Events
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M.F.A. Exhibition for Environmental Art & Social Practice (EASP)—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]
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2026 Right Livelihood International Conference
Hybrid EventThe Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners across continents, the conference combines asynchronous learning with participatory dialogue and collaborative action. Rather than advocating specific outcomes, the conference positions education as a democratic […]
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Alumni Reunion Weekend 2026
Join your classmates back at UC Santa Cruz for Alumni Reunion Weekend, April 24–26, 2026. This annual celebration honors the pioneering classes of 1965–1976 and the mark you have left […]
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Slug48—Student Film Competition, Screening, and Awards Ceremony
The third annual Slug48 returns with a 48-hour film competition—open to all UC Santa Cruz students. A 48-hour film is one that is written, shot, edited, and all music composed within a 48-hour time period. Teams and strategies for filming may be formed ahead of time, but nothing can be written, and no footage can […]
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ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker Luat T. Vuong – Biospeculative approaches to the “needle in a haystack”: vortex encoders and hybrid optical neural-networks
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Luat Vuong, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering, UC Riverside Description: Given the growing computational demands of machine learning, how can we scale approaches for sifting through large volumes of data—including patterned or delayed information embedded as “noise”? Many computer vision applications have a strict power budget and demand robust, rapid-response, and even real-time image […]
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Quality First Coding Contest
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThis is a programming contest, but with a twist! Instead of scoring you based on your speed and solution accuracy, we score you based on your programming quality and solution accuracy. This means that instead of looking at how fast you can program a solution, we look at your number of compiles/runs instead.* The contestant that […]
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CM Seminar: Edward Wang, “Inventing a New Blood Pressure Monitor”
Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United StatesPresented by: Edward Wang Description: “What does it actually look like to invent something? In this talk, I trace the decade-long journey of turning a smartphone into a blood pressure monitor, from Seismo, which used smartphone accelerometers to measure pulse transit time, to BPClip, a dollar clip that brought calibration-free oscillometry to the fingertip, to VibroBP, which […]
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Socio-Ecological Complexity in Coffee Agroecosystems
Sanya Cowal from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link One of the most pressing global challenges considers how to combine sustainable agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation. Agricultural systems have been dramatically transformed and intensified, leading to the simplification of agricultural landscapes through increased agrochemical use, landscape homogeneity, decreased […]
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This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola
Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CAPlease join us for “This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola,” an Anthropology Colloquium with Iracema Dulley (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon), on April 27th at 3:30 in Social Sciences 1, Rm. 261 or by Zoom.
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Statistics Seminar: Active Learning for Fair and Stable Allocations
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Riddhiman Bhattacharya, Postdoc, UCSC Description: We propose an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. In contrast to prior work that assumes full feedback from all agents […]
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AM Seminar: Machine Learning in Molecular Simulations: From Free Energy to Vibrational Spectroscopy
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Marcos Calegari Andrade, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Cruz Description: In this talk, I will demonstrate how neural networks can represent the high-dimensional potential energy surfaces of […]
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Coffee with Provost Aims
Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CAWarm greetings and hot coffee are served by Provost Aims and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua each Tuesday in April. Breakfast snacks, tea, and cocoa too.
Stop by and say “hi”
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LinkedIn 101: Create A Great Profile That Gets Noticed!
Hahn Student Services Hahn Student Services, Santa Cruz, CA“Do I really need a LinkedIn profile to get hired?” The answer is YES! Employers and recruiters absolutely use LinkedIn to look for and research candidates. Come to this fast-paced and practical workshop to learn more about the basics of creating a LinkedIn profile that gets noticed and just might help you land your dream job!
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Taming Two Scorpions: Climate Science Tipping Points Meet Finance Tail Risks
Center for Adaptive Optics 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAWhen two quite different disciplines make eerily similar predictions about the future of the planet and human societies, they deserve notice. Climate scientists warn that we may be heading toward […]
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Yoga as Healing Series
Yoga as Healing is a 7-session trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness program hosted by UCSC’s CARE office. Spring Quarter classes will be held Tuesdays, 6:00–7:30 p.m. from March 31–May 12. Classes […]
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Landesman Lecture
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAHybrid EventThis evening blends science, poetry, and storytelling to explore our deepest origins and shared humanity. Tracing the cosmic formation of the elements that make our bodies, we reflect on an ancestry older than nations, borders, and labels. Through verse and story, we connect stellar history with lived experience, inviting us to see how our many identities arise from the same ancestral matter. Together, we explore how storytelling can soften divisions, cross boundaries, and remind us that we are forged from one common origin.
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Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28
Bookshop Santa CruzBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa […]
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FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Steve Lindley
Ocean Health Building McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CAPlease join us for the third talk in the FINS: Fisheries Insights Narratives and Stories seminar series featuring Dr. Steve Lindley giving his talk, “Science in support of salmon conservation in California”.
Steve Lindley worked at NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center for 29 years, retiring in 2025 as director of the Santa Cruz Laboratory and Fisheries Ecology Division, where he led the SWFSC’s salmon and groundfish research programs. A graduate of Duke University and UC Santa Barbara, Steve has broad interests in aquatic ecology, and is currently a member of the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Independent Science Board, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Independent Scientific Advisory Board and Independent Scientific Review Group, and researcher at UC Santa Cruz
Preceding the talk please join us for a networking coffee hour (snacks provided) and a student-only lunch after the talk.
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CSE Colloquium – Towards Safe and Resilient Large-scale Distributed Programming
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAPresenter: Philipp Haller, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Abstract: Distributed programming is notoriously difficult. Not only are distributed systems concurrent, they pose additional challenges including data consistency and fault tolerance. At the same time, the share of software systems that are necessarily distributed systems is growing rapidly. As a result, too many software developers are […]
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Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAThis quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!