara Hernandez VP, Developer Productivity at MongoDB

Jack Baskin School of Engineering 506 – Engineering 2 (E2) Engineering 2, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, United States

Join us this October 23rd for an enlightening conversation with Tara Hernandez, VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB! In this casual conversation, Tara will share lessons learned from their illustrious career in software engineering infrastructure. With stints at companies like Netscape, Mozilla, Pixar, Google, MongoDB, and more, you’ll come away with some highly useful insight on how to navigate a successful […]

Preparing for Graduate School Applications

Bay Tree Building Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Join us to get an overview of the timeline for applying to graduate school and the common application components. We will share resources on writing personal statements and statements of purpose, requesting letters of recommendation, and more. We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office […]

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