Audience: Faculty
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AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism
Presenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When this control fails, diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and fatty liver disease result. One key control mechanism is allosteric regulation, where a small molecule binds…
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Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures
Most optimization problems face the challenge of computing an optimum solution requiring superpolynomial time. In particular, they are classified as NP-hard problems that have no polynomial-time algorithm to date. Instead, computer scientists turn to find an approximate solution and create numerous elegant algorithms. However, in the modern era, computational environments have changed drastically, and we…
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Office of Research Faculty Town Hall
Please join us for an Office of Research Faculty Town Hall with VCR John MacMillan. The Town Hall will be held via zoom on Wednesday, April 29th from 12-1pm. In this Town Hall, the VCR and OR leadership will provide updates on the federal landscape, the centralization of research accounting, and compliance and PI responsibilities.…
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A Mouthful of Archaeology: Oral Health Disparities During the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia
Please join us on April 29th at noon for an Archaeology/Biological Anthropology lunch talk, “A Mouthful of Archaeology: Oral Health Disparities During the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia,” with Dr. Emily Smith.
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This has a name: Witchcraft, suspicion, and circumlocution in Central Angola
Please 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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QB3/QBI Pre-Hackathon Mixer
Join us for an exciting pre-hackathon mixer at University of California, Santa Cruz! Get ready to mingle, form teams, and start brainstorming ideas for your projects before the QBI Hackathon kicks off at UCSF in June 2026. Agenda 5:00 PM – Doors Open 5:30 PM – Pitch Session 6:00 PM – Networking & Mingling We…
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International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin America
Please register by Monday, May 4, 2026. If attending virtually, a Zoom link will be shared after you register. Join us for the International Research Opportunities Forum: focus on Latin America, a collaborative hybrid event hosted by the Division of Global Engagement and the Division of Graduate Studies. This forum is intended for faculty and…
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Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the bounty. When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm while supplies last. Blueberries will be available approximately through June, and strawberries will…
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Flow and Friction Symposium: Media Practices Across Global Asias
“Media Practices Across Global Asias,” a graduate-student research cluster working across the History of Art and Visual Culture and Film and Digital Media departments, hosts their first symposium titled “Flow and Friction.” The day-long symposium is comprised of four panels with presenters from UC Santa Cruz and universities further afield in the U.S. and abroad. Three of the…
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Harriet: Performing an Archive
Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment as the performance…