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ECE Seminar: From Plumes to Produce: Leveraging Atmospheric Modeling and Smart Sensing for Food Safety
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Derek Hollenbeck, postdoctoral research scholar, University of California, Merced Description: Advances in drone-based environmental sensing, atmospheric modeling, and intelligent monitoring systems are creating new opportunities for addressing emerging challenges in food safety and agricultural resilience. This talk explores how methodologies originally developed for methane emission detection and quantification could be translated toward agricultural and […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: AI for Enhancing Power Grid Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Masood Parvania, Roger P. Webb Endowed Professor, University of Utah Description: Many communities across the world are experiencing more frequent and severe extreme weather disturbances such as wildfires, heatwaves, drought, storms, rising sea levels, and flooding, which not only pose threats to human health, and the environment but also affect the ability of […]
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Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThis exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]
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The Sensory Arcade: Food as Language
Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CAAre you looking for a unique way to connect with your peers and experience art and food together? Our team is thrilled to invite you to a special, immersive event hosted by your fellow international graduate students: The Sensory Arcade: Food as Language. When & Where: Date: Monday, May 18 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Location: Graduate Student […]
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Seminar Series | Is the Farm a Digital Factory?: Labor, Leafy Greens, and the Limits of Automation with Summer Sullivan
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAHost:Madeleine Fairbairn Silicon Valley investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers are increasingly interested in agriculture as a site to disrupt and improve upon with their technologies. The nearby Salinas Valley – known as the Salad Bowl of the World – might be considered a “ground zero” for these operations of technological introduction, with some calling it the […]
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Let’s Talk
Virtual EventNeed to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 870 435 8865 Passcode: 957836 Facilitator: Niki Severson, LCSW (831) 459-2628 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with […]
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Statistics Seminar: Unifying Regression-Based and Design-Based Causal Inference in Time-Series Experiments and Crossover Experiments
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Peng Ding, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Description: I will present some recent results on unifying regression-based and design-based causal inference in time-series experiments and crossover experiments. Part I: Time-series experiments, also called switchback experiments or N-of-1 trials, play increasingly important roles in modern applications in medical and industrial areas. Under the potential outcomes framework, […]
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AM Seminar: Dissecting Complex Disease Mechanisms with Causal Inference and Deep Learning
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Dr. David A. Knowles, New York Genome Center & Columbia University Description: Many human diseases have a substantial genetic component, which association studies are increasingly capable of characterizing, empowered by ever-growing sample sizes. These associations have the potential to elucidate complex disease biology and prioritize therapeutic interventions. However, it is challenging to determine the […]
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ECE Seminar: Multiscale Sensing for Specialty Crop Systems: From Field Monitoring to Food Safety Application
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Eve Laroche-Pinel, Postdoctoral Researcher, California State University, Fresno Description: Advances in remote sensing, drone platforms, and data analytics are enhancing the ability to monitor agricultural systems at fine spatial […]
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Paul Pena, D. (CSE) – Efficient Pattern Counting in Sparse Graphs and Hypergraphs
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventPattern counting is a fundamental problem in computer science with applications in many domains. For a fixed small pattern H, we are given a large graph G and we are […]
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Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPrivacy’s Defender Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today’s Internet Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital […]
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Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThis exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]
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Let’s Talk
Virtual EventNeed to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 831 459 2572 Password: 2572 Facilitator: Erica Lopez, LMFT (831) 459-2572 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with […]
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Bai, G. (BMEB) – Long-read single-molecule chromatin architecture and its role in transcriptome regulation
Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin DriveHybrid EventSequencing technologies have revolutionized our understanding of biology, yet many existing methods require fragmentation of DNA or RNA, fundamentally limiting our ability to study these molecules in their native, intact […]
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The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty, Professors Benjamin Breen (History), Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies), and Donna Haraway (History […]
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Maram, S. (CM) – Scripture To Console: The Nexus between Religion and Digital Play
Virtual EventReligion has historically been a profound force for global mobilization, shaping geopolitics, economies, and geography. Similarly, contemporary interactive media, with video games at the forefront, has moved beyond mere entertainment […]
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Lucas, J. (BMEB) – Enabling Population-Scale Analysis of Human Centromere Diversity
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventCentromeric DNA is critical for accurate chromosome segregation and genome stability, but due to its repetitive nature, it was only recently fully included in a human reference. Rapid evolution and […]
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Mental Health First Aid Certification
Location: Register for the Zoom link Be prepared to support those around you by getting certified in Mental Health First Aid. Mental Health First Aid teaches the skills needed to […]
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Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesVisit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]
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Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesOn view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]